--- Matt Housh <jaeger@morpheus.net> wrote:

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 16:39 +0200, Johannes Winkelmann wrote:

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This sounds great; maybe we can collect some money for additional RAM and a RAID setup. WRT to power outages, we should work out a concept for mirroring, maybe even with ports(8) supporting a fallback-server; I don't mind when development stops for a few days, what matters more is that users can get the ports from somewhere.

I like this idea and will be happy to donate some money for hardware upgrades if needed; especially since morpheus.net may be moving soon, to a colocation facility in dallas, which is 4 hours south from me. That's not so much a problem since I do go down there every now and then and my co-admin lives there. What *might* be a problem is that we WILL have a bandwidth limit if we host the server there. I don't know the details on the colocation plan yet and it's not set in stone... but as I said when we moved clc to morpheus.net, it might not be a permanent solution. Not that I'm against hosting it, it just seems like Jay's solution is a better one in this case.

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Matt (jaeger@freenode/#crux)

I've mailed my old professor about the idea. I should hear back from him shortly. I used to actually have 3 machines in a server closet there, for a Quake gaming site (QMass.net). Seeing as tho this is a much more educationally-oriented project, I can't see how they'd be opposed :) I'll work on my boss re: hardware. Just a site note, I actually have a little box in my apartment (jdolan.dyndns.org). It's a Celeron 533/128MB, with a 40GB EIDE drive. Nothing spectacular..I use it for NFS, rsync backups, and hosting a couple small, static sites (jaydolan.com). If, depending on CRUX's requirements, I could still host my personal crap there (~/public_html style, or something), I'd be happy to donate that machine myself. The only thing I'd buy for it would be a better power supply. Save on my electric bill if I moved it elsewhere ;) Jay Dolan Software Engineer, Systems Analyst Windmill Cycles, Inc. 508.999.4000 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. http://personals.yahoo.com