Re: What ARM hardware should we buy and where should we host it?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Vagrant Cascadian <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2018-09-03, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> - We need to be able to restart the machine remotely.  If members of the
>>   Guix project have no physical access to the hosting site, this can be
>>   done via remote-controlled power supply or similar.
>>
>> We are looking for volunteers who could either host a machine at home or
>> in a data centre that they could get emergency access to.
>>
>> One system that looks promising for co-location is the Softiron
>> Overdrive 3000 (a rack-mounted ARM server.)  A system suitable for
>> hosting at home is the Softiron Overdrive 1000.  If you know of other
>> machines that would be suitable for our purposes, please let us know!
>
> For what it's worth, in my experience I don't think the Overdrive 1000
> can be remotely power-cycled without physical button-pushing, at least
> out of the box... maybe there's a workaround or getting a power supply
> that somehow supports this...

The two Overdrive 1000 machines that we have are currently hosted by
volunteers in their homes, so this is not generally a problem for us in
practice.  It would be inconvenient for co-location hosting, though.

--
Ricardo