[kwlug-disc] Backup plan for BBB server this month

[Mikalai Birukou]

> As of now (and since Oct 1) it looks like our BigBlueButton server has
> been inaccessible, because Datacity is having an internet outage at
> its datacentre. (I cannot imagine its paying customers are very happy
> right now.)

I suspect most of their customers have moved to their Waterloo location 
with two different fibers to Front Street. I will 😳.

I don't think we should expect another truck accident near Roger fibers 
this coming Monday. We have already witnessed once in a blue moon streak 
of fiber cuts. I am hopeful, cause this isn't Texas 🙂. Fiber cut has 
been fixed. And yes, it took Rogers 24 hours.

> I imagine this will be fixed by Monday. If not: does anybody have
> access to a different videoconferencing solution we could use for
> Monday? It should be able to support 15-20 participants. Open source
> (BBB, Jitsi, ???) is ideologically nicer, but a proprietary service
> might work in the worst case. We would have to test such a setup
> Friday or Saturday.

For this kind of backup, let's note that we have 15-20 non-video-cam 
participant, with only two presenting streams. This should instruct a 
required bandwidth.

I wonder, if this can be some kind of vm, rolled out in case of emergency.

We can put BBB and greenlight behind existing haproxy (using an almost 
copy paste of BBB's own haproxy settings). If there is possibility in 
case of emergency to spawn up and down vm where kwlug.org is located, 
then in an emergency colocated vm process can be started.

> My understanding is that meet.jit.si has limitations now?
>
> I don't like opening this can of worms but it is important to me that
> we maintain good accessibility for people who prefer to participate
> online.
>
> - Paul
>
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