[axxs-sysadmin] hosting request for xtalk

[boud]

On Sat, 5 May 2007, Cameron Gregg wrote:

> aketus wrote:
>> Cameron Gregg wrote:
>>> I imagine melbourne indy would also want to move (i think it should, its
>>> a heavy hitter). Aketus probably wants to move a few of his sites over too??
>>>
>>>
>>> Cam
>>> _______________________________
>> I dunno - I can almost imagine my sites will be running better on the
>> server that *doesn't* have the indymedia sites :-)
>>
>> In seriousness, my sites aren't very heavy - they might do quite well on
>> axxs.org once Apache/mysql is lightened up a bit.
>>
>> Good idea to get the indymedias over first anyway, let me know where I
>> can help with that. And I'll admit I'm curious to see how borg holds up
>> before I think about moving my stuff over :-)
>>
>> Are any other services like webmail moving to Borg? One thing that was
>> really frustrating whilst I was overseas was waiting for Horde to think
>> about opening up my Inbox after logging in, for like 3 to 5 minutes,
>> despite being on high broadbrand. This has been something I've noticed
>> even at work..
>>
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> this is how I thought we were gonna do it:
>
> axxs.org: Plesk administered box. DNS. Mail. Low hit Websites.
>
> borg.axxs.org: raw command line admin. Webserver only for heavy hitting
> sites / sites where sudoer is available. And also secondary DNS.

My idea for samzidat sites (torun on its way to becoming indymedia + 
samizdat demo site) is to shift to borg.

This will require email out from borg in order for people to confirm
passwords, and ideally will also accept email *in* for a mobile phone
-> samizdat gateway system, probably only temporarily during important
events like the G8 during the first week of June - just 3 weeks away.

The software for the mobile phone stuff is not ready yet, and it'll be
important that it functions correctly during the G8: both repression and
resistance are likely to be big this time around.


Are people happy to have e.g. postfix as a MTA/MDA (if i have my acronyms
right) on borg?


i don't mean to have webmail, and i propose that it's intended mainly
just for the indymedia etc sites for confirming users or receiving
articles/photos/videos/etc from mobile phones etc.

i've only set up an email system once (well, i tried unsuccessfully with
sendmail, and then tried successfully with postfix), but i think that apart
from DNS for the MX header, it's not anything hugely difficult if you RTFM.
(Says he, forgetting many hours of RTFMing and experimenting...)

solidarity
boud



> I don't see much point in moving services like webmail etc over to borg,
> cause borg is likely to be a loaded server, we will just end up with the
> same situation we have now.
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> More appropriately, I think any site that uses a CMS and database should
> be a canditate for borg. The less websites hitting the database on
> axxs.org the more smoothly plesk and mail will run.
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> And about the sites Im running.
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> Sydney.indymedia.org.au and coffscoastimc.org are currently on my
> vserver. Jura.org.au has been down for maintenance for about a month.
> The only site Im running is arafura.indymedia.org.au. So it is still a
> mystery exactly what the culprits are for all the load.
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> I was under the impression that aptgetanarchy.org and anarchobase.com
> were getting significant hits to the DB at one stage?
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> Cam
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