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I did a price analysis, and a VM with comparable CPU and memory characteristics costs, per annum, at _least_ $1,000 per year, and up to $2,000 per year, for "low priority" VMs. For standard priority VMs, the price goes up to a whopping $5,098/year. Again, this is for a VM with eight cores, and 64GB RAM. Since bandwidth and power are free from MIT, buying our own server gives us way more bang for the buck, especially if we figure we'll have it for ~6-7 years.<div class="mb_sig"></div><blockquote class='history_container' type='cite' style='border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px; margin-top:20px; margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;'>
<p style='color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;'>On 5/25/2021 7:03:39 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender@gmail.com> wrote:</p><div style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif'><div dir="auto">We should investigate a cloud solution</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 25, 2021, 9:03 PM Alex Perez <<a href="mailto:aperez@alexperez.com">aperez@alexperez.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id="m_-381972180825354461__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;text-align: left" dir="ltr">
We should prioritize replacement of this host, as we have no way of knowing if and when this will happen again.<br><div></div><div><p>------ Forwarded Message --------<br>From: Michail Bletsas via RT <<a href="mailto:ml-help@mit.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ml-help@mit.edu</a>><br>Date: 5/25/2021 2:02:25 PM <br>Subject: [<a href="http://help.mit.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">help.mit.edu</a> #5653040] Sugar Labs host Justice is offline <br>To: <a href="mailto:aperez@alexperez.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">aperez@alexperez.com</a>, <a href="mailto:ibiam@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ibiam@sugarlabs.org</a><br></p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The host was completely frozen. I powercycled it and it seems to be up now.
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<br>On Sun May 23 20:51:31 2021, <a href="mailto:aperez@alexperez.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">aperez@alexperez.com</a> wrote:
<br>> MIT supportOne of our two hosts in the old MIT lab, justice, has been
<br>> offline since 2021-05-22 01:45:20. Neither its management/IPMI
<br>> interface, nor the main host, is responsive to ping, so it seems
<br>> like this may be power-related. Perhaps a PSU has failed? The other
<br>> adjacent host, freedom, is fully functional.
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<br>> aperez@freedom:~$ ping <a href="http://justice.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">justice.sugarlabs.org</a>
<br>> PING <a href="http://justice.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">justice.sugarlabs.org</a> (18.27.196.12) 56(84) bytes of data.
<br>> ^C
<br>> --- <a href="http://justice.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">justice.sugarlabs.org</a> ping statistics ---
<br>> 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms
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<br>> aperez@freedom:~$ ping <a href="http://justice-mng.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">justice-mng.sugarlabs.org</a>
<br>> PING <a href="http://justice-mng.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">justice-mng.sugarlabs.org</a> (18.85.44.62) 56(84) bytes of data.
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<br>> If anyone can put eyes on this on Monday, it would be greatly
<br>> appreciated.
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<br>> Thanks,
<br>> Alex Perez
<br>> Sugar Labs
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