[HCoop-Discuss] Cooperation among cooperatives - colocation

[Nathan Kennedy]

I agree that it is early to commit to this at the moment and we certainly
can't guarantee a time-frame right now, even though this proposal is
pretty much independent of our current setup tasks, but is late January or
especially early February really that infeasible?  I understand that
winter break will probably interrupt the tasks, but if migration isn't
underway five weeks from now we'd really be dropping the ball.  I'd
definitely like to keep this option open if we can arrange terms that are
equitable to the cooperative and acceptable to Graham.  The APM might also
be useful for us, although I'm not sure how useful given that we don't
even have a remote console right now, I'll let the admins discuss the
merits of that at the appropriate time.

Utilizing more of the cabinet than our three planned servers will greatly
reduce costs for co-op members (especially given the big setup costs that
need to be billed) and eliminate the need to rely on "pledges."

-ntk

> Graham Freeman wrote:
>
>>If we agree that this is worth pursuing, I'd ship the PE2850 rails in
>>early January (when I get back from vacation in Canada) and plan to
>>ship my server & the PDU in late Jan or early Feb.
>>
>>
> While this sounds great, I have a few things I'd like to discuss about
> it, and I'd probably give my personal vote for the bulk of your
> proposition... as I've said before, I'm requesting that all discussion
> of major new undertakings be shelved until we have all current members
> moved to our new servers.  That, unfortunately, would mean that your
> January timeline for new colocation would be infeasible, and it would
> also mean that we can't offer a concrete timeline yet at all.
>
> Managing limited volunteer attention is something that I've found to be
> key to making non-profit, entirely Internet-based undertakings as large
> as this work.  I would like all attention focused on configuring our new
> servers for now.  This meta-point is, of course, open for discussion on
> this mailing list, but I would suggest people who disagree with me to
> discuss the meta-point instead of any specific proposals.
>
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