Admin: Moving the list
As I mentioned in passing the other day, I'm planning to move everything off the server I operate at home and on to a hosted solution. Soon, I'll move the list to www.nickarnett.net, which is hosted at Bluehost. After I've done that and moved some other stuff there, I'll move the mccmedia.com domain name also. I'm trying to do this with as little list disruption as possible. But don't be surprised if you see activity related to the move. Sorry about the domain name switch, but I'll make that as painless as possible by forwarding the current list address to the new one until I take down the current server. The archives will be disrupted. I couldn't find a hosted solution (at a reasonable cost, anyway) that gives me access to the archive directories. That means there's no easy way to move the old archive to the new location. I'll probably start by just having two archives, split on the date that the list moves. But I'm working on some tools that should improve the archive in other ways while consolidating it. I now have all of the current archived messages in a database... and I'm going to dig up older archives from my, er, archives and add them. Thus, we'll end up with a more complete archive -- and a way I can run a lot more statistics, which might be fun, at least. I was hoping to find an open-source discussion platform that would allow me to easily import the archived messages, so that we would have the benefits of a mailing list and web forums... haven't found such a thing yet. I considered using a wiki for that purpose and still might go that route. Your suggestions are welcome, of course. By the way, one benefit of the move should be higher availability. Things have been stable lately, but we are susceptible to power and network outages in ways that a hosted solution shouldn't be. Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Admin: Moving the list
From: Nick Arnett narn...@mccmedia.com I was hoping to find an open-source discussion platform that would allow me to easily import the archived messages, so that we would have the benefits of a mailing list and web forums... haven't found such a thing yet. I considered using a wiki for that purpose and still might go that route. Your suggestions are welcome, of course. Hi Nick, if you do decide to go the wiki route, you should try www.wikidot.com I've been using it for a few months. It is a really good host and it you get 5 x 300MB sites for free. Regards, Wayne Eddy. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Admin: Moving the list
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Wayne Eddy we...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Nick, if you do decide to go the wiki route, you should try www.wikidot.com I've been using it for a few months. It is a really good host and it you get 5 x 300MB sites for free. I'm happy with Bluehost (except for the lack of back-end access to Mailman archives)... the issue is more to do with which technology to use for archiving. They offer several kinds of wikis... I was tempted by MoinMoin because it is Python-based. Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Admin: Moving the list
Original Message: - From: Nick Arnett narn...@mccmedia.com Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:59:01 -0800 To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Admin: Moving the list I'm happy with Bluehost (except for the lack of back-end access to Mailman archives)... the issue is more to do with which technology to use for archiving. They offer several kinds of wikis... I was tempted by MoinMoin because it is Python-based. Which allows you to run the list while showing your computer the full Monty? Dan M. mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
