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Contribute to the mirror

The mirror grows with the bandwidth, storage and time people give it.

Ways to help

  • Bandwidth and storage: host a node or offer capacity in a regional data centre. co-location is very welcomed.
  • Maintenance: watch sync jobs for one project and report or fix problems.
  • Monitoring: help build the status checks shown on the mirror status page.

What we need from a hosting partner

  • Linux machine with any storage, any bandwidth and ability to maintain reasonable uptime
  • Location in a GCC country
  • Public IPv4 (IPv6 preferred as well)
  • A named contact for incidents

How to offer help

  • Contact maintainer (contribute -at- oiv.ae)

Priorities list

  • Co-location in Dubai, Abu-Dhabi, Fujeirah in UAE
  • VMs in other locations
  • Servers (reasonable aged, post-production hardware is welcomed)
  • SSD and SAS disks (can be collected and wiped per standards on-site before media leaves the building)
  • Financial contribution with all formalities (project is non-profitable organization)
  • Legal support
  • Contribution appreciation
  • Events invitations