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
