As some of you may have seen on Twitter or elsewhere, Joyent has rather
controversially ended its commitment to hosting those of its customers
who bought Lifetime accounts:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/ex-joyeurs
I was one of those Lifetimers :-(
That means that I've got to find a new host for my own blog and a few
other things, but more urgently, I need to find a new home for this
mailing list. This is currently hosted on Joyent and I suspect that it
might be somewhat of a pain to move. Luckily we had already moved the
getontracks.org site off Joyent on to Github, so we don't have to sort
that out.
Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions for what we should do? The
problem is that they are just deleting everything at the end of October,
which give me very little time to act (I have a holiday coming up in
just over a week, and then the very busy start of term).
The way I see it, we have a few alternatives (not necessarily mutually
exclusive):
* Just find somewhere to archive the old mailing list (static HTML if I
can get it?) and move to a new system
* I could see if I could set up a new mailing list at my new host
(wherever that might be) and try to port it over
* Start afresh and ditch the archives
* something else?
I'm not even sure what's out there in terms of Mailman alternatives?
I've seen a few specialist mailing list providers, but they are
typically set up for large commercial ventures and so are overkill/too
expensive for what we need.
HALP! :-( Any suggestions welcome.
cheers,
bsag
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but she's a girl - the weblog of a female geek
http://www.rousette.org.uk
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