[TOS] request for VM at OSUOSL

[Ian Weller]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 01:19:31PM -0800, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> Ian, thanks for the note.  We setup a VM for Karsten to test out phpbb
> a while back -- Karsten, should we consider that a lost cause and
> reclaim that VM for general TOS use?
> 
> A large part of the benefit of hosting something at the OSL is that we
> have students and full-time staff dedicated to providing hosting and
> system administration services.  We automate most everything in
> cfengine (soon puppet), and have experience scaling for very large
> communities / high traffic sites.  Should you choose to have full root
> access on a machine and maintain it yourself, then you would be
> missing out on a lot of these benefits.  That said, if the TOS
> community agrees that having their own sys admin team is the way to
> go, we're glad to provide full root access on a VM -- it just means
> we'll be less able to help should something go wrong with the
> server/services.
> 
> We also have a lot of centralized services like I mentioned on IRC --
> mailman, DNS, mysql, postresql, etc. and we would urge you to use
> those as much as possible instead of running those services locally on
> your VM.

(fwiw, I'd agree that we should be willing to use centralized services
such as DNS and databases instead of running those locally.)

Just a quick ping -- what's the status on this? Is there an email I
missed that I need to reply to?

-- 
Ian Weller <ian at ianweller.org>
Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com
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