[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Linux hosting offered for Gentoo development

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Linux hosting offered for Gentoo development

[Matthew Bloch]

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Hello all,

I'm a director at Bytemark, a Linux hosting company who offer low-cost
User-mode Linux hosts, like co-location only cheaper (15ukp or $25ish per
month).  Currently we offer Debian and another popular commercial distro and
I'm keen to offer Gentoo as an option, because a few people are interested
in "rolling their own" and Gentoo seems like the most sensible option from
this point of view.  Plus my instinct is that Gentoo has recently but firmly
taken the "no. 3" spot in popularity after Debian & Redhat (or is SuSE that
popular with enthusiasts, despite the price...?  Just a guess really, flame
ye not!).

So I've been preparing a Gentoo "base system" to get ready to offer to our
customers and wondered if I could enlist a bit of help: in return we'd like
to donate two 64MB Virtual Machines to Gentoo development and we can probaby
be a bit more generous with disc space and bandwidth than our advertised
3GB/7.5GB deal if the need arises.  We'd like the people using the machines
to be active Gentoo developers, and to give us a bit of feedback on how
we're managing the systems, as well as giving us a heads-up on any new
Gentoo developments that might be relevant to our base system.  The way we
do this with Debian is to periodically evaluate a "fresh" system as produced
by our setup process and check that it's still relevant, relatively bug-free
and unsurprising to Debian users (that's us, mostly).  So we'd like it if
the people using the Gentoo machines would help us in the same way, just
take a look every couple of months to check we've not made any mistakes.

If there's a conesensus on who'd be best to manage these machines, or decide
what to do with them, I'll go with that, otherwise I guess let me know if
you're a developer, and you need hosting for a particular Gentoo-related
project, and we'll try to decide fairly.

I'm just finishing off a "first draft" of the Gentoo base system and hope
that I can get a couple of developers set up and using them within a few
days.  Let me know privately if you'd like to use them, or have some
authoratitive claim within the project to better allocate the hosting on
offer :)  Otherwise, any public suggestions on how to manage such a hosted
Gentoo service will be welcome (or suggestions as to where better put this
discussion <g>).

Thanks!

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Matthew Bloch                             Bytemark Hosting
                                  tel. +44 (0) 8707 455026
                        http://www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk/
          Dedicated Linux hosts from 15ukp ($26) per month
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