[SAC] Virtualbox on Osgeo6

[Regina Obe]

>On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 09:32:17AM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> On Sep 26, 2017 8:57 PM, "Sandro Santilli" <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've tried installing Vagrant and Virtualbox on OSGeo6,
>> ..
>> 
>> What is the risk that we overload osgeo6?
>> 
>> Honestly, I see it a bit critical to make such experiments on our 
>> production machine which delivers a lot of important services.

> I actually agree on this, so I'm still interested in knowing the cost of getting a new machine. The same applies IMHO to creating new VMs (for example for the long-time requested one to host GitLab). Saying "we'd create a 
> VM on osgeo6"
> sounds dangerous to me, when "osgeo6" is hosting (outside of any virtualization) the mail server and mailing lists...

> --strk;

On that thought, would it be possible to set aside money for some cloud hosted servers.

They are much easier to create, fuss with and experiment with and delete when you are done with them.   Since many of those have 24/7 support, we don't have to schedule around someone's schedule if we want to do something dangerous.
When we are done experimenting figuring out what exactly is needed how much load etc, then we put it on one of our osgeo servers or not.

Like for example I'd like to mess with gitea, port our stuff from gogs, see how it goes, see what I need to do to improve speed.  I really don't want to worry about messing up existing infrastructure.

Thanks,
Regina