sdnog hosting project: infrastructure updates

Here, we share regular updates on the development, upgrades, and operational status of the infrastructure that supports the sdnog community . This includes deployments of core services, network enhancements, performance improvements, and collaborative efforts with local and international partners.

Our goal is to ensure a reliable, secure, and scalable technical environment that empowers knowledge sharing and capacity building within the Sudanese network operator community.

12 May 2025 :  fix the  DIMM for vm1

i  the suspect DIMM in A2 has been removed  and replaced it with one belong to INX.The  server got a 32GB RAM upgrade (A2 and B2 need to be the same for dual-channel memory support).

 

19 May 2025: New backup system

INX has implemented a new backup system - we’re now using proxmox backup server instead of a remote NFS mount from a NAS.  so yesterday i cut the sdnog hosting infrastructure over to this.  i also took this chance to upgrade the backup infrastructure to 10gb/s as this was limited to 1gb/s previously.  

backups are now much faster - because they are incremental  (and more backend speed)  - the proxmox server has 32x gold cores at 3.6ghz, caching disks, more spindles, etc.    you can login to any of the server and hit “Run now” for any of the servers and you’ll see this for yourself - the backup results are still  being emailed to sysadmin@sdnog (attached one here) 

i changed the backups storage from “keep 4 copies” to keep 14 copies because the disk space used is lower.

later this week, i’ll deploy another server in a different location so that there is off-site backups;  my plan is to set backups to run at 12h intervals, and create alternate backups so that morning backups (7am) stay onsite, but evening backups (7pm) go offsite.  if you have better ideas, let me know.