Ubuntu Oregon can likely host the PLUG Mailing List and Web. We have a sponsorship ongoing for all our our web infrastructure and I don't see this being a issue.
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Wil Cooley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- > Wil Cooley <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
