IT Development/Proposals/Infrastructure

Outline for the new infrastructure/servers:

• Easy to migrate (OpenStack based; which is also open source so another plus!)
• Secure (multiple servers, sandboxed instances)
• Versatile ie. easy to maintain (cloud-based to allow quick migration & scaling)
• Resilient (Hardware failure tolerant)
• UK-based (to simplify compliance issues)

Suggested infrastructure:

• 3 "production" servers: one for wikis, one for internal software (civiCRM etc.) and a third for other services (mailing lists etc.)
• Capacity for an on-demand development server

There are a couple of suppliers that would meet these requirements, I will outline them below.

Suppliers

Rackspace (http://www.rackspace.com)

FireHost (http://www.firehost.co.uk)

Coreix (http://www.coreix.net)

Elastic Hosts (http://www.elastichosts.com)