924744 - [Request] have a Mozillian server hosting for BabelZilla project

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Reps Graveyard :: Community IT Requests, task)

Description

[Jean-Bernard Marcon]

Attachment: tech_requirements

babelzilla.org is a site and community dedicated to online translation of
extensions for Mozilla apps. We have started on 2005. We welcome volunteer
translators for more than 150 different languages. We are hosting more than
1100 extensions.
Some years ago, we have asked Mozilla Europe to pay for our hosting monthly
fee, and thus our admin got his money back from Mozilla.
Since there is no longer Mozilla Europe, Jürgen Berg (co-founder and Tech
admin of BabelZilla) has to pay every month a 66€ fee on his own personal
money (Note that BabelZilla is a completely free service, there is not even
a donation button)
That is why we request again, but this time not for money. We wish the whole
domain to be hosted on a Mozilla server.

Comment 1

[Jean-Bernard Marcon]

Attached small .txt file gives some estimated tech requirements by our tech admin.

Comment 2

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

Community IT can evaluate the purchase of a server. I'm assuming you will administrate it, right?

Adding Debloper who is in charge of this kind of approvals.

Comment 3

[Jürgen Berg]

(In reply to Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] from comment #2)
> Community IT can evaluate the purchase of a server. I'm assuming you will
> administrate it, right?
> 
> Adding Debloper who is in charge of this kind of approvals.

Yes, I will administrate the server.

Comment 4

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Restoring the needinfo, goofy removed that by mistake.

Comment 5

[Soumya Deb [:Debloper]]

Request looks solid.
VPS should suffice.
Good to go.

Tad: are we keeping a directory of community sites?
I'm a bit lost on the recent progress on that part.

Comment 6

[Dumitru Gherman [:dumitru]]

(In reply to Soumya Deb [:Debloper] from comment #5)

> Tad: are we keeping a directory of community sites?
> I'm a bit lost on the recent progress on that part.

Bug 910358 should take care of this.

Comment 7

[Jean-Bernard Marcon]

Anything new on that request, is there any step/requirement we are missing yet?

Comment 8

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

Next step please?

Comment 9

[Nikos Roussos [:comzeradd]]

Agree with Deb. This looks good to go.

Comment 10

[chris hofmann]

So remo can approve funding for this, but who will do the purchase, and server setup in a mozilla colo?

Comment 11

[Nikos Roussos [:comzeradd]]

Remo approve that this meets community criteria to be hosted on Mozilla's infra. IT will take it from here.

Comment 12

[Dumitru Gherman [:dumitru]]

For community requests, we are providing VPS services from OVH.

Jean-Bernard, can you please go here http://www.ovh.co.uk/vps/ and let me know what VPS configuration do you need (RAM/CPU/disk)?
Then, please make an OVH NIC handle ( https://www.ovh.co.uk/cgi-bin/nic/newNic.cgi ) and send it to me.
Thanks!

Comment 13

[Dumitru Gherman [:dumitru]]

Waiting for the green light from my managers to purchase this.

Comment 14

[Dumitru Gherman [:dumitru]]

vps39438.ovh.net purchased, details have been emailed to [e-mail].

Comment 15

[Jürgen Berg]

I've noticed that the OVH control panel shows a required renewal on 02/08/2015 for the VPS.
Are there any problems with the renewal?

Comment 16

[Jürgen Berg]

The same problem as in August. The control panel shows a required renewal on 14/12/2015 for the VPS.

Comment 17

[Jean-Bernard Marcon]

(In reply to Jürgen Berg from comment #16)
> The same problem as in August. The control panel shows a required renewal on
> 14/12/2015 for the VPS.

Up with this request. We still don't know exactly if must ring the bell before redline and request again or if there is some kind of automatic renewal. Please clarify, Many thanks to whoever is managing this.

Comment 18

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to Jean-Bernard Marcon from comment #17)
> Up with this request. We still don't know exactly if must ring the bell
> before redline and request again or if there is some kind of automatic
> renewal. Please clarify, Many thanks to whoever is managing this.

I'm not managing this, but I have a server in the same situations (and there are several others).

Server renewals are managed by Community IT, and they're always done very close to the end of the period. In this specific case Orlando and all the traveling was in the way, but renewal is being managed.

Comment 19

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

renewal wasn't managed for mozfr.org, so we had to pay by ourselves for the month to come…

Comment 20

[chris hofmann]

 majken,  can you help steamline the renewal on this?

Comment 21

[tad]

Chris,
We have extended payment terms with OVH that will last until Friday. Nothing will go down until then. Renewal is on it's way :)

You can safely ignore the emails