Moving the mailing lists to a different machine would be fairly easy
to do. The only troubles that might arise (that I foresee) are these:
* We have limited rack space in the colo. All of our current servers
are either 1U or 2U rackmount servers. A standard tower-type server
would be a bit of a squeeze in there...
* we are almost out of IP addresses in our current block of allocated
IPs, I don't recall how easy it is for us to have another block
routed to our cage.
* our remote power control unit is nearly full. This is currently our
only means of rebooting a machin that has lost internet connectivity
(aside from a 200 mile drive by your truly). Of course, this isn't
necessarily a deal-breaker, just a thought. If anybody has a IP
based KVM switch available... :)
* come to think of power, I'm not sure how many watts we have going
into that cage either. Of course, this is also something that can
be fixed if our current setup doesn't have enough power.
That's my piece...
Jason Richey
Daniel Mayer wrote:
On Sunday 06 April 2003 05:00 am, Daniel Ehrenberg
wrote:
aparently, the wikipedia server is down. This
hasn't been reported on the
list, although this might have been because the email server is down too.
You might be surprised to know that the Wikipedia encyclopedia and the
Wikipedia mail server are both on the same box.
Could all the mailing lists work just fine on a separate cheapo AMD K6-II 500
MHZ Linux box with two 4 gig hard drives, 256MB of SDRAM and a couple network
cards? If so, I hereby donate such a dinosaur to serve as a mail server (of
course I'll have to test these components to see if they still work so the
specs may change - somebody else will have to configure the mail server part
though).
Not being able to talk to each other as a group during a crash like this isn't
exactly an optimal way to run a project the size of Wiki(p/m)edia.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
WikiKarma
The usual at [[March 29]]
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