Re: London.pm Server for Mailing List and Web Site
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 08:44:08AM +, Tom Hukins wrote: [...] The server running this jail is very old, so Exonetric have also provided us with a much newer FreeBSD 8 jail that various people have done some work on migrating us to. I suspect that the lack of volunteers is that there aren't many people with experience with that particular platform, and this isn't overlapping with the set of people willing to spend CFT on maintaining the server. Were it running Debian, say, you'd no doubt have plenty of volunteers, myself included. Perhaps you might want to consider following up on those offers of alternative hosting? :) (Heck, a whole dedicated low-end server at Hetzner is under £250/year and could be easily lost in my hosting bills.)
Re: London.pm Server for Mailing List and Web Site
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 01:41:30PM +, Peter Corlett wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 08:44:08AM +, Tom Hukins wrote: The server running this jail is very old, so Exonetric have also provided us with a much newer FreeBSD 8 jail that various people have done some work on migrating us to. I suspect that the lack of volunteers is that there aren't many people with experience with that particular platform ... Were it running Debian, say, you'd no doubt have plenty of volunteers, myself included. Yes, I agree. One person has offered to help with the migration off-list, but I appreciate the advantage of using a platform that more of us prefer. Perhaps you might want to consider following up on those offers of alternative hosting? :) However, yours is the first alternative offer I remember receiving. Thank you. (Heck, a whole dedicated low-end server at Hetzner is under £250/year and could be easily lost in my hosting bills.) In my opinion, the main advantage of using Exonetric is that they don't charge us and at least two of their staff are London Perl Mongers. I don't worry about the price of a low end server, but remembering to pay would create a recurring task that we musn't neglect. Again, thank you for your offer. I'll get in touch off-list. Tom
Re: London.pm Server for Mailing List and Web Site
A Perl powered mailing list service is available here: http://lists.perlportal.com/sympa/ Lyle On 12/02/2013 08:44, Tom Hukins wrote: Hi all, London.pm runs its mailing lists, Web site and IRC bot from a FreeBSD jail called windmill kindly hosted by Exonetric. The server running this jail is very old, so Exonetric have also provided us with a much newer FreeBSD 8 jail that various people have done some work on migrating us to. However, as far as I can tell work on this has stalled. I want to put my energy for the group into organiastional tasks and I suspect others have other things they would rather do. Before I start thinking about moving away from our own server to standard pm.org infrastructure I thought I should ask whether anyone wants to complete the work done so far. Please note, I'm not asking for alternative offers of hosting. We have a server. We just don't seem to have people willing to configure, update and maintain a server. I have no problem with that, but I thought I should check this is the case before changing anything. Tom
London.pm Server for Mailing List and Web Site
Hi all, London.pm runs its mailing lists, Web site and IRC bot from a FreeBSD jail called windmill kindly hosted by Exonetric. The server running this jail is very old, so Exonetric have also provided us with a much newer FreeBSD 8 jail that various people have done some work on migrating us to. However, as far as I can tell work on this has stalled. I want to put my energy for the group into organiastional tasks and I suspect others have other things they would rather do. Before I start thinking about moving away from our own server to standard pm.org infrastructure I thought I should ask whether anyone wants to complete the work done so far. Please note, I'm not asking for alternative offers of hosting. We have a server. We just don't seem to have people willing to configure, update and maintain a server. I have no problem with that, but I thought I should check this is the case before changing anything. Tom
