[SAC] QGIS servers

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Hi Alex,

thanks for your thourough answers, some comments from my side:

>> We have been investigating 'Dockers' to ease this separation, and make
>> https://www.docker.io/
> ah very similar to vagrant and other VM creation
> tools. Copying a whole VM in and out is not hard.

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Vagrant is about juggling 
around VM's, while Docker is more lightweight, more like separating 
environments with cgroups or virtualenv (but then on OS level)?

Pzl have a look [0] and [1] and correct me if wrong.

>> I also investigated the costs of running a rented server (eg at hetzner:
>> 2x2Tb disk, 32 gb RAM, i7-8core etc for 49 euro).
>>
> 1 year of hosting on this = purchase price of such a machine.

Is this really so? 600 euro (incl 19% tax) for such a server? I would 
think you needed at least two years (but then not having the support and 
harddisk guarantees).

To me it seemed that it was hard to win from this Hetzner guys, but I'm 
fine with OSGeo providing such a server. It's not that we want to flee 
from the flock or so. Should I officially 'order' it here? Please let me 
know the exact costs (for specs see [2] as an example), and how to 
proceed then.

Anyway, first let's upgrade current VM, so I can split up the 
documentation/website builds from the serving dirs (currently there is 
no diskspace for this).

Regards and thanks for the work you do here,

Richard Duivenvoorde

[0] 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16647069/should-i-use-vagrant-or-docker-io-for-creating-an-isolated-envinronment
[1] 
https://www.slideshare.net/dotCloud/docker-at-djangocon-kencochranedockertalk2013
[2] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40