[SGVLUG] Website / Mailing List Updates, Ideas

[James McDuffie]

On 04/18/2012 03:14 PM, Dan Buthusiem wrote:
> I can host it in a VM on my VM rig. Just let me know what you need.

Dan,

When you say "VM rig" are you referring to something on a machine in 
your house, or a dedicated machine at some data center which you have 
set up for virtual machines?

If its a machine at home I would err away from this solution since this 
is exactly what Michael has currently running the list and something I 
think we should move away from. Why? Well see slide 6 of my previously 
presented VPS presentation:
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dfbp4hbc_24f679j7db

I have an unused VPS sitting out there in cloud land that only costs me 
$15 a year. Theoretically we could top off my credits to keep that 
running for years even if I were to be hit by a truck or something.

What I think is best is that we set up some sort of redundant system 
where multiple people can host backups of the main mailing list server 
using MX records and rsync to help us out there. Due to the nature of 
the club I think its best to come up with some sort of no single point 
failure solution. I don't want the mailing list to go down because I 
didn't have time or wasn't able to reboot a server or if some other bad 
event happened.

Mailman looks non-trivial to set up and I am looking into what would be 
necessary for a solution that allows seamless fall over to alternative 
servers. Once I have that all understood I would build a shell script to 
help "slave" nodes configure a mailman instance. But, it looks like this 
will take a wee bit of time to figure out.