On Sunday 31 May 2009 05:26:33 Juiceman wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Matthew Toseland > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > On Saturday 30 May 2009 11:55:17 Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> We need to get rid of emu. It costs us a significant amount of money and > >> we don't seem able to cost-effecitvely administer it. > >> > >> Basically what we need: > >> - PHP scripts. The website is built with PHP. > > > > But it could easily be all static. > > > >> - Database-backed PHP for MANTIS. I don't think we should get rid of > >> MANTIS. > > > > The consensus is we should get a whole new bug tracker and dump all the old > > issues, maybe run a copy on a developer's machine for checking old bugs. > > IMHO getting rid of the bug database would be a bad thing and lead to > > significant work in migration, but ian, nextgens and sdiz think otherwise. > > > >> - SSL. We need to serve checksums and signatures through SSL, although big > >> files will generally be served through HTTP. It would be nice to serve the > >> installer through SSL if we have a huge traffic limit, since code signing > >> certs are expensive, on the other hand if we get cheaper hosting we can > >> probably afford to buy a code signing cert with a fraction of the money > >> saved... > >> - IMAP accounts ideally, but at least aliases. > > > > - Wiki. We need a wiki. There are free wiki providers. Migrating our > > existing english language wikka wiki will be some work, migrating the > > french mediawiki wiki will be less work. > > > > - Mailing lists. Berlios does this, there are also free mailman sites such > > as: > > http://www.glowhost.com/mailman.php > > > > I don't know what you are paying now, and I have not used them > personally for hosting but Godaddy.com has hosting with unlimited > transfers and has PHP and Mantis, wiki software and email accounts for > $15/month or less and comes with a free SSL cert.
Unlimited transfers = they throttle you down drastically when you get slashdotted, no? Having said that, we might need somewhere to put mantis, if we decide to keep it (although everyone else seems to want to get rid of it). We don't have any other need for php afaik, although we need SSL redirects. > > https://www.godaddy.com/Hosting/shared.aspx?app_hdr=#details -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090601/81e02c24/attachment.pgp>
