XSF Infrastructure

This is a work page for the XSF's Infrastructure Team.

Mission

The XSF's Infrastructure Team is responsible for maintaining and improving the machines, software, and other tools used by the XSF to deliver its websites, discussion lists, chatrooms, and other services.

Migration Plans

As of July 2024, the XSF's services are split between cloud providers and hosted services at USSHC. We are planning to move all of the hosted services to cloud providers in the coming months.

The breakdown of services is roughly as follows:

Service	Current	Future	Notes
Domain Registration	Dotster	TBD	Peter would like to move this to Cloudflare or Namecheap because of cost and convenience, but is open to other options.
DNS	atlas + ik.nu	See below for options.	There are several machines hosting DNS.
Mail	USSHC	See below for options.	This line is for email aliases such as info@xmpp.org - not mailman. However, as discussed below, these will be set up as "dummy lists" at mailman3.com.
Mailman	USSHC	mailman3.com	See below for details.
Web	Digital Ocean	No Change	N/A
XMPP	Digital Ocean	No Change	N/A

DNS

Several options have been mentioned:

• https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/dns/
• https://desec.io/
• https://dnsimple.com/
• https://rimuhosting.com/dns/aboutdns.jsp

For convenience, Peter would like to move both domain registration (xmpp.[org|com|net]) and DNS to the same service, preferably Cloudflare because (a) the price is very reasonable and (2) that's what he's familiar with.

Mail

Peter suggests that we set up a single inbox with one of the following providers (about $50/year):

• https://www.fastmail.com --> Peter and Matthew are most familiar with this service.
• https://proton.me/mail --> XSF CommTeam is here already with their address.
• https://mailbox.org/en/

Note: Peter has set up a free account `xsfadminteam` under the protonmail.com domain for certain delimited uses, but the inbox mentioned above is for more general use.

Mailman

We have decided on shared hosting with https://mailman3.com/ paid yearly at €150/yr (€12.5/mo).

We envision moving the following 8 lists to the mailman3.com deployment:

• board
• gsoc
• iteam (we should keep this for emergency purposes!)
• members
• newsletter
• operators
• standards
• summit

We would also set up the following addresses as "dummy lists" that deliver messages to the relevant team members.

• dns@
• editor@
• info@
• privacy@
• registrar@
• sponsors@
• tarsnap@
• trademark@
• xmpp@

By default, standard addresses like postmaster@ and abuse@ are handled by mailman3.com (but we can make other arrangements if needed).

Note: this migration will sever all association between xmpp.org and jabber.org for email (in fact, we have already disabled all jabber.org lists, and any remaining jabber.org email addresses, whether personal or organizational, are no longer needed).

NOTE

Most of the following information is out of date!!

Current Projects

Services

1. In order to be listed here: http://xmpp.org/resources/public-services/
2. An operator should do the following: http://xmpp.org/resources/public-services/registration/
3. And then we should do this: http://xmpp.org/resources/public-services/verification/

We should automate this. Mitchel Constantin, David Banes and Mike Taylor have expressed an interest.

Team Members

The Team Leader is Kevin Smith. The complete team roster is:

• Anders Conbere -- XMPP, XEP tools
• Fabio Forno -- XMPP, bots
• Michael Grigutsch -- mail, lists, dns
• Waqas Hussain -- XMPP
• Florian Jensen -- OS, DNS
• Guus der Kinderen
• Marcus Lundblad -- XMPP
• Tobias Markmann -- XEP tools, web, source control
• Jeremie Miller (XSF emeritus) -- physical machines, DNS
• Jack Moffitt -- web, XMPP
• Edwin Mons -- DNS, mail, lists, web, OS
• Steven Parkes
• Peter Saint-Andre -- DNS, mail, lists, XEP tools, web, XMPP, source control, certificates
• Jonathan Siegle - OS, firewalls, data backup
• Kevin Smith -- OS, web, XMPP, source control
• Luca Tagliaferri
• Mike Taylor -- Dev Tools
• Remko Tronçon -- XMPP, bots
• Matthew Wild -- OS, web, XMPP

Inventory Page

• XSF Inventory

Current Machines

• Hermes

 XMPP server
 Machine: HP ProLiant D385 G2 
 CPU: Dual 2.8 GHz Opteron CPU(2220)
 RAM: 16 GB
 LAST Debian Update: 3/1/2015 (Wheezy)

• Athena

 old XMPP Server
 Machine: Dell Poweredge 1850
 Acquired: January 2005
 CPU: Dual P4 Hyperthreaded Xeon CPUs (2.8 Ghz)
 RAM: 4 Gig
 LAST DEBIAN UPDATE: 5/12/2010 (Lenny)

• Apollo

 Web server
 Machine: Dell Poweredge 1850
 Acquired: January 2005
 CPU: Dual P4 Hyperthreaded Xeon CPUs (2.8 Ghz)
 RAM: 2 Gig
 LAST DEBIAN Update 12/24/2014(Wheezy).

• Atlas

 Mail server
 Machine: HP ProLiant DL360
 Acquired: 2003?
 CPU: Dual P4 Hyperthreaded Xeon CPUs (2.4 Ghz)
 RAM: 2 Gig
 LAST DEBIAN UPDATE: 11/17/2019(Jessie)

Network Infrastructure

Network services and NOC space graciously provided by USSHC.