[sf-lug] sf-lug site & hardware

[Michael Paoli]

Just an FYI update.

So, my (overly optimistic) theoretical timeline - was hoping to have
the sf-lug site relocated onto the higher availability hardware
(notably not on VM on my laptop) by around 2015-11-15 or so.  Have
adjusted the target timeline a bit, after some considerations (and also
being relatively busy with other stuff too).  Anyway, one thing I
didn't fully take into account earlier - fan noise.  That system that
was in the colo - 1U unit, is comparatively noisy (I've gotten a bit
spoiled mostly not listening to fan noise of such volume - even though
it uses a fan and airflow design that mostly avoids tiny 1U high-RPM
fan(s) - it's still noisier than most typical desktop systems - but
less noisy than many typical 1U servers).  So, ... I adjusted my
(theoretical) plans a bit.  With wakeonlan, qemu-kvm live migration,
and wee bit of infrastructure (which I was mostly planning to do
anyway), and small bit of scripting, I could arrange to have the VM
running on the noisier (but higher availability) hardware, mostly only
when it wouldn't be running on my laptop at home.  And with live
migration, the migration would be effectively "invisible" to the guest
VM host itself, its state, connections to it and sessions on it, etc.
Anyway, fair bit closer to having that plan fully implemented.  Current
target timeline for completion, by 2015-11-29, or at least not later
than 2015-12-13.  May be fair bit sooner.  I'll update once it's in
place and fully operational (did get a fair chunk of related
infrastructure completed yesterday and today).

references/excerpts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_migration

> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: Re: sf-lug site & hardware
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:01:41 -0800

> FYI, this morning Jim Stockford and I did retrieve the physical server
> host from the colo, upon which, up until some months back, the sf-lug
> web site was running.  So, that improves the hardware resource
> situation.  I'm guestimating I'll have the sf-lug website again running
> on VM atop this hardware by sometime this weekend or so - that should
> improve the availability a fair bit (notably the sf-lug website then
> won't go down when my personal laptop goes down, offline, or out the
> door from home).
>
> Thanks Jim!
>
>
>> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>> Subject: Re: Have you guys thought about http://www.freelists.org/  
>> (hosted ...)
>> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:26:25 -0800
>
>> would be down or that it wasn't (relatively) high availability (at least
>> compared to virtual machine running on my personal laptop - which does
>> have the sf-lug site go out when my laptop goes out ... hopefully that
>> situation will be improved in near future ... waiting on some resources
>> to be able to do that.)
>>
>> references/excerpts:
>> http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2015q4/011454.html
>> http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2015q4/011441.html
>>
>>> From: Shane Tzen <shane at faultymonk.org>
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 15:56:14 -0800
>>> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] updated/upgraded: SF-LUG - operating system  
>>> presently hosting
>>> To: Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>>> Cc: SF-LUG <sf-lug at linuxmafia.com>
>>>
>>> Have you guys thought about http://www.freelists.org/about.html ?
>>>
>>> Looks like various LUGs are hosted -
>>> http://www.freelists.org/cat/Linux_and_UNIX
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Michael Paoli <
>>> Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's been updated/upgraded:
>>>> from: Debian GNU/Linux 7.9 (wheezy)
>>>> to: Debian GNU/Linux 8.2 (jessie)
>>>>
>>>> http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2015-October/002989.html
>>>>
>>>> Still definitely *not* high availability though (alas, still sits atop
>>>> a virtual machine on my *laptop*!).
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully in not too horribly distant future (like *real soon*), the
>>>> physical box the site was earlier running upon will be successfully
>>>> retrieved - once that happens, some high(er) availability options
>>>> become possible.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if you notice anything awry (notwithstanding the less than
>>>> high availability).
>>>>
>>>> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>>>>> Subject: It's alive*!: Re: SF-LUG - DNS, web site, ..., etc.
>>>>> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 03:10:26 -0700
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, have taken the liberty ...
>>>>> it's alive* ...
>>>>> the [www.]sf-lug.{org,com}
>>>>> websites are available again.