English below.
OCF 不定期與國際友人合作，在台灣舉辦推廣開放文化的活動。本次由來自阿姆斯特丹的主機託管商 Greenhost 的創辦人 Mart 來進行三場經歷真槍實戰後所建立一座主機託管服務商的分享，預計將會針對不同的基礎建設拆分成 3 場精彩的內容，於 2/25 起每週一晚上舉辦：
第一場：資料中心與網路骨幹
本次分享將會分享 GreenHost 上千台服務器大型資料中心的建立心路歷程的和分享其建立時的具體考量及介紹
第二場：網路資源及路由管理： IP, AS Number, DNS
本次分享將會承續第一場之分享，著重在網路架構的部分進行實戰經驗分享，身為一家專業的託管服務商是如何看待跟管理路由
第三場：軟體平臺架構
本次分享將會著重在軟體選擇及使用的部分，分享如何選擇開源或企業版的軟體產品，具體考量點又是什麼？歡迎一起參加討論
關於 Greenhost
Greenhost 是一家網路主機供應商 (hosting provider) ，總部位於阿姆斯特丹。他們是「綠的」主機供應商，資料中心、辦公室、電腦設備均使用節能永續的產品。除了提供商用服務之外，也以行動支持網路自由及開放原始碼，他們針對記者、非營利組織提供免費的「快速反應服務」，當線上服務遭受威脅時（例如駭客入侵或是 DDoS 攻擊），他們免費提供協助。他們也維護 Totem 線上資安學習平台、OpenAppStack （一鍵部署開源的線上檔案儲存、聊天、共享日曆、網站）、Eclips.is 雲端伺服器平台。
Mart 是 Greenhost 的創辦人，十分熟悉資料中心的營運及各種雲端運算技術。
本演講以英文進行，並提供中文逐步口譯。
協辦單位：Cloud Native Taiwan User Group
How to build an independent and open hosting provider
OCF works with international partners to promote open culture in Taiwan. This time we have invited Mart from Greenhost to give a series of talks. This series comprises 3 talks:
Part 1: Physical Infrastructure
Part 2: Internet Resources
Part 3: Software stack - Open Source, Close source, WTF is Enterprice
Greenhost is a hosting provider headquartered in Amsterdam. They are a “green” hosting provider, they use environment friendly equipments to operate. Other than offering commercial services, they also support internet freedom and FOSS actively. They provide “Rapid Response Service” for activists and journalists when digital security incidents occur. They also built the Totem online learning platform for digital security, OpenAppStack, an open source all-in-one solution for file storage, chat, calendar and website, and Eclips.is cloud server platform.
Mart is the founder of Greenhost. He is familiar will datacenter operations and cloud computing technologies.
This talk is in English, it will be consecutively interpreted into Mandarin Chinese.
Talk three: platform & services
Once you have your hardware layer running, you would like to run a platform on it. In this talk the Greenhost platform will be explained.
Storage
The greenhost storage runs on CEPH, what is CEPH and how does it work. What are the limitations and risks of running ceph.
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Design of a CEPH platform
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Expected speed / performance
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Mixing traditional and modern disk
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Redundancy of ceph
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Backups
Virtualization
Greenhost equipment mostly runs on Xen virtualization.
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What is Xen and why Xen
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HVM/PV or PVH
Management layer
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To tie this together a management layer is required. What does greenhost management layer exist of
(Traditional) Shared hosting stack
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Apache & clustering
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HA proxies and Let’s Encrypt
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MySQL / MariaDB
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Logging infrastructure
e-mail services
It is hard to host email those days. The amount of spam and configuration is complex. Without going into to much detail, some of the complexities of email hosting will be discussed.
(eclips.is) virtualization platform & alternative software demo
Greenhost Open Projects
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Short introduction on what Greenhost is contributing to the Open Source world
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Co-host: Cloud Native Taiwan User Group
