Improve the hosting infrastructure

[Patrik Jansson]

Pablo Buiras presented some problems at the Software Technology division meeting: http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/cse/pmwiki.php/ST/ST2014-05

The first of these (improving the hosting infrastructure) does not seem to exist as an "issue" yet in this tracker so I am now adding one.

[Patrik Jansson]

Some input from Arne Linde: Vi behöver veta vad som krävs. Sedan kan jag ordna så att en server blir inköpt.

En server kostar 5-10kkr

Vilket är billigare än en virtuell server via ITS. Det är på en sådan som Fire1 går.

/Arne

[Patrik Jansson]

And more recently Arne wrote: "Risken är att den (server för Fire-2) medför höga kostnader för drift och underhåll."

We need a concrete suggestion for what is needed so that we can get a concrete quote (price) and then make a decision.

[JonasDuregard]

Is hosting the system on the same machine as Fire-1 an option? After Fire-2 is in place I assume Fire-1 will be discontinued fairly quickly.

[Gregoire Detrez]

I have some news about this.

I talked with Rune and it turned out that the department had a spare servers that they bought as par of a set for a cheap price at some point. He agreed to let us use this server with the condition that we should take care of the maintenance.

I set-up the server and we will be test-driving it in the database course during lp3. If everything goes well, we should be able to use it for all the courses in lp4.

This should improve the situation a bit as the server is in a proper bay, not under a desk ;-)