From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What ARM hardware should we buy and where should we host it?
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 23:28:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878t436a6g.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7oj25j5.fsf@aikidev.net>
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:
> On 2018-09-03, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> - We need to be able to restart the machine remotely. If members of the
>> Guix project have no physical access to the hosting site, this can be
>> done via remote-controlled power supply or similar.
>>
>> We are looking for volunteers who could either host a machine at home or
>> in a data centre that they could get emergency access to.
>>
>> One system that looks promising for co-location is the Softiron
>> Overdrive 3000 (a rack-mounted ARM server.) A system suitable for
>> hosting at home is the Softiron Overdrive 1000. If you know of other
>> machines that would be suitable for our purposes, please let us know!
>
> For what it's worth, in my experience I don't think the Overdrive 1000
> can be remotely power-cycled without physical button-pushing, at least
> out of the box... maybe there's a workaround or getting a power supply
> that somehow supports this...
The two Overdrive 1000 machines that we have are currently hosted by
volunteers in their homes, so this is not generally a problem for us in
practice. It would be inconvenient for co-location hosting, though.
--
Ricardo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-14 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-03 11:37 What ARM hardware should we buy and where should we host it? Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-03 16:28 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-09-14 21:26 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-14 22:02 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-09-03 17:59 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2018-09-03 18:11 ` Steve McIntyre
2018-09-04 18:03 ` Leo Famulari
2018-09-05 0:05 ` Steve McIntyre
2018-09-11 21:33 ` Andreas Enge
2018-09-14 21:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-15 13:42 ` Andreas Enge
2018-09-14 20:22 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2018-09-14 21:28 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
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