2017 hosting brainstorm

CiviCRM OSUOSL cluster

Host	RAM	CPUs	Disk	Linode	gCloud	OVH VM	Notes
chat.civicrm.org	2 GB ram	2 CPUs	~ 5-10 GB data	$20	$39.25	$7	Calculated using a 20 GB disk. On OVH: 8 GB ram, 2vCores
manage.civicrm.osuosl.org	2 GB ram (could be 1 GB?)	2 CPUs	less than 5 GB data	$5	$20	$3.49
www-prod.civicrm.osuosl.org	8 GB ram	2 CPUs (should be 4?)	50 GB disk	$40	$86.70	$33.49	At OVH: 8 GB with 4vCores on vps-cloud, otherwise 2 vcore limit ugh.
www-demo.civicrm.osuosl.org	4 GB ram	2 CPUs	25-30 GB disk	$20	~ $40	$13.49	Should be on padthai.
java-prod.civicrm.osuosl.org	6 GB ram	2 CPUs	6 GB	$40	$82.24	$33.49	RAM could be reduced to 4 GB if no confluence
lab.civicrm.org	4 GB ram	3 CPUs	25 GB disk	$40		$33.49	Assuming we'll need 6 GB RAM.
latest.civicrm.org	3 GB ram	2 CPUs	5 GB disk	$10		$7	RAM can be reduced to 2 GB (or even 1 GB)
test-ubu1204-1.civicrm.osuosl.org	8 GB ram	4 CPUs	disk?				padthai/OVH?
www-cxn-2.civicrm.osuosl.org	1.5 GB	2 CPUs	5 GB disk	$10	$35	$7	linode=1core
svn.civicrm.osuosl.org	2 GB ram	2 CPUs			Could be converted to git?
✗ log.civicrm.osuosl.org
✗ test-debian6-1.civicrm.osuosl.org
✗? test-ubu1204-2.civicrm.osuosl.org
✗? test-ubu1210-1.civicrm.osuosl.org

Linode: $185/month ($2220/year)
- Needs confirmation: is it possible to have 2 GB ram with 2 cores? (not just one)
Google-Cloud: stopped counting around $370/month
- Does not currently support IPv6, little control on IPs.
- Did I miscalculate the prices? They seem crazy expensive. Calculated using the "new instance" form.
- OVH "public cloud" has similar-ish (-20%) prices to google-cloud. So what they're selling is the flexibility of an elastic VM?
OVH VM: $138.50/month ($1662/year)
- RAM/cpu options are limited, especially for high ram. "public cloud" options are expensive.
- We might be able to save $13.50/month by moving www-demo to padthai
OVH physical server similar to padthai: $115.99$/month ($1392/year)
- EG-32 server, 32 GB ram, 4c/8t, 2x450GB SSD soft-raid
- or SP-64 (64 GB ram, E3-1270v6 4c/8t, 2x450 GB SSD soft-raid)
- higher risk (hardware fail? although RAID disks, and OVH can do hardware swaps rather quickly)
- requires knowledge of kvm/libvirt, zfs, java-kvm-like-its-1995 (remote console)
- but uses the same setup as padthai (which probably won't go away) and SymbioTIC servers.
- we could do zfs syncs between servers, for hourly backups.
- more CPU/RAM allocation flexibility, we'd still have a bit of free space for growth at the same price, but then we bump to another +115$/month if/when we need more VMs.
- although SP-64 seems like a good deal. Despite being 4c/8t, it's a good CPU and lots of RAM.

Host	RAM	CPUs	Disk	Linode	gCloud	Notes
backups-1.civicrm.org
cxnapp-2.civicrm.org		1 GB ram, 1 CPU, 5 GB disk
test.civicrm.org
www-cxn-1.civicrm.org		not managed, but www is monitored by icinga
✗? test-ubu1204-3.civicrm.org		130.211.191.179