[Kde-games-devel] KDE4.3, a Job well done.

[Josef Spillner]

Am Mittwoch, 5. August 2009 13:30:08 schrieb Casper van Donderen:
> Well, I have an almost unused server with 100GiB monthly traffic. So we
> could make a test setup...

It would indeed be nice to have a sponsor for a server. We even had someone 
look for sponsors on Planet GNOME once and among KDE sysadmins/server people. 
So far, nobody has ever had the capacity to offer both a server and the 
hosting for a permanent server for the free desktop gaming communities. Once 
we had a server sponsoring offer (from Sun), but at the time we finally found 
a hosting possibility in a university, the person had vanished. Another time 
we had someone offering rackspace, but we lacked the server.

Just this week one of the GGZ servers is being upgraded from a tiny 3 GB 
virtual machine image to something more usable (35 GB), so for the first time 
we can offer resources instead of just begging for some, but still it would be 
nice if we had the guarantee that setting up something as complex as a 
complete gaming/social site would last for quite some time and that more 
people are involved in the maintenance in case something goes wrong.

Ideally, we could have two hosts with replicated databases. This sounds a bit 
like overkill first, but if you've ever had the situation to be hit by a 
server crash, all time invested upfront twice and thrice is certainly worth it 
and protects against credibility losses with the (fault intolerable) gaming 
communities.

Do you intend to perform an installation of the services by yourself or are 
you looking for volunteers who would get an account?

Josef