[m-dev.] Hosting.

[Paul Bone]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:27:50PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:58:25PM +1100, Peter Wang wrote:
> >> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:54:13 +1100, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:44:40AM +1100, Peter Wang wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > For me, SF would cover our needs for zero upkeep.  The only problem
> >> > > is that their bug tracker isn't Mantis and can be kind of slow.
> >> > > Perhaps we can host Mantis on Paul's VPS, and everything else on SF?
> >> >
> >> > By the time you pay for the VPS, you might as well put other stuff on it
> >> > too.  Or are you referring to my existing (personal) one.  I would be okay
> >> > with putting mantis and the mailing lists on that and using the google thing
> >> > to host the website and downloads (free & huge capacity).
> >>
> >> Yes, I meant your existing VPS.  If you don't mind hosting the mailing
> >> list then that's good, too.  I didn't want to volunteer your time
> >> fighting spammers and blocklists ;-)
> >>
> >
> > I don't mind the time, as I do this for myself already.  The problem is that
> > if I go on holidays/disappear/stop caring about Mercury then that leaves
> > everyone else in a difficult situation.  I'd like to avoid that if I
> > can.  But as I'm not planning on any of the above the risk is low.
> 
> You're not planning to ever go on holiday?!?

:-) I'm not planning on stuff breaking while I'm on holiday.  Doesn't mean
it won't happen...

> >  We (you) could deal with it if it happens, or review our hosting at a later
> > date (as Zoltan mentioned).
> >
> > Okay, I'll go ahead and do this.
> 
> In the short term I'm happy for you to do that, in the longer term I
> would prefer
> it if things were not dependent upon a single person.

I'll keep my eye out for other solutions.


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Paul Bone
http://www.bone.id.au