Hosting and admin for OSIE (was: Domain name)
I have also been offered linuxinschools.org.uk by someone else ...
Not to mention schools.lug.org.uk ... also available for free :-) I agree, domain names are not a problem - lets stick with the established www.ose.org.uk (if thats ok with Malcolm). A more pressing question is hosting - do we have any idea where this beast is to live ? If I recall correctly, there was the offer of: - fensystems - uk debian There are also community sites like lug.org.uk. Also uklinux.net will host community projects for free, which keeps things away from personal machines (presumably providing some sort of backup/multiple DNS/etc). I don't know how these compare ... (doesn't lfsp use uklinux.net at the moment ?) It may be that the admin of the group could be via something like sourceforge. If there is real code to be maintained for the site and developed (there is - Michaels) and the ideas of 'things to do' and an 'admin team' that are supporting the site in general, then it may be that sourceforge could act as a home for all the admin side of things (mailing lists, bug reports, requests for things to do, discussions beween admins etc). Just an idea. Kevin.
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 kevin.taylor@powerconv.alstom.com wrote:
I agree, domain names are not a problem - lets stick with the established www.ose.org.uk (if thats ok with Malcolm).
So how *do* you pronounce "ose"? "Close" as in proximity, "closed" as in shut or spelt out as "O - S - E" (which, if you say it fast enough, turns into "osie")? :-)
A more pressing question is hosting - do we have any idea where this beast is to live ? If I recall correctly, there was the offer of: - fensystems - uk debian There are also community sites like lug.org.uk. Also uklinux.net will host community projects for free, which keeps things away from personal machines (presumably providing some sort of backup/multiple DNS/etc). I don't know how these compare ... (doesn't lfsp use uklinux.net at the moment ?)
The main restriction is likely to be that we need a server on which we can get full root access, because it would be good to be able to install and run arbitrary programs (e.g. ht://Dig, PHP, PostgreSQL, Duck etc.) so that the Resource Library can include active demonstrations where possible. I can't make claims on behalf of the other servers on offer, but the Fen Systems server is a real (not virtual) server to which we will have root access. It has 100Mbit connection, several GB of space and is hosted in Docklands, close to LINX. It would be preferable to have at least two servers, to add some redundancy - I think the Debian server had similar connectivity etc.? Michael
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 kevin.taylor@powerconv.alstom.com wrote:
I agree, domain names are not a problem - lets stick with the established www.ose.org.uk (if thats ok with Malcolm).
So how *do* you pronounce "ose"? "Close" as in proximity, "closed" as in shut or spelt out as "O - S - E" (which, if you say it fast enough, turns into "osie")? :-)
Or even "Oscar, Sierra, Echo" :)
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kevin.taylor@powerconv.alstom.com
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Mark Evans
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Michael Brown