[SAC] hardware status QGIS server

(sending from the right email account now, first attempt will probably
bounce ...)

Hi All,

currently response of QGIS website and Issue trackers are not too good
(understatement).

if I understand the discussion correctly there is a hardware problem
which is hard to solve?

is it maybe wise to move QGIS website(s) to our other server for the
time being?

For the issue-tracker that is not that easy, though there is discussion
about the possibility to Github-issues, so my idea is to at least the
websites away. The rsyncing of the output takes a lot of time (3 pdf
files: 4 minutes, whole doc site: 20 minutes), so maybe we can take the
burden from the server in that way.

Is it possible to have a raw time indication for the hardware fix, that
would make our decision to move easier.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

Hi Richard,

just curious, are you also on the "osgeo4" hardware?

I thought you had a Hetzner server...

Best
Markus

On 02/03/2015 02:20 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:

Hi Richard,

just curious, are you also on the "osgeo4" hardware?

I thought you had a Hetzner server...

Best
Markus

Yes qgis.org and hub.qgis are on osgeo4. This machine had a disk fail on
it's Raid 6. Theoretically that shouldn't degrade the performance, but
maybe that's what happened.

We are ordering a replacement.

Also I spoke with OSUOSL and we are devising a plan this week to buy a
new server with the aim to fix the long standing issues with osgeo4.

Thanks,
Alex

On 03-02-15 11:20, Markus Neteler wrote:

Hi Richard,

just curious, are you also on the "osgeo4" hardware?

I thought you had a Hetzner server...

Hi Markus,

nope the web-stuff: site, docs, debian packages are still on osgeo
hardware, check:
http://hub.qgis.org
http://qgis.org
to see the slowness I mean

about one year ago we moved plugins.qgis.org and all the building
machinery (packages and sphinx for docs and site) to a Hetzner server
indeed.

That's why I'm asking for a planning, as currently the site is too slow
for normal use, and also the rsyncing from Hetzner ('qgis2') to osgeo
('qgis') takes too long.

If it takes a week to solve the hardware problem, we probably wait for
it, but it is more I think we should move the site temporarily to qgis2
(also because during a release: around 20th feb we generate a lot of
traffic).

if anybody can provide a planning that would be easier for us to decide
what to do.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

On 02/03/2015 08:47 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:

On 03-02-15 11:20, Markus Neteler wrote:

Hi Richard,

just curious, are you also on the "osgeo4" hardware?

I thought you had a Hetzner server...

Hi Markus,

nope the web-stuff: site, docs, debian packages are still on osgeo
hardware, check:
http://hub.qgis.org
http://qgis.org
to see the slowness I mean

about one year ago we moved plugins.qgis.org and all the building
machinery (packages and sphinx for docs and site) to a Hetzner server
indeed.

That's why I'm asking for a planning, as currently the site is too slow
for normal use, and also the rsyncing from Hetzner ('qgis2') to osgeo
('qgis') takes too long.

If it takes a week to solve the hardware problem, we probably wait for
it, but it is more I think we should move the site temporarily to qgis2
(also because during a release: around 20th feb we generate a lot of
traffic).

if anybody can provide a planning that would be easier for us to decide
what to do.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

I would recommend, you flip the main qgis.org over to your backup on
qgis2 for now. Hopefully diverting that traffic will leave hub
performing better as is.

Also, now is the time if QGIS has any preferences to state them for
future hardware.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Transition_Plan_2014

Thanks,
Alex