[57north-discuss] Hosting servers

[Tony Travis]

Hi,

Brexit and Covid-19 have wreaked havoc on my business plans with Luca in 
Italy and I'm reconsidering if I should ship six servers that I've built 
to Italy or host them here in Scotland?

The servers are Dual 8-core (16 thread) Opteron 6380 + 128GiB RAM, OS on 
a 500GB SSD RAID1 and 4 at 8TB on an LSI9211-4i with an LSI9211-8i to allow 
for expansion of another 8 at SATA3 disks.

I discussed this briefly with Iain and Tom, but I would welcome any 
ideas or suggestions: Plan 1 is to host them in my garage, which I've 
done before - I've just contacted Converged to see if they can provide 
FTTP here, but I'm not optimistic (currently I'm on PlusNet FTTC/VDSL).

Is it a realistic proposition for me to stike a deal with the Hackspace, 
where, for example, 57North hosts my servers in the Space in return for 
me providing login accounts and free VM's to 57North members?

I talked to Tom about running OpenStack on these servers as a Hackspace 
project, but just now it runs Ubuntu-MATE 20.04 LTS and LizardFS SDS.

Just asking ;-)

   Tony.

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