Hi guys, The LFS server recently passed its five year mark. While there are still no indications yet of hardware problems or degraded performance due to aging components yet, I've started to pro-actively look at options to replace the server. After all, it's better to be pro-active than reactive in these cases.
A second reason for doing this is that the server is currently co-located in Calgary, AB, Canada but I myself don't live near Calgary anymore. A couple of months ago I moved to Winnipeg, MB. If anything were to happen to the server now, I'd have to fly out to Calgary to deal with it. I'm sure I don't have to explain the issues with that. I'm looking at two ways of dealing with the LFS server: 1) Acquire a new server and co-locate it here in Winnipeg. 2) Turn the LFS server into a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with some company which won't be restricted to Winnipeg in that situation because we wouldn't be responsible for the hardware. I'm awaiting responses from a couple of companies in Winnipeg that offer co-location services. When I have all the numbers I'll put together a financial picture for both options and go from there. Regardless of the option chosen, there will be a period of migration where we move services from the current server to the new one. It shouldn't cause too many headaches in terms of outages and extended downtime. It won't be 100% unavoidable either so this will just serve as a head's up that it'll be coming down the pipe soon. This period of time where we discuss migrations would be a good time for us to discuss any wholesome changes we might like to implement. We can start off with a new server and a clean slate instead of blindly replicating the current setup and methods without any thought to it. As always I'm open to any and all suggestions regarding both the server itself and the aforementioned potential changes that could be implemented. -- Gerard Beekmans -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
