 Did we get a response on the support ticket raised with Linode ?
 (Photo, 867x346) https://irc-attachments.kde.org/1c7MuGHk/file_17592.jpg
 Hmmm, do we know what the monthly cost would be ?
 ~£190
 I went up a few months ago, which is why we are running out of credit a bit sooner than we though!
 OK, do we know how much utilisation it has ? i.e can we a smaller setup ?
 I suppose time is against us now though ☹️
 The next step down halves the disk space, which would be a bit tight for us
 Hmm. the $60 ($95 with tax) might be ok
 they have upped the disk space on that to what we have now
 @Sick_Rimmit I'll tweet linode later from the Kubuntu account, to give a polite nudge 😉
 OK, that's a good idea.
 (Photo, 616x549) https://irc-attachments.kde.org/N7ozTwsN/file_17599.jpg
 Kubuntu Council, there is another opportunity we can definitely pursue to get this solved. This box is currently running on 16.04 and has quite a lot of undocumented bits on it. Altispeed Technologies is providing a counteroffer that will upgrade our box and make sure we don't have the need to renew yearly, free of charge to Kubuntu
 I am more than willing to help out with sysadmin tasks to get it working and functional
 So I'd like to propose a vote to change to Altispeed to host the server
 No social media hassle, plus we get advertising on a Linux podcast with over a million listens
 I will admit my conflict of interest here, which is why I'd like to bring it up to the KC as a whole
 Well, I would suggest that we try to get the extension from Linode, AND that we also look at the Altispeed option as well.
 That way we can plan for the update, and also document etc...
 Sounds sensible
 That's not a bad idea. Have a migration period, move everything over before our Linode subscription runs out again, then just use Linode as a KCI node and sunset it when it runs out
 Just need to work out what to back up in case we lose the linode soon
 Indeed, further to this however, if we can revisit our tooling, and get it nicely documented, perhaps we could think about a distributed build system, maybe based upon Docker / Kubernetes ( beyond my skills right now )
 But in doing so, we could create a build system decoupled from the hosting, and perhaps even using multi-tennant.
 Perhaps that is beyond the skillset of current contributors, although I like your thinking
 In Lubuntu's infrastructure we currently use LXD
 Every service gets its own container, and haproxy is used to forward requests
 Well that's probably just as good, my thinking is that we decouple from the host OS into containers.
 That's exactly what we do :)
 The KCI node and packaging we have is all in LXD
 Well hopefully, Linode will come through so we can get more time
 Anyway, should I provide a formal proposal via the mailing list, or is a simple "yeah I think this looks good" from a quorum sufficient?
 @RikMills, Nice
 @tsimonq2, Yeah, apart from doing the forwarding via ufw and iptables that is not documented
 Hmm
 @tsimonq2, @Sick_Rimmit @RikMills thoughts on this?
 Well for a Quorum, do we need one other person to give us the nod ?
 @ahoneybun ?
 For me, I am happy for @tsimonq2 to proceed with Altispeed
 ditto
 That's fine.
 Okay, so I'll talk to Altispeed so we can provision a machine
 Quorum then
 Yes, looks good
 Great to be able to move quickly like this
 Shal I leave the tweet I did?
 Yes, definetly as we want Linode to extend
 If we can get another year, then lets do that
 ok :)
 It's not a hard requirement of the sponsorship, but once we have it all set up, it'd be cool to get the Altispeed logo on the sponsors page and to send out a quick tweet with the podcast etc.
 I'll report back with a more formalized request once we have the server provisioned
 Yes we can certainly do that
 Kool
 https://twitter.com/linode/status/1168615672873717760
 YaY!!! That's Greaaaaat News
 To clarify, we're getting dedicated hardware just for Kubuntu
 Management at Altispeed basically all runs Kubuntu, so they're happy to go the extra mile :)
 Fwd from Kernellinux: Just got confirmation - eta is Sep 9th / online sep 10th lets say
 That's really great, we appreciate it
 Agreed :)
 (Document) https://irc-attachments.kde.org/v0sRjFTm/file_17603.mp4
 We can probably get stuff like the way pages hosted there, so they work again. Plus other extras
 QA Pages, do you mean like the test plans etc..
 Kubuntu can even run our own Phabricator and Discourse instance >:P
 I meant the automated qa status pages for ppa staginging, showing what needs fixing. We lost those from Jon's sweetie server
 @tsimonq2, Indeed. I'm sure we can make good use as more than just a vps
 Well I'm happy to have a crack at writing an API integration to display results on a webpage, if someone can point me at the APi endpoint, and a few docs
 Meanwhile, I'm going to start pick up some of the Phab tasks, and see if I can progress them. I've put a survey form together and posted the mailing lists.
 https://forms.gle/6UqCY8yCLf2x5hhC8
 That's for T7403  … https://phabricator.kde.org/T7403