A few non profit organizations (April, FSF France, tetaneutral.net…) and volunteers constantly research how to get compute, storage and bandwidth that are:
- 100% Free Software
- Content neutral
- Low maintenance
- Reliable
- Cheap
The latest setup, in use since ocbober 2013, is based on a Ceph and OpenStack cluster spread over five datacenters. It has been designed for the following use cases:
- Free Software development and continuous integration
- Hosting low activity web sites, mail servers etc.
- Keeping backups
- Sharing movies and music
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