Sorry for not getting back to this sooner. Work and drinking beer seem to have consumed all my time for the past few days.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015, at 03:21 PM, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 02:12:39PM +0000, Robert McWilliam wrote: > > What is the objection to hosting it on garioch? Resource issues: > * Semantic MediaWiki has an RDF backend. RDF is not resource > friendly and adequate room should be allowed for the triplestore > to grow. > * The cost incurred to bring garioch up to a specification where it > would not lead to increased page load times and potential crashes > where resource limits are reached would not be insignificant. > * We have had issues when uploading high resolution images to the > wiki on garioch as not enough memory has been available to perform > image thumbnailing, so resources need to be allowed for this. We can get more resources. EIther upgrading garioch or getting another server. Andy's link to Linode put the cost of that at $10/month for the spec you said was currently needed, possibly rising to $20/month as the wiki grows. I think we should pay that to keep the wiki under space control if we do decide to use semantic mediawiki. Security issues: > * Semantic MediaWiki is a complex PHP application and as such will, > from time to time, have remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. > * garioch currently hosts our mail and DNS systems. These, if > compromised, have far greater potential for causing reputational > harm than the wiki. > * As far as possible, we should also be keeping membership data away > from any potential security issues. If the risk of compromise is this high I'd be more inclined towards not using it. > * Currently, the space enjoys me paying for hackr. I pay for it and > maintain it for the benefit of all space members. I'm not sure what this is doing on this list? The wiki can't be moved elsewhere because you're being generous? Robert -- Robert McWilliam r...@allmail.net www.ormiret.com Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult. _______________________________________________ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss
