On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 01:19:31PM -0800, Jeff Sheltren wrote: > 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.
(fwiw, I'd agree that we should be willing to use centralized services such as DNS and databases instead of running those locally.) Just a quick ping -- what's the status on this? Is there an email I missed that I need to reply to? -- Ian Weller <i...@ianweller.org> Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com
pgpI9lT2COefX.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
