For mail, have you considered switching to say, Google Groups, so you don't have to worry about issues like disk space?
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > The SeaPIG server had some hiccups today. It ran out of disk space this > morning and began bouncing mails, and at noon it got CPU-overwhelmed and I > rebooted it. From the logs it looks like a blast of wiki spam, lots of > requests like "http://seapig.org/LuciaWBWW?action=login";, with different > first names and a robust number of last initials. And lovely referers like " > http://blo.gs/ping.php"; and " > http://www.seapig.org/couponst7?action=newaccount";. Sometimes it's fun > to look at logs for gems like these. > > And one extremely suspicious user, " > http://www.seapig.org/BrianDorsey?action=login";. :) Did you get a wiki > error at 9:38 this morning? That was when the disk was full. > > The upshot is that list mail and the wiki may be unreliable over the next > few weeks until I can rebuilt it with Ubuntu 13.04, which is expected later > this month and which hopefully Linode will support soon. So I'm partly > testing the mailing list and also... > > When will the next meeting be? Its normal day would have been yesterday. > We should do a PyCon recap before too long while it's still fresh in > people's minds. Shall we do something in the next week or two or wait till > May? Shall we have it on a non-Thursday for the sake of those who are > always busy Thursdays? > > Also, the annual server bill is coming April 30th, for $240. So I'm > looking for contributions to help offset the cost. If you want to > contribute, you can email me, use my PayPal account (same address), or see > me at a meeting. > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> >
