[clue-admin] Future Web Site

[Raymond de Roo]

Dan--

> Alright, separating out by functionality is just fine.  But you all act as if a VPS is a single point of failure.  This isn't completely true.  In a sense, if the host machine fails your instance is down until it is migrated.  The last time this happened my site was down for 5 minutes and they called me to let me know what was happening before I knew about it.  The RAID is not local to the box, it is network based.  

A VPS, kvm, bare metal machine *is* a SPOF. It's great you had a good experience with what sounds like a Vmotion move. The fact that DASD is NFS based really doesn't not give me great encouragement for MySQL  performance... which drupal already does it's best to kill.


> As for showing work, while I feel I have shown what I can do, this is obviously not quite enough yet.  

Dan, my statement wasn't a slam against any one person. I just want someone to post a message like "Hey, I rebuilt the CLUE website using $MY_FAVORITE_CMS and would like others to take a look and ideally provide some feedback. I think my solution is better than the existing because a)... b)... c)... d)..."
 
> So I am not discounting any ideas here, I just want everyone to be on the same page on redundancy for a VPS provider (a good one, not the $5 FSCK VPS services out there).

The idea of having multiple people "running" the clue site from their personal machines has some real appeal to me. It's an interesting technical "problem" I'd like work on solving. The "downside" to drupal from this perspective means I ( and/or others ) will have to go in and rewrite the MySQL layer yet again. :( Did that once, it sucked; I can't imagine it's gotten any better in later releases. 

> I will be working on the Drupal site because everyone wants results, including me.  Work has been done to get things setup, so the first step is complete.  I have verbal promises that I will get the Drupal 7 work sent to me and that will help accelerate this.  I invite anyone who would like to also contribute to let me know so I can setup an account and I won't be blocking your ability to work.  

I am much more interested in the backend than the CMS. Other than offering to speak if I am in town at the same time a meeting is happening, I foresee myself as being a consumer of content, not a contributor. Now optimizing LAMP is interesting to me, so if you are offering ssh access with limited sudo rights, then I would be very interested. 

Raymond