[Sysadmin] Re: Lists Hosting

[Dean Mah]

Okay, I haven't heard anything against this proposal so I will forward
it to theforum for feedback and then we should be ready to go next
week.

Dean

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 05:46:08PM -0600, Dean Mah wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I think it's time to address the hosting of the lists.  The lists are
> currently being hosted on a server that was never intended for that
> use and shares space with a number of other unrelated services.  The
> server is also being paid for by a few people rather than by evolt.org
> itself.
> 
> The host ServerMatrix (http://www.servermatrix.com/) has been
> proposed.  For about $1000 a year, we'll get a TB of data transfer.
> It appears that we would have enough money to fund the server for the
> year.  Then we would rely on donations and pledges by members of the
> community to keep it going.
> 
> If the majority of people agree that this is a good idea, I will push
> the proposal to theforum and finance to see if it is acceptable.  If
> it is, I suggest that we move as soon as possible (within a few
> months).  We need to get certain patches applied to the server and
> software upgraded and it makes sense to do this all at once on a new
> server rather than staging something on the existing one.
> 
> So I'd like to get a discussion/vote on this issue.  If we could have
> feedback by next week or earlier would be appreciated.
> 
> Dean