On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 23:20 -0700, Jason Bergstrom wrote: 
> > I knew this was going happen sooner or later--one of my ancient servers
> > died--Tuesday afternoon, apparently. Fortunately, it was only the power
> > supply and I had spares.
> > 
> > This junk in my basement is on the order of 7-10 years old and I don't
> > really have the time I used to have to keep stuff going, much less to do
> > anything new. But finally I do have time to help migrate away from my
> > servers, if there are volunteers who could provide the needed hosting
> > for mailing lists & web.

> I'd volunteer to host some or all of it.
> 
> What are the software requirements?

For mailing lists:
* Mailman (or some other suitable MLM) and everything that goes along
with that--MTA, spam/AV-scanning, etc.
* Archives are currently only about 1.4GiB

For web site:
* Current site is running in a local build of Apache 1.3, for mod_perl &
HTML::Mason; there is a Python MoinMoin wiki up too. There are some
plans for re-doing the site; I am not sure what the intention is.
* Shell access for a handful of people to do edits. (They might be
amenable to something like source-control repo with an automatic
check-out.)

For DNS:
* Authoritative name server and some sort of secondary.

There are other no-cost hosting options that are potentially viable,
depending on the technologies that are desired for the future.

For example, lists/forums could be done with Nabble and a wiki could be
done with Wikia and any one of several blog services could be used for
on-going announcements and such. I've recently discovered that gandi.net
includes DNS hosting as part of their standard $15/yr registration
package, so it's conceivable that the whole thing could be outsourced to
various SaaS providers.

Wil
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Wil Cooley <[email protected]>

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