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| − | This page is to collect information about our current configuration and options for switching to a new server going forward, since CentOS 7 goes end-of-life at 2024-06-30. Please feel free to edit to add missing information or correct errors. | + | This page is to collect information about our current configuration and options for switching to a new server going forward. Please feel free to edit to add missing information or correct errors. |
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| | == Server selection == | | == Server selection == |
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| − | [https://www.linode.com/pricing?r=30335eb136f2c5f7fa3429dce9f15bea836f81d3 Linode] has been acquired by Akamai and raised their prices. Could potentially downgrade from the $12/mo (2GB RAM) plan to the $5 (1GB RAM "Nanode") plan depending on distro system requirements. Could also consider dropping paid backup service or using something different. | + | [https://www.linode.com/pricing?r=30335eb136f2c5f7fa3429dce9f15bea836f81d3 Linode] has been acquired by Akamai and raised their prices. Could potentially downgrade from the $12/mo (2GB RAM) plan to the $5 (1GB RAM "Nanode") plan depending on distro system requirements. Could also consider dropping or using different paid backup service. |
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| | Other VPS providers can be considered, not sure if they are any cheaper/better. | | Other VPS providers can be considered, not sure if they are any cheaper/better. |
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| − | === Cloud Plans ===
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| − | Looking at 1GB and 2GB plans.
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| − | ! Vendor !! Plan !! $/Mo !! Memory !! CPU !! Storage !! Transfer
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| − | | Linode || Nanode 1GB || $5 || 1GB || 1 || 25GB || 1TB
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| − | | Linode || Linode 2GB || $12 || 2GB || 1 || 50GB || 2TB
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| − | | DigitalOcean || 1GiB || $6 || 1GiB || 1 || 25GiB || 1TB
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| − | |-
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| − | | DigitalOcean || 2GiB || $12 || 2GiB || 1 || 50GiB || 2TB
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| − | |-
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| − | | Hostwinds || || $4.99 || 1GB || 1 || 30GB || 1TB
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| − | | Hostwinds || || $9.90 || 2GB || 1 || 50GB || 2TB
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| − | | Vultr || || $5 || 1GB || 1 || 25GB || 1TB
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| − | |-
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| − | | Vultr || || $10 || 2GB || 1 || 55GB || 2TB
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| − | All services seem to be similar, with price differences only by a dollar or two.
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| | == OS selection == | | == OS selection == |
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| | * Web server (Apache) - it would be possible to use Nginx instead, but I (Vance) am not familiar with setting it up | | * Web server (Apache) - it would be possible to use Nginx instead, but I (Vance) am not familiar with setting it up |
| | * PHP (Apache mod_php) for MediaWiki - could be replaced with PHP-FPM | | * PHP (Apache mod_php) for MediaWiki - could be replaced with PHP-FPM |
| − | * Let's Encrypt for TLS certificate (certbot) | + | * Let's Encrypt for TLS certificate |
| | * Python for Mailman, Let's Encrypt, and Trac | | * Python for Mailman, Let's Encrypt, and Trac |
| | * Perl for Monkeybot | | * Perl for Monkeybot |
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| | * Greylisting daemon (Postgrey) | | * Greylisting daemon (Postgrey) |
| | * Fail2ban | | * Fail2ban |
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| − | === Support lifetime ===
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| − | * CentOS Stream 9 - [https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Life_Cycle_Dates 2027-05-31] (limited to RHEL Full Support lifetime)
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| − | * Rocky Linux 9 - [https://wiki.rockylinux.org/rocky/version/ 2032-05-31]
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| − | * AlmaLinux 9 - [https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/#almalinux-9 2032-05-31]
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| − | * Debian 12 "bookworm" - [https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610.en.html 2028-06-10 or later]
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| − | * Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)#Releases 2027-04]
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| − | === System requirements ===
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| − | !CPU
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| − | !RAM
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| − | !Disk
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| − | |[https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html-single/performing_a_standard_rhel_9_installation/index#system-requirements-reference_installing-RHEL CentOS] / Rocky / Alma 9
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| − | |amd64, arm64, ppc64el
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| − | |1.5 GB
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| − | |10 GB
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| − | |[https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/ch03s04.en.html Debian 12]
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| − | |amd64, arm64, i386 (686 or higher), ppc64el, mipsel, mips64el
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| − | |512 MB
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| − | |4 GB
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| − | |[https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/installation Ubuntu 22.04]
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| − | |1 GHz amd64, arm64, ppc64el
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| − | |1 GB
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| − | |2.5 GB
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| − | Currently we are using 22 GB of disk, as follows:
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| − | 594M /boot
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| − | 35M /etc
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| − | 11G /home - monkeybot.log is 7.3GB
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| − | 25M /opt
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| − | 2.2G /root
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| − | 4.0K /srv
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| − | 36K /tmp
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| − | 2.1G /usr
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| − | 6.3G /var
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| − | === Software availability ===
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| − | This table is to track, for the different distros under consideration, whether the software we need is available within its repositories. We want to minimize the number of applications which have to be maintained manually.
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| − | Key:
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| − | * B: in distro's base repository
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| − | * A: in an additional repository provided by the distro
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| − | * T: in a third-party repository
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| − | * ~: not available in any known repository
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| − | * ?: availability unknown
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| − | !CentOS / Rocky / Alma 9
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| − | !Debian 12
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| − | !Ubuntu 22.04
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| − | |-
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| − | |postfix
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| − | |B 3.5.9
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| − | |B 3.7.5
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| − | |B 3.6.4
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| − | |-
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| − | |mailman
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| − | |~
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| − | |B 3.3.8
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| − | |A (3) 20200530
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| − | |-
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| − | |postgrey
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| − | |T 1.37<sup>EPEL</sup>
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| − | |B 1.37
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| − | |A 1.36
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| − | |-
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| − | |mediawiki
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| − | |~
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| − | |B 1.39
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| − | |A 1.35
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| − | |-
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| − | |infobot
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| − | |~
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| − | |~
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| − | |~
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| − | |-
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| − | |trac
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| − | |~
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| − | |[https://packages.debian.org/bookworm-backports/trac A 1.6] (backports)
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| − | |A 1.5.3
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| − | |-
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| − | |apache
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| − | |B 2.4.53
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| − | |B 2.4.57
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| − | |B 2.4.52
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| − | |-
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| − | |nginx
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| − | |B 1.20.1 / 1.22.1
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| − | |B 1.22.1
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| − | |B 1.18.0
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| − | |-
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| − | |php
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| − | |B 8.0 / 8.1
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| − | |B 8.2
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| − | |B 8.1
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| − | |php-fpm
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| − | |B 8.0 / 8.1
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| − | |B 8.2
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| − | |A 8.1
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| − | |-
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| − | |python2
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| − | |[https://wiki.debian.org/Python/FAQ#Python_2_support ~]
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| − | |A 2.7.18
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| − | |python3
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| − | |B 3.9.16
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| − | |B 3.11.2
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| − | |B 3.10.4
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| − | |-
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| − | |perl5
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| − | |B 5.32
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| − | |B 5.36
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| − | |B 5.34
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| − | |mariadb
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| − | |B 10.5
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| − | |B 10.11
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| − | |A 10.6
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| − | |-
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| − | |mysql
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| − | |B 8.0
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| − | |~
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| − | |B 8.0
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| − | |-
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| − | |sqlite
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| − | |B 3.34
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| − | |B 3.40
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| − | |B 3.37
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| − | |-
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| − | |fail2ban
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| − | |T 1.0.2<sup>EPEL</sup>
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| − | |B 1.0.2
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| − | |A 0.11.2
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| − | |-
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| − | |certbot
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| − | |T 2.6.0<sup>EPEL</sup>
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| − | |B 2.1.0
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| − | |A 1.21.0
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| − | |}
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| − | Third-party repositories:
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| − | * EPEL - [https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/ Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux]
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| | == Nice-to-haves == | | == Nice-to-haves == |
