* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2009-05-30 11:55:17]:
> 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. Well, the website is all about its content; not the engine... I do think that google's website thingy (http://sites.google.com) is more than enough for our purpose. We use to have our own engine and to maintain it in svn on the basis that only devs are contributing to it; Let's face it: even devs don't. The PHP engine we are using is home-grown, high-maintenance cost and its security is debatable (We had many flaws in the past and I bet they are still many others). That's typically one of the things we should delegate... > - Database-backed PHP for MANTIS. I don't think we should get rid of MANTIS. I do think we should; three main reasons: - mantis is just not adapted to our usage anymore (We don't have one single tree anymore) - most reported bugs don't apply - It's really a high-maintenance cost application... Administrating mantis, patching it, keeping it up to date is a PITA What about using github's issue tracking thingy instead? > - 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... We can use sourceforge's/google's distribution infrastructure there too. I'm not sure they do SSL but our current setup doesn't either. > - IMAP accounts ideally, but at least aliases. > For that one I can't think about any alternative right away... http://wiki.list.org/display/COM/Mailman+hosting+services but I'm sure we can find someone doing it there. > What we do NOT need: > - Auto-build. This is difficult to secure, and not really compatible with a > secure git-based workflow. > > Anything I've missed? > > One option: > > http://www.uk2.net/web-hosting/ > > Includes SSL, IMAP, 1TB traffic per month (bandwidth is very expensive with > bytemark, even if we qualified for the 50% discount for the main distributor > of free software), domain hosting, and a (very basic) uptime SLA, for ?13.95 > to ?19.95/mo depending on how long we buy it for (2 years down to 1 month). > > Thoughts? I don't like your option, their SLA is a joke and we can probably get the same thing for free from google/sourceforge/... 30sec of googleing returned me that link: http://www.ibiblio.org/fosphost/exhost.htm My $0.02 NextGen$ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090530/adfb81c7/attachment.pgp>
