Ian, thanks for the note. We setup a VM for Karsten to test out phpbb a while back -- Karsten, should we consider that a lost cause and reclaim that VM for general TOS use?
A large part of the benefit of hosting something at the OSL is that we have students and full-time staff dedicated to providing hosting and system administration services. We automate most everything in cfengine (soon puppet), and have experience scaling for very large communities / high traffic sites. Should you choose to have full root access on a machine and maintain it yourself, then you would be missing out on a lot of these benefits. That said, if the TOS community agrees that having their own sys admin team is the way to go, we're glad to provide full root access on a VM -- it just means we'll be less able to help should something go wrong with the server/services. We also have a lot of centralized services like I mentioned on IRC -- mailman, DNS, mysql, postresql, etc. and we would urge you to use those as much as possible instead of running those services locally on your VM. -Jeff 2011/2/7 Ian Weller <i...@ianweller.org>: > Jeff, > > After today's ad-hoc discussion in #teachingopensource [1], Chris and I > agreed that we ought to request a VM with root access for the > TeachingOpenSource.org community. > > [1]: > http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource/2011-02-07/teachingopensource.2011-02-07-21.37.log.html > > For everyone else on tos@: The goal is to have a team of TOS volunteers > complete the following tasks by SIGSCE (second week of March): > > - new server set up with shared root access (AFAIK, Chris and I are > volunteering; anyone else?) > - MediaWiki instance set up on new server > - extension installed to deal with spam problem > - mailman moved over > - a place to point people who want to help with infra (likely wiki) > - a place for people to discuss what future services TOS should provide > > If you're interested in helping, add your name under Members here: > http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Infrastructure_Team > (the rest of that page is going to change rapidly as the evening > progresses.) > > -- > Ian Weller <i...@ianweller.org> > Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
