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Community-driven Virtual Private Servers& more ...

T-Dose 2009 – 20091003“Evolution, Revolution, Love”

Harmen P. (Murf) de Ruiter

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Soleus in 26 slides

* Virtual Private What!?* Soleus, a brief intro* Evolution* Revolution* Love

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Virtual Private What!?

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Virtualisation (Xen)

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Soleus, a brief intro

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Who, What, Why & How?Who?

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What?A community, a platform

Why?Because it was not there, yet

How?Virtual Private Servers & more...

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Facts & Figures

* 80+ members* 90% tech* 10% non-tech

* 70 VPSes* 62 members* 8 service

* Hardware* 2 servers* 1 switch

* Network* /24* 300MBit Uplink

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Evolution

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Early Infrastructure

Our Server

ColoClue Internet

Backups(Off-Site)

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Early Setup* 18 VPSes* Hardware

* Single IBM x345* 2x2.4GHz Xeon* 8GByte Memory* 4x36GByte + 2x300GByte OS/storage

* Software* CentOS 5* Xen 3.x* Local disk-images

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Current Infrastructure

Front-End(Memory/CPU)

ColoClue Internet

Backups(Off-Site)

Back-End(Storage)

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Current Setup* 80 VPSes max* Hardware

* HP Proliant DL580 G3 (Front-End)* 4x3GHz Xeon* 42GByte Memory

* Chenbro (Storage)* 2.4GHz Xeon* 2x250GByte OS + 12x500GByte storage

* Software* Debian 5 (Lenny)* Xen 3.x* Open iSCSI* md

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Near Future Infrastructure

ColoClue Internet

Backups(Off-Site)

Back-End(Storage)

Front-End(Memory/CPU)

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Near Future Setup* 200+ VPSes* Hardware

* HP Proliant DL580 G3 (Front-End)* 4x3GHz Xeon* 64GByte Memory

* 2x Chenbro (Storage)* 2.4GHz Xeon* 2x250GByte OS + 12x1.5TByte storage

* Software* Debian 5 (Lenny)* Xen 3.x* Open iSCSI* OpenFiler* md

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Far Future Infrastructure

ColoClue

Internet

Backups(Off-Ste)

Back-End(Storage)

Front-End(Memory/CPU)

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?Backups

(Off-Ste)

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Far Future Setup

* 500+ VPSes* Hardware

* Some Frond-End* Some Storage

* Software* Something OSS

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Revolution

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It all started with...

Back in 2004 a couple of friends decided to share a server...

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The 2007 revolution

In 2007 one of them decided it could be done differently!

And then, with 2 friends and a server,Hostingvereniging Soleus was born...

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A Solid Foundation

* A BoardChairman, Treasurer, Secretary

* A CoreTeamThe tech guys

* A CommunityOur members

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Our Goals

* Provide hosting-services for technically-oriented enthusiasts

* Promote the broadening, expansion and sharing of knowledge between similar minds

* Provide a social, open and welcome but solid community

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It's about the community

* Building it together* The tech* The formal bits

* The human face* A social community* Talk about the weather AND

the lastest kernel-release

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Room to grow

* Expand your knowledge* Tech area's* Non-Tech area's

* Open for your ideas

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Cooperation

* No competition but cooperation* With similar minds* With other communities* With companies* With you

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Love

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Contact

* WWW : http(s)://soleus.nu* Email : info@soleus.nu* IRC : #soleus (OFTC, irc.oftc.net)

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