<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Some notes on the Server meeting this evening (6/2/2011):<div>
<br></div><div>Attendees: Dennis Perkins, Shawn Perry, David Anselmi. Matt Dew, Collins Richey, David Willson, Chris Fedde.</div><div><br></div><div>Summary:</div><div><br></div><div>Last evenings meeting was mostly a free format discussion of issues relating to website and email services for CLUE, Proposals included "basement hosting" vs VPS vs "website hosting". Also included was a discussion of web site technologies including Drupal vs the current site and other possible technologies. A plan was agreed to evaluate the website hosting service as a potential candidate.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Discussion:</div><div><br></div><div>Basement server was taken first. The idea here is that a few members volunteer services of a linux server at their home, office or other location. Each location would be configured to mirror content from a "master" and DNS round robin would be used to support HA and disaster recovery scenarios. Issues of static IP vs dynamic DNS were discussed and consensus was that this could work as several members have the skills required to acomplish this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>VPS was discussed briefly. It was suggested that cost and scope of administrative responsibility were beyond the desires of the attendees at this meeting. Though this does not in anyway preclude other members from working through current VPS based evaluations.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A short discussion of the Drupal direction vs some other approach occurred. Discussion about the effort and value of the content in the existing drupal site was given in support of continuing in that direction. No opposition was given.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Web hosting via bluehost was advocated by Shawn. The service is cheap and has few limits supports drupal and mailman. He offered to provide a trial and a set of steps was approved by the group attending.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Bluehosting evaluation steps are as follows:</div><div><br></div><div>1 Shawn to provision service and to coordinate with Collins to receive existing Dupal site content and make it available.</div><div>
<br></div><div>2 Once Shawn deems the demo site operational he will notify Dennis and Collins who will do an initial "User Acceptance Test" (UAT).</div><div><br></div><div>3 On success of the initial UAT Dennis or Collins will let David Wilson schedule a full scale UAT and load spike generation soliciting willing participants in this list to target the site at some scheduled two hour window. </div>
<div><br></div><div>4 Following the succesfull full UAT and load test a burn in period will pass.</div><div><br></div><div>5 After the burn in of a week or so announcemts will be made and a call for members to advise and consent to the new site before DNS changes are made.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As always I ask for your feedback questions and concerns.</div><div>chris</div><div><br></div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:16 AM, YES NOPE9 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yes@nope9.com">yes@nope9.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><p></p><table border="0"><tbody><tr><th align="left">Subject:</th><td>CLUE Server Meeting</td>
</tr><tr><th align="left">Organizer:</th><td>"David L. Willson" <<a href="mailto:DLWillson@TheGeek.NU" target="_blank">DLWillson@TheGeek.NU</a>></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><table border="0"><tbody><tr>
<th align="left">Location:</th><td>Panera Bread, 2566 South Colorado Blvd</td></tr><tr><th align="left">Time:</th><td>Thursday, June 2, 2011, 7:00:00 PM - 9:00:00 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p></p><p></p><table border="0"><tbody><tr><th align="left">Invitees:</th><td><a href="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org" target="_blank">clue@cluedenver.org</a><br><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div><br></div><div>Purpose: Yack about the CLUE server, the hosting service, the website support , the mail-list support.</div>
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