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...


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  vagrant