[PLUG] Lists back up

[Benjamin Kerensa]

Ubuntu Oregon can likely host the PLUG Mailing List and Web. We have a
sponsorship ongoing for all our our web infrastructure and I don't see this
being a issue.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 23:20 -0700, Jason Bergstrom wrote:
> > > I knew this was going happen sooner or later--one of my ancient servers
> > > died--Tuesday afternoon, apparently. Fortunately, it was only the power
> > > supply and I had spares.
> > >
> > > This junk in my basement is on the order of 7-10 years old and I don't
> > > really have the time I used to have to keep stuff going, much less to
> do
> > > anything new. But finally I do have time to help migrate away from my
> > > servers, if there are volunteers who could provide the needed hosting
> > > for mailing lists & web.
>
> > I'd volunteer to host some or all of it.
> >
> > What are the software requirements?
>
> For mailing lists:
> * Mailman (or some other suitable MLM) and everything that goes along
> with that--MTA, spam/AV-scanning, etc.
> * Archives are currently only about 1.4GiB
>
> For web site:
> * Current site is running in a local build of Apache 1.3, for mod_perl &
> HTML::Mason; there is a Python MoinMoin wiki up too. There are some
> plans for re-doing the site; I am not sure what the intention is.
> * Shell access for a handful of people to do edits. (They might be
> amenable to something like source-control repo with an automatic
> check-out.)
>
> For DNS:
> * Authoritative name server and some sort of secondary.
>
> There are other no-cost hosting options that are potentially viable,
> depending on the technologies that are desired for the future.
>
> For example, lists/forums could be done with Nabble and a wiki could be
> done with Wikia and any one of several blog services could be used for
> on-going announcements and such. I've recently discovered that gandi.net
> includes DNS hosting as part of their standard $15/yr registration
> package, so it's conceivable that the whole thing could be outsourced to
> various SaaS providers.
>
> Wil
> --
> Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
>
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