[ZF] Finances and services

[Jim Fulton]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Jens Vagelpohl <jens at dataflake.org> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>>> We're spending money on the following:
>>>
>>> - hosting (2 physical servers at Hetzner, about $180/month)
>>
>> $180/month each? or for the pair?
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Are there 2 for redundancy? That is, are hosted services replicated
>> across them? (Is that even possible with mailman?)
>
> The $180 is the total bill from Hetzner, which includes the two servers, fees for several additional IPs, hardware RAID with mirrored drives in each server, and VAT.
>
> The two servers are for balancing server load and redundancy, but there is no service-by-service "hot standby" configuration in place, other than a simple cross-backup of all relevant data to the other server to prevent data loss and allow service deployment if really needed. So for e.g. Mailman, I could configure and run an instance on the second server in a reasonable amount of time as I have all data and configuration available on that second server.

Makes sense. Thanks.

Jim

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