El Sat, 25-04-2015 a las 10:36 -0400, Jim Garrett escribió: > However, I'm not an experienced system admin, and this world I > envision involves people who are also not experienced sys-admins > running servers. Hence a few questions: > 1. Am I correct in thinking that running a server for this > purpose requires a static IP address?
Not expierienced either but I think that is the case as well (similar to hosting a website I think). Also check with your ISP if they are OK with it. There are probably other issues such as upload speed. Maybe you need to co-locate your server? > 1. Lots of inexperienced people running servers sounds like a > large-scale security disaster waiting to happen. Is there any > way this could be managed? This is a very good question, but I am guessing it is about following the instructions and keeping software up to date. But if anything, I assume it will be small scale since they are normally federated. I am subscribed to the gnuMediaGoblin mailing list and it seems that there are some experts that are OK with some hand-holding durring the setup process. I have seen similar things in gnusocial. I guess the best course of action is to subscribe to the development mailing list of the social media you want to host and ask there. It is a great power you will give people around you but also a great responsability. I was going to try for something not too critical and small to start with and go from there. Good luck!
