[SGVLUG] Website / Mailing List Updates, Ideas

[Dan Buthusiem]

Ah. Yes, that's what I had in mind initially, but I also have a web
host I'm not really using much. I have the "1and1 Unlimited" plan at
1and1.com. If it looks like it might be useful at all, I'd be willing
to host the site or whatever part on it. I've had my account there for
a few years now, and I'm not looking to go anywhere. Also, it's hosted
with Linux. ;) Just figured I'd offer if it'd help.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 20:10, James McDuffie <mcduffie at pitfall.org> wrote:
> 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.