Re: Discontinuing data.guix.gnu.org?

[Christopher Baines]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello!
>
> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
>
>> As previously set out, I'm planning to stop hosting the data service
>> instances this year. While I would like to stop hosting the server for
>> data.guix.gnu.org,
>
> I forgot the outcome of previous discussions, but it seems to me that
> the service itself and all the data it accumulated over the years are
> super valuable.  I would be sad to see it go!

There was a discussion back in April, but no action came directly from
it.

Just having data.qa.guix.gnu.org was discussed, and at least
concentrating on getting to a sustainable hosting situation there seemed
like a sensible priority. The longer history provided by
data.guix.gnu.org does have value though in my view.

> Is there something we can do to not lose it all?  It could be
> distributing responsibility, reducing the scope, ensuring hosting is
> managed collectively by the project, etc.  WDYT?

Since that discussion, I have disabled the database dumps and backups,
which has reduced (to 62€ per month) the hosting costs (although
obviously not having backups isn't ideal). It's possible to further
reduce the hosting costs as well by switching away from a VM to a
physical machine at Hetzner.

But yeah, given that having at least one data service instance is a key
part of keeping the bordeaux build farm running, managing the hosting
through the project seems to be the way to go. I'm just not sure how we
can get there, or what I can do to move things in that direction.

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