We offer a wide variety of services to our hosted clients. Listed below are a number of services which are intended to help offload work from your machine (and/or infrastructure team). This is not an exhaustive list, but is intended to give a better idea of the types of services we provide.

FTP Mirroring

We have a cluster of FTP servers behind the ftp.osuosl.org name with a total bandwidth of over 1 gigabit per second. Instead of pushing files and releases out from your own server, let us take care of the dirty work for you. For the current cluster status, see our FTP Map.

Mail Relaying

We have a number of local mail relays that OSL hosted servers can use to help relieve some of the pressure that mail can put on their servers. These relays do spam and virus tagging.

DNS Management

We offer web-based DNS management and IP allocation through Maintain, a project developed by the OSL. Hosted clients can be given access to administer their own domain name using our web interface. For more information about the Maintain application itself and how you can use it for managing DNS, IP, and DHCP in your own organization, see maintainproject.osuosl.org.

Nagios Monitoring

We use Nagios to monitor our managed hosts and send alert pages when things go down. We are able to offer fine-grained monitoring and notification to our hosted clients.

Cacti SNMP Monitoring

Cacti is setup to monitor the health of servers at the OSL via snmp. Statistics such as CPU usage, load, memory, network traffic, and more can all be monitored and historically tracked with Cacti.

Database Management

We offer hosted MySQL accounts for our clients on a cluster of database servers. Contact us for new databases and accounts. For access to your database, we offer phpMyAdmin as well as the mysql CLI.

Backups

Backups are handled by a server with close to 10 terabytes of attached storage. This facility is meant for disaster recovery rather than data recovery. The difference means that we keep backups for a limited period of time, usually long enough to provide a couple of full sets that can be used to rebuild a server as opposed to recovering files from long ago. Backups are handled by the Dirvish application.

PowerPC Development

We offer many resources for PowerPC developers. These resources range from dedicated PPC systems to those available for open developer accounts. See our PowerPC development site, powerdev.osuosl.org for more information.