Moving services off the OSUOSL cluster
The OSUOSL cluster was setup around 2014-2015, close to 10 years. They have been reliable and very cost-effective, thanks to OSUOSL. However, for performance and for planning the future, we should start slowly moving some services off those machines. Notably, when we had incidents upgrading some VMs, restoring MySQL backups was extremely slow.
The following VMs are on OSUOSL:
- lab.civicrm.org
- chat.civicrm.org
- www-prod.civicrm.osuosl.org (mostly docs, and some services, such as community-messages)
- latest.civicrm.org (stats/pingbacks)
- test-2.civicrm.org (jenkins node)
Less critical:
- manage.civicrm.osuosl.org (used mostly as an Ansible ProxyJump host, but some servers might still be configured to use LDAP)
Not used / mostly shutown:
- cxnapp-2
- www-cxn-2
We currently have VMs also at Linode (www-prod-2) and OVH (paella and test-3). The test-3
server is dedicated to running tests, but paella runs these services:
- botdylan.civicrm.org (github bot),
- test-1.civicrm.org
- www-demo (for sandbox sites)
- www-test (not used, was for hosting a test site for civicrm.org)
Paella has around 230 GB of free disk space.
Internal reference: https://chat.civicrm.org/civicrm/pl/ocbbd61xsbg9xphwrjk4eq8wsw