CHG-2018-07-06 hetzner1 deprecation
This article describes the change for deprecating our hetzner1 server after all its functions were migrated to the cheaper & more powerful hetzner2 server.
Status
2018-07-05
Michael Altfield began initial investigation of all accounts on hetzner1 to determine what to backup to glaicer before shutting down this server.
Conclusion: ~34.87G of data (before compression) from files & databases spanning 5x distinct user accounts (osemain, osecivi, oseblog, oseforum, and microft). There was an additional user = 'osesurv' that I was unable to access.
Note that Hetzner1 is a "dedicated shared" server, so we don't have root on the box, making investigation much more difficult (the admin who setup this box has long-since left OSE).
Purpose
When I (Michael Altfield) joined OSE over a year ago, we had 1x website on Hetzner2 and 5x websites on Hetzner1.
Hetzner1 refers to a shared hosting plan with Hetzner that we began using in 2011. It does not give us root access, runs debian 8, has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Processor, 4 GB RAM, 2x 400 GB Harddisks, and 1 Gbit/s Connection.
Hetzner2 refers to a dedicated server that we began using in 2016. It has root access, runs centos 7, and has an Intel Core i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake4 CPU, 64G RAM, and 2x 250G SSDs in a software RAID1.
Note that Hetzner1 is less powerful *and* more expensive. Hetzner1 costs 74.79 eur/mo while Hetzner2 costs 39.00 eur/mo.
At the time of the creation of this CHG, all known production websites that existed on Hetzner1 have been fully migrated onto Hetzner2. However, there's a lot of projects and data still on Hetzner1, and it's unclear if any of it is important or not. Therefore, this CHG exists to backup all data we can find to some durable & cheap backup server (we plan to use aws glacier) prior to shutting down Hetzner1 for about a month. If a month has passed and nothing has broken, we'll terminate our contract with Hetzner1 & stop (over)paying 75 eur/mo.
Points of Contact
Change being performed by: Michael Altfield
Service owners: by Catarina Mota & Marcin Jakubowski for Open Building Institute and Open Source Ecology