Sponsors

Sponsors listed below provide either one (or more) dedicated bare metal servers, or cloud/cdn infrastructure to the CentOS Project.

If you are interested in becoming a CentOS sponsor, see below

AltusHost
artmotion
Amazon Web Services
baseip
BinaryRacks
cdn77
ClientVPS
codero
Colocation America
Dedicated Solutions
eukhost
FastHosts
GameHost
hostiserver
hostkey
HostStage
InterNetX
Introserv
ITsyndicate
Lyrahosting
multacom
NDCHost
Phoenix NAP
Server.Net
serverel
ServerHub
ServerMania
serverpoint
serverpronto
shinjiru
Stablepoint
trabia network
vHost
Virtual Systems
Vultr
webnx
WeHaveServers
Whitelabel ITSolutions
wowrack

Donating/sponsoring servers to the CentOS Project

We mainly use donated/sponsored servers as mirrors we control/monitor. If you can host one (or more) dedicated servers, here are the preferred specifications :

  • Recent Intel and AMD physical machines ( supporting x86-64-v2 specs, aka grep sse4_2 /proc/cpuinfo)

  • 4000GB drive (raid-1, 2x4000GB preferred, or higher : if using megaraid_sas or mpt3sas adapter, a recent one that would be supported by el9 kernel)

  • 8GB RAM (>= 8GB preferred)
  • Gbit/sec internet connection (with ipv6 connectivity, so dual-stack)
  • a substantially unlimited outbound monthly bandwidth (we can easily average about 15TiB per machine currently per month on some machines)

Server can be set up with a minimal base install of the current ‘latest’ release, and either a password, or a ssh public key for root access send through that email address, and we will handle an initial audit/reinstall, and slotting into our management and monitoring framework from there

(!) Note: The vast majority of our dedicated servers are in the USA (which we greatly appreciate ... and we can use more there). We have a great need for providers from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the Asia Pacific region to step up and donate dedicated servers as we now have an update system that can balance loads geographically.
(!) Note: If you are an ISP and provide a dedicated server which we can use as a mirror, the CentOS project will manage that server. We will maintain it as an up to date mirror that your local CentOS machines can all use. The end result might be that your users get faster updates
(!) Note: Virtual machines are rarely up to the loads the project's uses can place upon them. However, if you can contribute something that you think is at par with the above mentioned performance level, we would be happy to test it. We might still be able to find use for them within the CentOS Infrastructure.

If you think that your proposal would match these requirements, or that you think you can offer something to the CentOS Project infra, feel free to contact us at donate@centos.org