But it would be recommended that if we are getting offers from commercial web hosting services for our website we should accept and make them the primary mirror location. Firstly, they offer control panel services that make managing the website easier and thus ready made to go (not to say that we couldn't set that up ourselves). Secondly, we're working with commercial businesses and opening up new opportunities to expand our relationship with them e.g. provision of resources for installfests, possible funding/sponsorships for public events etc. Thirdly, they're in the webhosting business, so we have coverage for failovers, redundancy etc. though not 100% guaranteed of course.
Nows its just the matter of choosing the right web host/location. The only reason why I was pushing Train Yard was because that was the only offer that I knew off besides Smed's from LUG/IP. Now we know of one more which Wayne posted.
I still do understand that by having our own server we have more control and are not as restricted by policies etc. that the commercial web hosts might have. But as of now we definitely have options. We should still decide what kind of content we'd like to offer on our website. AMP obviously seems to be a good combination to start with. PHPNuke, PostNuke or PHP-Website have excellent contect management features. We can build on this further as time goes and as group support grows.
Just my .02.
Jeff
Wayne Hardy wrote:
Jeff, You've opened up a topic which a few of us have discussed but not opened up to the group as a whole. A couple of us are assembling an online server that hamlug can use (when it's ready) and others have offered hosting services. Now I'm starting to think a hamlug virtual server project would be in order to load share between several mirrors and provide a path to our site even if any server goes down. Does anyone want to work on that? wayne
