[ZendTo] Recommended Ubuntu setup for zend.to server

Mon Jul 13 20:01:28 BST 2020

I run it on a Debian VM with 2GB of RAM and ~100GB of disk (but limited
to 2GB dropoffs), in a setting with thousands of users.

(Looking at that now, it seems low. But it's been that way since before
it was ZendTo and has never thrown an alert.)

~Keith

On 7/13/20 9:21 AM, Ken Etter via ZendTo wrote:
> 32 GB is way overkill unless you have something going on that we
> aren't aware of.  The employee count at my office is similar to yours
> and I run my ZendTo server with 4 GB and it doesn't break a sweat.  :-)
> >>> Marlon Deerr via ZendTo <zendto at zend.to> 7/12/2020 2:12 PM >>>
> Thanks Jules,
>  
> I appreciate the response.  I’ll rebuild using Ubuntu 20.04 instead. 
>  
> What about sizing out memory? We have roughly 90+ employees but of
> that, I would say roughly 40+ of those will be actively using the
> service. I was thinking of assigning 32GB to it but is that overkill?
>  
>  
>  
> *From:* Jules [mailto:Jules at Zend.To]
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 11, 2020 4:49 AM
> *To:* ZendTo Users <zendto at zend.to>
> *Cc:* Marlon Deerr <MDeerr at hshlawyers.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ZendTo] Recommended Ubuntu setup for zend.to server
>  
> Marlon,
>
> Considering the timescales you work on, I would advise using the
> latest LTS release of Ubuntu. It may well save you time in the long run.
>
> For the storage, you might want to let Ubuntu do its default
> behaviour, but put /var/zendto in a volume of its own at the end of
> the disk. Everything in /var/zendto needs to be in the same
> volume/partition.
>
> But if it's only a "throwaway" demo server for The Management(tm),
> then it won't matter much as you'll almost certainly rebuild it before
> making it a production service anyway.
>
> When installing Ubuntu, just do a minimal install. You might want to
> install the openssh-server package to give yourself remote ssh access
> to it, but beyond that the ZendTo Installer will add everything it needs.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Jules.
> On 11/07/2020 02:57, Marlon Deerr via ZendTo wrote:
>
>     Hello All,
>      
>     It’s been roughly 5+ years since I have used Zend.to and roughly
>     the same amount of time since managing one from a Citrix XenServer
>     host with Ubuntu as the Linux server hosting Zend.to.  I would
>     like to eventually put zend.to services into production.  I have
>     access to HP ProLiant server that is now out of official
>     production so I thought I would use it to demo to upper management
>     what zend.to can do for our environment.
>      
>     I was wondering if someone can provide a bit of advice on best way
>     to set things up.
>      
>     1.       I have roughly 800GB of storage
>     2.       I’ll be installing Ubuntu 19.10 (fresh install)
>     1.       How should I allocate storage? I’m assuming either of
>     these are my choices
>     1.One large partition for OS as well as drop-offs ?
>     2.One partition for OS and one partition for drop-offs?
>     2.       When I install Ubuntu, should I leave it fresh without
>     any additional software/services installed during installation?
>      
>     Any help on best setup would be greatly appreciated.
>      
>     Many thanks,
>     Marlon
>      
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