Save teamocuk.co.uk?

Berserker · 18 Dec 2018 at 08:18

Unfortunately, recent events mean that the server on which teamocuk.co.uk is hosted is reaching end-of-life. I can't afford to continue hosting it myself (cost c.£1,000/year). I've looked into putting ads on it (yuk!) to try to help, but that's also a no go. I was looking to host it from home, and acquired the hardware for it, but after a month-long internet outage, I don't trust my connection.

Does anyone else here have the resources to host it themselves? Requirements are pretty basic by modern standards:
- 4-core CPU (any from the last 10 years will do).
- 8 GB RAM.
- 2x 1TB disks in RAID-1 (software RAID is fine), or similar capacity in RAID-5.
- Recent Linux (Currently CentOS 6, needs at least CentOS 7 to run the off-site backup software I use, but doesn't have to use that).

The software is largely self-maintaining once set up. I just give it a kick once every few months to free up space (I can probably automate even more of that). It's only suffered a catastropic DB crash once in the 13 years its been running (due to a power failure).

PS - since I have the hardware, I'd be happy to donate it. Would need someone with transport. It's a Dell rack server so ideally suited to a server room, but unfortunately I don't have the rails for it (or the front bezel, which someone conveniently lost!)

Berserker · 18 Dec 2018 at 21:02

Wish I could do that! (we have ludicrous amounts of VM hardware, but the ones that sit outside the firewall are heavily restricted - and rightly so)

One other important bit - bandwidth. It's about 1GB/day up/down Mon-Sat, plus 20GB up on Sundays (DB backup).

I'll be in touch in the New Year to figure out how we make this work. I can manage another month on the old server (I've set up temporary backups to cover for the backup software that died a couple of weeks ago).

Berserker · 20 Dec 2018 at 22:51

Thanks for all the help, and how you doin'?

I'm pretty much out of the crunching game now. About the only PC left was the Team OcUK server, and obviously that isn't either now.

Anyway, thanks to Biffa, I no longer have to worry about hosting this myself, so can offload the Dell R5500 I acquired and make some room!

Berserker · 30 Dec 2018 at 19:48

2TB?! That's suitably generous - I probably won't upload the 500GB+ of historical data back to 2004/5 that's on the old server, unless you want me to.

Berserker · 22 Jan 2019 at 21:18

No aliens were searched for on this hardware.

They may have been searched for on other hardware.