[AktiviX-discuss] RFC please .. devloping our infrastructure

[scott]

hi,

ok, i'm a little bit not able to answer this now (had fun tonight!) but i'd like
to say that a) tachanka is still a possibility - i think that we should discuss
this more; b) it would be good to try to develop something along the tachanka
model, even if this is different technically.

i'd like to discuss this more.... i don't have much time over the coming days,
but i'll ensure i am able to respond to this.

peace,

	--scott

Alan Dawson wrote:
> Future for the aktivix server services
> 
> Hi,  since the problems with the tachanka server I put the lists back onto our
> old ( and now not so well maintained ) server springnight.burngreave.net
> 
> I don't know how other people feel about this but for me this was a retrogade
> step ( but unfortunately necessary ). 
> 
> for a couple of reasons:-
> 1.  we'd put some effort into moving the list services to a much more powerful
> machine, and this has been not used.
> 2.  we were able to make some headway into decentralising the administration,
> and strategies to make further progress in that direction.
> 3.  The new machine met much more of the criteria from
> 
> http://stamp.poivron.org/SecurityProtocolsWorkingGroup/DraftTwo
> http://stamp.poivron.org/SecurityProtocolsWorkingGroup/DraftTwo/Comments
>   
> which we are working on at the http://stamp.poivron.org/DigitalStruggles event.
> 
> 
> I'm guessing that most of us will agree that 
> 
> 1.  Decentralising our administration is good - it will help us provide
> services
> better
> 2.  Making the server software and hardware more resistant to vunerability and
> seizure, protects our data.
> 
> So ..  how to move the services and the way we deliver them forward.
> 
> 
> The machine we currently use to provide email and lists would need much changes
> to it to bring it forward, and is now quite aged, so rather invest more time
> and money in it we could use our energy on new hardware.
> 
> There are number of options available to us
> 
> chrisc has put some here 
> https://wiki.slugbug.org.uk/Managed_Servers
> 
> r7 and I have access to another community server - quite well specified ( dual
> opteron processors 2GByte RAM, and 750GB disk space (4*250GB in RAID 5
> confuration)
> It would need some work also before it could be used by us, but this should not
> be too strenous.  I can provide more details if required.
> 
> Finance 
> -------
> 
> I think we should ask the alt-media-res people for some payment for services we
> provide for them.  This could be used for hosting costs, or hardware or
> whatever...
> 
> Other than that ..  what do you think ?  We need to get some consensus on how
> to
> progress this.. before some critical failure happens to us
> 
>