hosting options
Pirate Praveen Fri 18 Mar 2016 3:09PMPublicSeen by 9We should choose a good host for the instance.
First option for ethics/privacy (green/Iceland has best free speech laws) is https://1984hosting.com/product/vps/ but they are too costly.
Second option would be https://www.gandi.net/hosting/ but still bit costly. We run poddery.com with them and they are pretty good.
Third option is https://www.scaleway.com/ which offer very cheap hosting from France. I think we can start with a starter VPS for now as their other vps products are yet to launch. We can scale as we grow.
Pirate PraveenFri 18 Mar 2016 3:55PM
@sytsesidsijbrandij thanks! We'll proceed with getting a machine from gandi.net
Sytse 'Sid' SijbrandijFri 18 Mar 2016 6:01PM
@praveenarimbrathod awesome! let me know if you want us to open an account and pay or if you want to expense it
Pirate PraveenSat 19 Mar 2016 6:07AM
@sytsesidsijbrandij let me see if we can use our existing gandi.net account. (asking poddery.com maintainers for their opinion https://www.loomio.org/d/PKB2F9vk/proposal/598mfgqn) You can buy credits for a specific gandi.net handle. So it will be better if you buy credits to our account once we decide which account to use.
Sytse 'Sid' SijbrandijMon 21 Mar 2016 8:39PM
Cool, we'll buy the credits when the handle is clear.
Pirate PraveenWed 23 Mar 2016 7:25AM
@sytsesidsijbrandij you can buy credits to MKT10-GANDI handle. https://www.gandi.net/credit/handle?handle=MKT10-GANDI
Pirate PraveenThu 24 Mar 2016 12:22PM
@sytsesidsijbrandij credits are added to our handle, thanks! Created the server and now setting up the DNS.
@manukrishnantv @balasankarchelamat KnightSwarm.com does not allow any more edits to the zones, so I'm switching fosscommunity.in to 1984hosting.com Free DNS service.
Pirate PraveenThu 24 Mar 2016 7:10PM
@sytsesidsijbrandij we are live at https://git.fosscommunity.in running the gitlab package on debian jessie with a few manual steps (mail setup and some dependencies, which I hope to automate). Lets' test it among ourselves before we announce widely. We'll also add a link to gitlab.com as our hosting sponsor.
Sytse 'Sid' SijbrandijFri 25 Mar 2016 7:59PM
@praveenarimbrathod awesome!
Sytse 'Sid' Sijbrandij ·Fri 18 Mar 2016 3:49PM
I'm OK with GitLab Inc. paying for an X-Large at Gandi.