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

• Confidential data; CiviCRM, Office Wiki, Ticketing, Source Control etc.
• Community; Public wikis, community services/software (Etherpad, QRPedia etc.)
• Services; email, mailing lists, etc.
• Development; for testing & pre-production deployment
• Hot Backup; of both the above & office data

Later on:

• Mirror; on different provider, mirroring essential services etc.
• Archival storage; long term cold storage for backup data

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)