We offer a wide variety of services to our hosted clients so the OSL can help offload work from your machine and/or infrastructure team. This list is not exhaustive, but is intended to give a better idea of the types of services we provide.
We offer virtual machines utilizing an open source stack consisting of Ganeti and the KVM hypervisor. We have a cluster for small projects and offer VMs that range in specs from 512M RAM/10G disk to 2G RAM/30G disk, all with full redundancy. For more information, see our article on Ganeti at the OSUOSL.
Additionally, we can host virtualization clusters and maintain the virtualization backend (using Ganeti and KVM), but allow clients to manage their own clusters. Most Linux/BSD distributions are currently supported, and we can can quickly deploy Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS and Gentoo. Other operating systems will need to be installed manually.
We use Nagios to monitor our managed hosts and send alert pages when things go down. We are able to offer fine-grained monitoring and notification to our hosted clients.
Either Cacti or Munin can be setup to monitor the health of servers at the OSL. Statistics such as CPU usage, load, memory, network traffic and more can all be monitored and historically tracked.
We offer hosted MySQL or PostgreSQL accounts for our clients on our cluster of database servers. Access to your database is available using phpMyAdmin or phppgadmin. We also offer CLI access.
This service is to be used for disaster recovery rather than data recovery, meaning we keep backups for a limited period of time (usually long enough to provide a couple of full data sets that can be used to rebuild a server as opposed to recovering files from long ago). Backups are handled by a server with close to 30 terabytes of attached storage using Bacula.
We have a cluster of FTP servers behind the ftp.osuosl.org name with a total bandwidth of more than 3 gigabit per second. Instead of pushing files and releases out from your own server, let us take care of the dirty work for you. For the current cluster status, see our FTP Map.
We have a number of local mail relays that OSL-hosted servers can use to help relieve some of the pressure that mail can put on their servers. These relays do spam and virus tagging.
For those projects that need more than just a single virtual machine or shared website, we do offer co-location hosting. We have limited space, power and cooling but we generally can host something provided there is a warranted need for it. Please note that the OSL generally prefers projects to virtualize as much of their infrastructure as possible.
We require all servers to have sliding rails and cable management arms. Hardware must be purchased from a vendor rather than built by hand to ensure it operates as intended. We prefer that hardware also includes dual power, some type of out-of-band management (i.e. iLO, iDRAC, etc) and a three-year basic hardware warranty. We prefer not to host any machines larger than 2U, but can work with our clients to accomodate larger servers if needed.
We offer many resources for PowerPC developers. These resources range from dedicated PPC systems to those available for open developer accounts. See our PowerPC development site, powerdev.osuosl.org for more information.
OSU Open Source Lab
224 Milne Computer Center
1800 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
info@osuosl.org
Phone: 541-737-9900
