> > > - - money/ads/hosting discussions > > Boucman said that there was some offer in > > France for rather string 2GHz machines with many GB harddrive and > > unlimited bandwidth usage. On such a server we could host the > > website including forum and wiki, a mailserver to allow @wesnoth.org > > email addys/aliases for devs, the multiplayer and > > content-servers. Currently there seem to be some problems with the > > confirmation mails at the forum registration. In the last year > > every now and then we had some problems with the servers, so it > > might be a valid idea to change to a server we have full control > > about. > > I don't have much of an opinion about the money/ads issue. But > I have already found us better hosting. > > We have been invited to move our project to ibiblio.org, physically > located at the University of North Carolina. This is one of the > largest open-source hosting sites in the world and the home of many > major projects including Groklaw and the Linux Documentation Project. > My personal site is hosted there, too. If you meet their nonprofit > requirement, use of the site is completely free. > > The site has multiple T3s. It is very well and professionally > administered. We will be able to get shell access, effectively > unlimited disk storage, and I've found them pretty good about > installing site support for whatever tools a project needs. I do not > think our requirement for PHP5 and an up-to-date wikimedia instance > will be any problem at all. > > Ten years ago I did some work on the site that the ibiblio site admins > valued a lot, and I have maintained very friendly relations with them > since -- when I emailed a query about Wesnoth to the chief site admin > he called me back personally less than two hours later to assure me > they'd love to have us. > > So on top of everything else good about the site, we have personal pull > there. I really cannot imagine a better situation. > -- > the service I had in mind is quite cheap and very professional, that's why I offered it...
however I don't have a strong opinion either way, and as long as we can host most/all our services at a single location, I'm happy with whatever comes out of that. question : how would we organize such a migration ?
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