Hi all,
As mentioned at one of the recent board meetings, I'm going to send out
a request next week for sponsors to provide hosting services for us.
Below is the initial draft of the request, which I'd appreciate your
feedback on.
I've collected a list of places to send it, and will also post to
inkscape-announce@ and inkscape-devel@. If you can think of additional
places, please let me know.
Bryce
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== Would you be interested in hosting Inkscape as a sponsor? ==
Inkscape is seeking to improve its online service hosting. To this end
we're soliciting proposals for donation/sponsorship of hosting services
for the project.
The Inkscape Project is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization that
develops and maintains the popular Inkscape vector drawing software,
provided freely to millions of artists, designers, and other drawers of
lines.
If you would be interested in sponsoring us through a donation of
hosting service, we would be happy to add you to our sponsors page, with
a mention & link on our main website's footer. Proposals can be sent to
me as contact point. Our sysadmin team will review them and make a
recommendation to the Inkscape board, who will make the final
determination in about a month's time.
== Background ==
We currently have various services hosted at a number of different
locations with widely varying administrative capacities. We wish to
consolidate these services to one platform where they can be centrally
administered.
Services high on our priority list to migrate soon include mailing
lists, Mattermost, and wiki. Bug tracking, web forum and gitlab are
potential secondary priorities. Our Django-based main website may also
be worth consolidating at some point in the future.
Ideally we'd like two distinct hosts, with one serving as primary and
the other as a backup/spare, preferrably in geographically distinct
areas (e.g. Europe and Canada).
== Requirements ==
Minimum Desired
Required Ideal
CPU: dual core quad core
RAM: 4 gb 256 gb
Storage: 500GB >1 TB (HW RAID-1)
HDD SDD
Bandwidth: 1 TB/mo 2 TB/mo
OS: Any linux Ubuntu 16.04
* We prefer an actual machine (metal) rather than virtual hosting.
* UPS power backup
* 24h support at the datacenter -- A hardware technician would need to
be available for handling hardware issues, to do OS
installation/reinstallation, hook up KVM/IP if available, and to
investigate faults that can't be diagnosed remotely.
* Server would be under the administrative and technical management of
the Inkscape admin team (about 6-8 people). We would have root access
to the machine for doing system updates and to install/configure
software and services.
* We expect to be managing/maintaining our software ourselves. Items we
anticipate migrating to this include (in rough order of priority):
+ Mailman3
+ Mattermost
+ Wiki (mediawiki currently)
+ Forum (e.g. hosting for inkscapeforum.com)
+ Bug tracker (TBD)
+ Gitlab
+ Other project management tools
+ Website / Django
* Inkscape does not handle anything particularly controversial. No
copyright infringing materials, nothing political, nothing
intentionally offensive. Our windows binary has been false-positived
by virus software in the past, but we clear this up ourselves.
* Currently our website hosting is sponsored and managed by OSUOSL.
It's a root access virtual machine running postgresql, memcached,
nginx and the django site itself. Memory usage is 450MiB per web host
thread, currently 2 threads, plus 500MB for postgresql and 500MB for
memcache. CDN is hosted by Fastly, currently serving 32TB per month
for Inkscape (1:1.5 ratio US:EU, so more EU hits overall). There's
enough dynamic content that we still see a decent load (1/2 TB/mo) on
the server, notably around major releases (once every year or two); we
are continuously tweaking optimizations.
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