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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 01:18:06 +0200
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To: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Windows PECL build machine died
From: divinity76@gmail.com (Hans Henrik Bergan)

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Fwiw Chris Haas / vendiadvertising.com has reached out, they're willing to
sponsor raid(1) if my proposal is accepted.
Haas is reading this mailing list, but does not wish to participate/post
directly at present.
(I have no prior relation, never heard of them before today)

On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 at 22:31, Hans Henrik Bergan <divinity76@gmail.com>
wrote:

> i have a 40-core 128GB RAM server with 1 (and only 1) static ipv4 address
> that I intend to keep around until at least 27 november 2025 (but unsure
> after that),
> it has more RAM/CPU than i need, and i could set up a virtual machine on
> it and give VNC access to the VM in the form of
> > ssh -L 9999:localhost:3389 user@ip
> then point a RDP/VNC client to localhost:9999
> i can dedicate individual TCP ports to it, but not any of 22, 80, 443,
> 5900,  5901, 8083, 9999, 587, 2525
> (after which i can recommend Teamviewer for a more comfortable access)
>
> but the server has several caveats:
> - it's un-raided, rolling just a single 1TB SSD, if that SSD was to die,
> everything on it would be lost, and it would probably take days to replace
> the drive.
> - it's located in a somewhat unstable environment, occasional power
> outage, it was out on 30 june, 23 june, 27 january, and in 2021 was down on
> 30 august. (it boots up and recovers automatically, but it has a reboot
> time of roughly 300 seconds until ssh responds again)
> - I can not offer a dedicated IP (but can offer some dedicated ports)
> - May be decommissioned after 27-11-2025
>
> If that sounds like a good idea, I'll want a ssh public key.
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 at 15:38, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
>> On 11.07.2022 at 21:04, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote:
>>
>> > Any of you windows.php.net guys familiar with SSH? Can one be created?
>>
>> That would be possible (needed to be set-up by Alex Schoenmaker), but
>> while that could solve the upload issue, it wouldn't solve the other
>> issue I've mentioned, namely that we need to avoid dynamically linking
>> against incompatible versions of dependencies.  And there is yet another
>> issue, namely security.  I think these issues can only be solved by some
>> central place where the packages are build.
>>
>> > On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 at 19:52, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 11.07.2022 at 18:53, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Is there any SSH public key associated with the Windows php
>> developers?
>> >> Or
>> >>> with CMB?
>> >>
>> >> No.  At least not regarding windows.php.net.
>> >>
>> >>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 at 18:25, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On 11.07.2022 at 17:41, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Do you mean it is unlikely that Github Actions will suffice? because
>> >> that
>> >>>>> would definitely be a great solution if it was possible/feasible .
>> >>>>
>> >>>> No.  It is only unlikely that automated uploads to window.php.net
>> will
>> >>>> ever be possible using GH actions.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Anyway, with regards to "I don't think there are special
>> requirements
>> >>>>> regarding the hardware", can you give a rough estimate on RAM/disk
>> >> space
>> >>>>> requirements?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The old machine had something like 4 or 8 GB RAM, and a 128 GB hard
>> >> disk.
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>

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