[Somehow forgot to send this to the list, I guess] on Sun Jul 17 2011, Dave Abrahams <dave-AT-boostpro.com> wrote:
Yeah, the idea of spending some money (which we've earned through BoostCon) on our own host is one of the items on the steering committee's agenda.
There are likely others, but those are the ones I'm aware of at the moment. Even though I appreciate the hard work it takes to host something like Boost. It seems that we can be better served through some other hosting. I recently found another university providing the same kind of hosting services we currently get. But in this case hosting is what they do, as opposed to something they happen do on the side. They are the Oregon State University Open Source Lab <http://osuosl.org/>. And they host a rather distinguished list of OSS projects <http://osuosl.org/services/hosting/communities> like: Apache, Debian, Drupal, Eclipse, Fedora, RPM, Slackware, and more. To me it's looking more and more that our requirements for hosting are increasing rather than stabilizing. And hence it makes sense to move to a provider than can scale, instead of sticking with one that needs to cut back.
Whoa, definitely. Is that something we can get for free?
Just looked into this a bit myself. http://osuosl.org/services/hosting/details sounds *awesome*. I'm going to inquire as to whether they would host us. Can't hurt to ask!
Well, the response was very positive, and they have resources for build slaves. They've asked us for a few pieces of information: * Will we need them to host our SVN in the near term? I think we should say yes. * What is our estimated bandwidth usage? I'm not sure how to find out. DongInn, do you have that information? I guess a significant part of our bandwidth needs are being handled by SourceForge. I can see some information, e.g. at http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/stats/timeline, but I'm a bit at a loss concerning how to turn that into an aggregate number. * "In general how much disk space and RAM do we think we'll need?" I know, this is a tough one. I think it might be possible to come up with a number that doesn't include a projection for build slaves. But how? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com