[Qgis-developer] new server

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Sun Oct 6 12:38:41 PDT 2013


As I mentioned in IRC chats I think this server is appropriate for
developer sandboxes, build machines, load balancing an other non
critical services. That way it can scale or move as necessary.

So in terms of the django,  I disagree with that being the priority to
move, it's actually running quite well now with added ram and builds
relocated. The biggest competition for resources is actually
Ruby/Passenger which last I looked was unoptimized the way mod_wsgi is.
I'll also note, that if we want to squeeze more performance out of
django we should be looking to move to uwsgi or gunicorn instead of
mod_wsgi.

In terms of docker I'm not 100% sold on the need for it outside the
context of this new server, as we can already dump an image of the
running server and move it to another service. Sure setting up scripted
deploy via puppet or chef makes sense, but that goes for the existing
config too nothing special about the vps container. I've also not seen
clear evidence that a vps container does anything more to balance
resources or keep apps in line on the same hardware. If docker is indeed
almost no overhead and divides resources then I'd be happy to put it on
the existing server to sandbox the parts on there.

Side note, I think the statement below in regards to a public non-profit
FOSS project is complete FUD. If people are keeping private or
confidential files on the servers, they shouldn't be. I encourage all
admins to use ssh key auth all the time, and we can in fact enforce that
on the current server too.

PS: Thanks for getting the hub logins to ssl.

Thanks,
Alex

On 10/06/2013 03:05 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Good. It is a welcome move. Our current servers are a bit too overloaded.
> 
> Hetzner is a good company. I also have my servers at Hetzner. It is a
> good price/value ratio and reliable. It is also good to know that the
> data is stored in Germany, where they have better privacy protection and
> no NSA/GCHQ access by default.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> Am 06.10.2013 09:53, schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde:
>> Hi PSC/Devs,
>>
>> last week we ordered and received a new server at Hetzner.
>>
>> It's a rental server, paid per month via Paypal.
>>
>> Specs:
>> Intel® Core™ i7-4770 Quadcore Haswellincl. Hyper-Threading Technology
>> RAM 32 GB DDR3 RAM
>> Hard Drive 2 x 2 TB SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 rpm
>> HDD (Software-RAID 1)
>> Class Enterprise
>> Connection 1 Gbit/s-Port
>> Guaranteed Bandwidth 200 Mbit/s
>> Backup Space 100 GB
>> Inclusive Traffic 20 TB*
>>
>> Juergen seeded this server with Debian Stable/Wheezy 7
>> The kernel is upgraded to 3.10 to be able to use docker/lxc:
>> uname -a
>> Linux qgis2 3.10-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.10.11-1~bpo70+1
>> (2013-09-24) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> It is running LVM being able to resize disks as needed.
>>
>> IP: 144.76.174.102 /  2a01:4f8:200:5265:: / 64
>> Only way to connect is via ssh with public key access (password disabled)
>>
>> Currently only Tim, Juergen en myself have access. Please ask access to
>> this machine via the PSC mailinglist.
>>
>> We have to make a structured plan on how to use this machine.
>>
>> First (tim wants to do) is fix the django-app running feeds, plugins
>> etc, en move it into an docker-container there.
>>
>> Then.... (as said, we have to make a plan).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Duivenvoorde
>>



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