Hey everyone
I'm very sorry to report that the server hosting company that have provided our free hosting solution for a long time now has run into some economic difficulties and has had to downscale their server park. As a result I come with some bad news. I've received a notification today that either he needs to start charging some cash for the server hosting, or the server will be shut down on October 9th, 23:00 GMT+2.
I checked out some similar services, and found that OVH offers a server hosting solution (VM-based as well) where it would cost $26.99 per month for these specs: OpenStack KVM,SLA 99.99%,2 vCore(s),3.1 GHz,4 GB RAM,50 GB,High Availability (Ceph)
The offer we have been given is to retain the current server at a minimum of $20, a maximum of $25, per month (Which, given our available specs and resources, which is superiour to the OVH server, is a very generous offer).
Now, there may be someone in the community who is willing and have the opportunity to step up and take over the hosting - which is of course a great idea. But if there isn't, would the members of the community be willing to chip in a buck or two each month to pay for this? I can set up a specific Patreon or something for it, and I will of course make sure that the invoices and receits for payment are available for everyone to see for transparency. The server would be invoiced to me personally, so I would have to pay it personally, and report back to you guys.
If someone is willing to take over the hosting instead of a community payment service, the current server can be stopped, saved and downloaded as a VMWare disk image, and I can provide the image for anyone who wants it - just for the record.
I'm very sorry to report that the server hosting company that have provided our free hosting solution for a long time now has run into some economic difficulties and has had to downscale their server park. As a result I come with some bad news. I've received a notification today that either he needs to start charging some cash for the server hosting, or the server will be shut down on October 9th, 23:00 GMT+2.
I checked out some similar services, and found that OVH offers a server hosting solution (VM-based as well) where it would cost $26.99 per month for these specs: OpenStack KVM,SLA 99.99%,2 vCore(s),3.1 GHz,4 GB RAM,50 GB,High Availability (Ceph)
The offer we have been given is to retain the current server at a minimum of $20, a maximum of $25, per month (Which, given our available specs and resources, which is superiour to the OVH server, is a very generous offer).
Now, there may be someone in the community who is willing and have the opportunity to step up and take over the hosting - which is of course a great idea. But if there isn't, would the members of the community be willing to chip in a buck or two each month to pay for this? I can set up a specific Patreon or something for it, and I will of course make sure that the invoices and receits for payment are available for everyone to see for transparency. The server would be invoiced to me personally, so I would have to pay it personally, and report back to you guys.
If someone is willing to take over the hosting instead of a community payment service, the current server can be stopped, saved and downloaded as a VMWare disk image, and I can provide the image for anyone who wants it - just for the record.
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