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