[clue-admin] Future Hosting Plans

[Greg Knaddison]

Among about 6 other hosting companies, I use Dreamhost shared and
"virtual private server" and they offer all these things.  The private
server would have much better performance (and is scalable with a
slider on a control panel - from 150MB to 2GB of RAM and corresponding
CPU).  The costs are pretty low - $5/month or so for shared, $15/month
for VPS.  The manage all operating system/webserver updates.

Lots of people dislike Dreamhost, but for the
price/maintenance/features I think it's a decent choice for some
specific situations.  This seems like one of them.

Greg

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:50 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> BTW, we probably should stop advertising memberships on the home page.
>
> Jed S. Baer wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folks.
>>
>> Time is running shorter. The old thread on this is:
>>
>> http://cluedenver.org/pipermail/clue-admin/2009-June/003490.html
>
> So here's my summary of our requirements:
>
> 1) affordable
>
> 2) someone else's hardware
>
> 3) no sysadmin required (but we have one if necessary)
>
> 4) mailman (with storage for the archives), PHP, version control for the web
> pages, backups of the VCS repository, mail archives, and apache/mailman
> configurations
>
> 5) an "easy enough" mechanism to update web pages (mailman config is built
> in but it was nice to be able to use the command line since I had sudo but
> not list admin)
>
> Feel free to add on but I think that's pretty complete.
>
> How much do suitable alternatives cost?
>
> We need version control.  But it doesn't have to be on the server.  We can
> figure out a system to use git or hg and then Jed, Dennis, and I (and
> whoever) can keep copies of the "official" repository.  (I'd like to learn
> that but other solutions are fine too.)
>
> We need backups, but keeping everything in VCS with multiple repositories is
> probably OK.  If the host guarantees data that might be good enough too.
>
> We need a web site:
> - provides archives to the net: I think it's important that our discussions
> happen "in public", both for our users and the rest of the Linux world
> (ditto for our meeting presentations)
>
> - provides the info for installfest: I'm sure this gets used because I don't
> repeat all the content in my emails (ditto for other meetings)
>
> - provides our identity and a way for people to find us: gopher (and archie)
> are dead.  If we're not on Google we don't exist.
>
> Dave
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