Re: [Consortium] We have to move!

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 _______________________________________________ Consortium mailing list Consortium(a)lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/consortium