Re: [RULE] Call to arms and requirements for the website

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 05:29 2/20/2004, you wrote:
>         Looking at your requirements, all reasonable, I realize that my 
> suggesiton of Drupal may be a bit heavy-weight.  One all too often 
> forgets that not all the world does not have high-speed access.

I gotta say, looking at Marco's requirements, I realize my suggestion of 
volunteering some time and effort to help with the website may have been 
premature. That's a lot of stuff there. As you mentioned, all reasonable... 
but quite more than a mouthful for the time I have right now.

> 2)  What sort of resources are available in terms of a server?  In other 
> words:
>
> 3)  Are we intent on Apache/PHP/MySQL and do we have the 
> (hardware/software) resources to support it, or is something more 
> "lightweight" possible or desirable?

The box is a Celeron 1.3GHz server with 512MB of RAM and a 60GB hard drive. 
It is a dedicated server leased from RackShack (http://www.ev1servers.net) 
and has a quota of 700GB traffic per month, of which we are currently using 
less than half, I think. The box runs Cpanel, a quite nice webhosting 
control panel, based on exim as a mailserver and Apache/MySQL for web and 
database. Perl and PHP are of course available as well.

I hesitate to install a bunch of other stuff server-wide since my partner 
and I do have about 80 paying customers (all very small websites) on that 
server. However, anything which can be configured entirely within the 
bounds of what the control panel allows for one webhosting client is 
entirely permissible. So, for example, something like phpGroupware which 
simply creates a set of pages served by Apache would be A-OK.

I can also significantly increase the disk space and bandwidth limitations 
for RULE since our provider also increased our limit (the old one was 
400GB). I would suggest taking advantage of that to host the website, the 
ISO files, the FTP tree, the tarballs, and even the mailing lists all on 
the same server then mirroring out to whomever pleases.

Anything beyond what I've mentioned here is also open to discussion (and 
I'll try to oblige if at all possible), but no promises at this point. 
Anything which involves the words "security risk" will of course be shot on 
sight, and its family persecuted.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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