[EMS Discuss] [PROPOSAL] - Transferring hosted services

Mr. Clif EMAIL HIDDEN
Mon Mar 19 15:58:58 PDT 2012 

Just added a cert so SSL auth works on eugenemakerspace.com and 
www.eugenemakerspace.com.
I had a freebe coming to me for a couple of years and didn't have a 
reason to use it yet. It's a chaned cert which is a little klunky but 
the price was right.

     Clif

Mr. Clif wrote:
> Cool!
>
> Yes I surmised that apprehension below. Well it's all moved now, and 
> completely independent of my other stuff. So feel free to jump in and 
> start hacking. I wouldn't even care if you deleted my account, it 
> would force me to get back to work on other things that I am way 
> behind on. ;-)
>
> It's a basic Debian system, though some of the apps we use don't have 
> deb packages so they were generally unpacked into /var/www.
>
> The webmin page is sometimes convenient for quick changes but I tend 
> to edit the config files by hand myself.
>
>     Ciao,
>     Clif
>
> Ellery Weber wrote:
>> FYI - I don't mind being an Admin, but I didn't do much since you were
>> handling pretty much everything and it was on your server (I was a 
>> little
>> apprehensive about messing with anything because it was your shared HW).
>> Once everything is moved, i'll have no issues working on it.
>>
>>
>> --- Ellery Weber
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Mr. Clif<EMAIL HIDDEN>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hey gang,
>>>
>>> So maybe we should ask for sysadmin volunteers since whatever we do
>>> someone will have to take care of the system. It can be fun, it's an
>>> opportunity to learn a skill that you could put on your resume, and 
>>> it's a
>>> way to serve the EMS community.
>>>
>>> There are two other members who have root access right now, but I 
>>> get the
>>> feeling that they probably don't want to be admins since I've asked 
>>> around
>>> a couple of times before.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Ciao,
>>>     Clif
>>>
>>> Mr. Clif wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well,
>>>>
>>>> I just got the first step done. It's on a new box that was unused 
>>>> in the
>>>> rack with the others. The image is about 4.7GB uncompressed, that's 
>>>> with
>>>> pretty much just what EMS is using.
>>>>
>>>>     Ciao,
>>>>     Clif
>>>>
>>>> Mr. Clif wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes I also agree.
>>>>>
>>>>>  From the start I was looking for other sysadmins to help me with the
>>>>> system. A couple problems were that initially there were a small 
>>>>> group of
>>>>> us and perhaps they didn't have the skill set to do that much. 
>>>>> Also the EMS
>>>>> corner was part of a larger multi hosted site. Now I think there 
>>>>> are more
>>>>> skilled sysadmins out there, and it's a good time to split the EMS 
>>>>> stuff
>>>>> out into it's own image. This would make it easy to move around to 
>>>>> another
>>>>> physical or virtual machine. Some added benefits are we could get 
>>>>> our own
>>>>> certificate and par down the wiki to just EMS stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>> My vision of sometime in the future would be to have a small rack 
>>>>> in the
>>>>> corner of EMS with a couple of servers and maybe a patch panel. 
>>>>> Two or
>>>>> three sysadmins to take care of it. I have a small rack in my 
>>>>> garage on
>>>>> comcast and it works great! I would be proud to see that come to 
>>>>> pass, and
>>>>> I think others would appreciate that sense of self sufficiency. I 
>>>>> am not
>>>>> attached to being one of the sysadmins at all, I would rather just 
>>>>> help if
>>>>> someone gets stuck. I'm not sure how fast all this could happen, 
>>>>> it just
>>>>> depends on how many hands there are to help, but I see the process 
>>>>> like
>>>>> this:
>>>>>
>>>>> Make an EMS image.
>>>>> Get other sysadmins up to speed.
>>>>> Move it wherever you want.
>>>>> Take care of it.
>>>>>
>>>>> The middle steps could be switched.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Ciao,
>>>>>     Clif
>>>>>
>>>>> Dirk Godsey wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> +1
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> On Mar 12, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Ellery Weber<EMAIL HIDDEN>
>>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   +1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --- Ellery Weber
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Ben Hallert<EMAIL HIDDEN>   
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> This makes sense, that's how we do stuff like this in another group
>>>>>>> I'm a part of too.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Ben
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:51 PM, InEugene<EMAIL HIDDEN>   
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Agree.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - Nathan
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 3/12/2012 3:40 PM, Rick Osgood wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I wanted to make a proposal for a topic of discussion at our
>>>>>>>>> membership meeting.  I would like to talk about moving our hosted
>>>>>>>>> services (website, email, etc) to equipment or accounts owned by
>>>>>>>>> Eugene Maker Space rather than any one member.  I think this is a
>>>>>>>>> natural evolutionary step for Eugene Maker Space.  We should have
>>>>>>>>> Internet at the shop in the next couple of weeks so we could host
>>>>>>>>> everything there, or we might be able to get a free EMS owned web
>>>>>>>>> hosting account with a larger hosting provider now that we 
>>>>>>>>> have 501c3
>>>>>>>>> sponsorship.  There are several options.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I would like to discuss our options at the next membership 
>>>>>>>>> meeting
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> perhaps make a decision if we all feel like we have enough
>>>>>>>>> information
>>>>>>>>> to do so.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Does anyone else have thoughts about this?
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