Salut,
The days of genba.ffii.org are coming to an end. A dual Pentium II 500MHz just isn't up to the job anymore. Therefor, we're going to buy a replacement server, and looking for a place to locate it.
One suggestion was somewhere inside Switzerland, for several reasons. We are therefor asking you for providers who would be willing to host a server for a civil society group, and for what conditions. (We know that it isn't always easy to be our provider, especially when spurious companies come rattling at your door because we destroyed their evil software patent plans.)
If some of you can connect me to the people who can give us offers, I would be very glad.
Thanks for listening, Tonnerre
Salut,
As many people asked pretty much the same questions, here go some answers:
* The expected traffic is between 170 and 300 Gigabyte a month, according to Jeroen. * The server itself is probably going to be 1U only, but we would probably need an external drive bay. * If 2 people could get unattended 24/7 access, that would be terribly nice. * We don't need many IP addresses, we've gone pretty well with one so far. * A textual "Hosting by" would be ok, like the "Hosted by netgate.de" we have right now. * Local backups are nice, our backup server is in the Netherlands, so sending backups right through Europe is of questionable efficiency. * A firewall and other snake oil isn't required.
(I hope I made it clear which points are MUST and which ones are MAY.)
Our budget for this has also been asked about, but this is a question I can't answer. The idea is that our board decides on the situation after we got specific offers.
Thanks for listening, Tonnerre
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Tonnerre LOMBARD