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From: Ingo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker@kde.org>
To: kde-community@kde.org
Subject: Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 23:25:39 +0100
Message-ID: <6604807.lZecUEf6XL@breq>
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On Freitag, 12. M=C3=A4rz 2021 21:44:09 CET Carl Schwan wrote:
> Le vendredi, mars 12, 2021 7:49 PM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley@kde.org> a
> =C3=A9crit :
> > It also isn't as simple as just adding more server resources, as in some
> > cases the place something will be moving from is a donated machine, and
> > we prefer to ensure these are well utilised - meaning something needs to
> > move back there in response. We also prefer to move services as little =
as
> > possible to minimize downtime. If we were to simply add more machines,
> > then we would end up with empty donated machines - which is a waste of
> > the donation, as well as not the best use of eV resources.
>
> I'm not sure I fully understand your last point. If we add a new machine =
for
> a new service this shouldn't create an empty donated machine. I'm not
> really an expert in things related to sysadmins but looking at the price =
at
> for VPS in Hetzner that should be able to handle a service similar to
> krita-artists.org in term of storage shouldn't cost the e.V. more than =
=E2=82=AC15
> a month. I think the e.V. can afford that to provide a lively place for t=
he
> community to ask questions and discuss things related to KDE.

I'm pretty sure that neither hardware nor money is the problem. The problem=
 is=20
that each additional server increases the maintenance burden/cost. And sinc=
e=20
we are applying for the Blauer Engel certification, we should also try to=20
minimize energy consumption and consumption of resources.

Regards,
Ingo

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