From ashcraft at 13monkeys.com Tue Sep 13 15:51:45 2016 From: ashcraft at 13monkeys.com (Jeremy Ashcraft) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:51:45 -0700 Subject: [theforum] Again In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: full steam ahead. glad someone's still looking after things On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 5:08 PM, William Anderson wrote: > Good evening, gentle evolters. > > In the spirit of transparency, and knowing that everyone doesn't look > at the archives for the sysadmin list every day, here is some > information. > > Mail to @evolt.org was knocked out for a while due to a DNS snafu. > Mail to the lists (such as it is these days) wasn't affected. This is > why there was a wee flurry of mails earlier in the week between Dean, > Dave, John and myself. > > We've corrected the fault, and it's brought back to the fore that > we're still running on antiquated hardware on a dedicated server in > Texas. > > We're formulating a plan where we finally move away from this server > to some cloud instances, which are cheaper to run, and have more CPU > power available to them. > > The current plan (and status) is as follows: > > * Set up alternate server(s) to begin migration (done: a Digital Ocean > virtual machine has been set up in their New York region to handle > list mail, list archives and secondary DNS, another is in their > Singapore region to handle primary DNS; the geographic location is for > the sake of redundancy). > * Move the lists themselves and the archive/signup web parts to the > NYC server (being planned) > * Move the browser archive to another server (TBD: may end up moving > to another instance donated by myself to keep evolt's monthly costs > down) > * ... um, that's it. > > At that point, we'll be able to decommission the old dedicated server. > > The main website with the article archive will remain at GitHub, as it > costs us nothing to host it there. I'm thinking at some point we need > a content refresh for the main page to draw focus back on the lists > rather than the fact that evolt turned 15 three years ago (has it been > that long? evolt will be 20 in 27 months?!?), but that's a low > priority action. > > Everything else that's legacy will remain in mothballs (i.e. > dir.evolt.org, etc). I'm thinking evolters.org really has had it's > chance, and we should let the domain expire when it's due next June. > > The outcome of this will mean the lists stay running, evolt cuts its > costs by over half (including the annual domain renewal), Dean gets a > nicer, more modern environment to manage the lists in, and stuff keeps > working. Oh, and the new servers have sweet names (cerf, after Vint > Cerf, and postel, after Jon Postel, both Internet pioneers ... just > like evolt, but admittedly more cool). > > Unless anyone has any particularly strong feelings about the above, > this is ze plan. And on that note, I'm off to bed :) > > -n > -- > TheForum Archives: http://lists.evolt.org/theforumarchive/ > > evolt.org wiki: http://wiki.evolt.org/ > teamwork site: http://evolt.teamworkpm.net/ >