[axxs-sysadmin] a proposal

[aketus]

> On Thu, 31 May 2007, andy nicholson wrote:
>
>> I think there needs to be a some thought to when to _stop_ taking new
>> hosting requests.
>> Obviously this didnt happen on the first server, and consequently became
>> unusable without rebooting various services daily.

I don't know about 'stopping' taking new hosting requests. I thought  
the idea was to get appropriate individuals or individuals from orgs  
wanting hosting on axxs to come on board in the collective and help  
maintain the server(s).

Obviously the idea being that the more hosting of sites = the more  
individuals willing to maintain the collective of sites and donate =  
more self-management = potentially more servers collectively maintained.

Which of course = more online communities under self-management.

To me it seems crazy for a collective promoting self-management &  
organisation to effectively say 'let's build online communities... but  
only a few...' surely the aim is the opposite - the more the merrier.

I think the problem with axxs overload was having just the one server,  
is all. I hope we get more hosting requests, get more people into the  
collective, and have more donations coming from these organisations,  
and end up with one mother of an axxs server farm all sharing the load  
:)

Ideally the more hosting requests we approve, the collective of geeks  
will grow, and also I'd like to see donations grow. Everytime a server  
reaches its healthy peak of sites hosted on it, it ought to be  
feasible to get a new server and grow exponentially. (i hope this  
works in practice)

aketus