[pypy-dev] Colo in Germany for the Windows build slave?

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

Hi Yury

I don't have any particularly good answers, but thanks a lot for doing
that! Getting buildbots *maintained* is surprisingly tedious job that
only few succeed at. Getting that done on windows is double hard,
we're all super thankful!

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Yury V. Zaytsev <yury at shurup.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've been running the Windows build slave for the last ~1.5 years, but all
> good things come to an end, and I've been informed that I must shutdown the
> machine by the end of the year (that was the bad news).
>
> The "good" news is that I've been promised that I can have the hardware, so,
> in theory, if I can find colo to host it (Germany, preferably Cologne area),
> I can replace the hard drives, reshuffle the RAM, reinstall the system and
> plug it back in. If memory serves me well, it's an old Dell PowerEdge R710
> rack mount server (2U).
>
> It used to run other VMs unrelated to the PyPy project, but I only plan to
> use it to host build VMs for OSS projects that I'm involved in after
> "decommissioning". Any takers? I think it would be best to talk via private
> email to avoid annoying list subscribers.
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Yury V. Zaytsev
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