[SAC] Server host quotes

[Jason Birch]

Tyler,

The contact info for Peer1 is on the quote.  If you need it again, send
me an email directly.

Jason 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tylermitchell at shaw.ca] 
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 09:42
To: sac at sac.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [SAC] Server host quotes
Importance: High


On 8-Nov-06, at 12:08 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> The Peer1 quote seems to be reasonable, assuming we do need two 
> servers to get started. I missed a good part of discussions about the 
> transition plan a few weeks ago, so I'll just assume that we do know 
> that we need two servers and that someone has a clear plan for how 
> they are going to be configured and used. With respect to the hardware

> firewall, my experience is that we can have very reliable software 
> firewalls with iptables. However the call to have a hardware firewall 
> or not should probably be made by the administrator who will setup and

> manage the servers in the long run and who will be responsible for 
> keeping them up 24x7 for the years to come. Same for backup system I 
> guess.

Shawn - your thoughts on this?  From talking last week, I believe you
were in favour of the firewall and some tape backup.  and that you
wanted the 2nd server for failover and load balancing.

Jason - seems we have chosen the provider?  What can I do to help
finalise this deal so Shawn has public infrastructure to work on?

Tyler