[SAC] 2009 Budget / A New Server?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> In the preliminary board budgeting process we included a line item of $2500
>> to purchase a new server to be hosted at Telascience.   Markus can perhaps
>> add a bit, but I believe the idea is to provide a more muscular server that
>> we could move some of the stuff now hosted on xblade14-2.
> 
> We have the situation that xblade14-2 is regularly saturated (Apache takes
>> 1min to respond, ssh login as well). The blade is currently used at
> least by:
> 
> - buildbot
> - www.GDAL.org
> - GRASS.osgeo.org
> - remotesensing.org
> - QGIS.org (with CMS)
> 
> Hence the wish to move some of these to a more powerful machine.

Markus,

I would note that given sufficient manpower, we can migrate some of
the buildbot slaves to xblade11-2 (buildtest.osgeo.org).  However, we
seem to have a limited number of people with the expertise and time to
do this migration.  I think this would help alot.

Best regards,
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