On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Matthew Toseland
<toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 30 May 2009 11:55:17 Matthew Toseland wrote:
>> We need to get rid of emu. It costs us a significant amount of money and we 
>> don't seem able to cost-effecitvely administer it.
>>
>> Basically what we need:
>> - PHP scripts. The website is built with PHP.
>
> But it could easily be all static.
>
>> - Database-backed PHP for MANTIS. I don't think we should get rid of MANTIS.
>
> The consensus is we should get a whole new bug tracker and dump all the old 
> issues, maybe run a copy on a developer's machine for checking old bugs. IMHO 
> getting rid of the bug database would be a bad thing and lead to significant 
> work in migration, but ian, nextgens and sdiz think otherwise.
>
>> - SSL. We need to serve checksums and signatures through SSL, although big 
>> files will generally be served through HTTP. It would be nice to serve the 
>> installer through SSL if we have a huge traffic limit, since code signing 
>> certs are expensive, on the other hand if we get cheaper hosting we can 
>> probably afford to buy a code signing cert with a fraction of the money 
>> saved...
>> - IMAP accounts ideally, but at least aliases.
>
> - Wiki. We need a wiki. There are free wiki providers. Migrating our existing 
> english language wikka wiki will be some work, migrating the french mediawiki 
> wiki will be less work.
>
> - Mailing lists. Berlios does this, there are also free mailman sites such as:
> http://www.glowhost.com/mailman.php
>

I don't know what you are paying now, and I have not used them
personally for hosting but Godaddy.com has hosting with unlimited
transfers and has PHP and Mantis, wiki software and email accounts for
$15/month or less and comes with a free SSL cert.

https://www.godaddy.com/Hosting/shared.aspx?app_hdr=#details

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