[Consortium] We have to move!

[Jeremy Jongepier]

Dear all,

As of February 1st 2023 all linuxaudio.org data has to be moved away 
from our current hoster. Out of courtesy it has been running for free on 
Fuga's Openstack platform for almost 5 years (for which I owe them 
endless gratitude, thanks Fuga!) but the region linuxaudio.org is 
running in is going to be removed. We are offered a very fair discount 
when we are to move to another Fuga region but unfortunately that would 
still get rather expensive, despite the discount.

So I'd like to propose moving to Hetzner. I'm already backing up the 
complete linuxaudio.org archive in their object store and it would be 
relatively easy to spin up an instance or two (one for web and one for 
mail) at Hetzner and couple it to the existing object store. Hetzner is 
also one of the very few providers that allow for running your own mail 
server which would also mean we would be freed from our current mail 
gateway (which we don't have control over, it's a closed source black 
box, iow, I don't like it :D).

Drawback will be that it's going to cost us. It won't be much, in the 
order of €50 to €100 per year, and personally I won't mind to pay in 
advance for the moment, I already do so for the linuxaudio.org domain 
name and the current backups. But maybe we could think about setting 
something up for donations.

Feedback? Suggestions? Objections? Other ideas? Shoot! Bear in mind 
though that I'm pretty determined to move to Hetzner, they're reliable, 
cheap, easy to work with and EU based.

Best,

Jeremy
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