On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:15:03AM -0700, Anthere wrote:
The machines offered are:* One 4U 6 CPU Xeon 750 with 1GB of RAM* One 4 CPU Xeon 700 with 2GB of RAM* One 6U 8 CPU Xeon 900 with 16GB of RAM and 2 SCSI drive max (which might work as a web server box immediately)* 3 Celeron 600 1U with 20G/ide and 128M of memory.
There were a lot of discussion on irc these days about these servers and many people got involved to determine what would be best doing.
First we decided to accept the offer :-) The 6 servers will be picked up 2 french contributors, Med and Cereal Killer on thursday. There will be a small shipping cost from Grenoble (the city where the servers come from) to Paris, which will be taken by the WMF.
Med will install the Celerons. They will have a memory upgrade (the WMF will pay for this).
Yann has found us a hosting company ready to host the three squids for free, http://lost-oasis.fr/ :-)
The three bigger servers will be shipped from Paris to Florida. We are currently trying to find cheap shipping cost. Any help/suggestion for *cheap* shipping is most welcome. We'd prefer a company with good credentials, but there is no requirement in terms of shipping speed, so we might be able to find a good price. Please, help us if you know a good shipping solution.
Why won't we take advantage of the opportunity and place the servers somewhere in Europe ? It would greatly speed up things for European users.