From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: What ARM hardware should we buy and where should we host it? Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 23:28:23 +0200 Message-ID: <878t436a6g.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87lg8izu99.fsf@elephly.net> <87a7oj25j5.fsf@aikidev.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40467) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0vdm-0002EB-AZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:28:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0vdh-0001aQ-7l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:28:38 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21057) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0vdg-0001ZR-Tc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:28:33 -0400 In-reply-to: <87a7oj25j5.fsf@aikidev.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Vagrant Cascadian Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Vagrant Cascadian 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