I think that, before we can make a good decision regarding migration, we
should look at the resources we already have available to us. We have a
dedicated server in Finland with 32GB RAM and a fair amount of disk space
available. We have two dedicated servers generously provided for our use in
Pennsylvania, albeit one earmarked for buildbot service and the other as
yet provisioned (by us) for service.
In light of that, I want to take the server list below in reverse order.
A. Wilcox wrote:
The current systems we run on Integricloud are:
enfys (postgresql) 768 MB RAM 30 GB disk
rarity (these mailing lists) 1536 MB RAM 30 GB disk
mirrormaster 256 MB RAM 1 TB disk
bts (Bugzilla issue tracking) 512 MB RAM 8 GB disk
athdheise (Web server/proxy) 256 MB RAM 4 GB disk
wiki 512 MB RAM 8 GB disk
annwyn (Nextcloud) 512 MB RAM 100 GB disk
chatterbox (Quassel IRC) 512 MB RAM 40 GB disk
At the moment, both chatterbox and annwyn are personal resources. Leaving
aside the discussion as to whether they belong on project infrastructure,
they should be migrated to personal infrastructure unless they are intended
to be made more widely available to Adélie contributors (even if only to
the core and/or infrastructure teams).
athdheise only exists because IntegriCloud was not able to provide IPv4
addresses at a price we were able to pay. It would be retired regardless.
My understanding is that we were planning on retiring the wiki. This would
be an excellent time to do so.
I think that bts should be retired and merged with gitlab, or alternatively
it can be on the same server if retiring it is contra-indicated (e.g. due
to gitlab being unable to provide bug-tracking without a git repo
associated).
mirrormaster would need to be migrated to the Finland server regardless,
since no VPS provider provides block storage in the quantities we need at a
rate we can live with.
The mailing lists should be on hosting separate from our other
infrastructure, since it can and should be usable regardless of the rest of
our infrastructure's dispositions.
That leaves the postgresql server, which should be co-located with gitlab.
I understand that one of our goals is for our infrastructure to not be
subject to architectural issues with x86_64. In principle I agree, but
migrating the majority of our infrastructure from VPSes on a single
dedicated server to VPSes on an unknown number of servers, especially in
today's security environment, carries more risk than ensuring our
infrastructure sits on hardware we know is used only by us.