[Box Backup] RFC: Migration of domain and hosting

Chris Wilson boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:41:43 +0100 (BST)


Hi James and all,

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, James O'Gorman wrote:

> We touched in this briefly recently, and I've had a short conversation 
> with Ben about it and we thought we'd throw this open to the community.
>
> Currently the website, listserver and development server are all hosted 
> by different people at different places. While this isn't necessarily a 
> bad thing, they're under different domains which can make it tricky for 
> people to remember where the different things are :-)
>
> Ben said that he has boxbackup.org available for use, which we could 
> move everything under. The key question is - how would we want to manage 
> this? I have no problem extending my hosting to cover everything, 
> although if anyone else wants to chip in obviously that's welcome too.
>
> I've proposed that I could host it all under a FreeBSD Jail (similar to 
> a Solaris Zone, for those who are familiar) so that it could all be 
> easily be manageable, and I could give the key developers admin access 
> to this jail so that it's not just me or Ben being relied on.
>
> So, comments, anyone?

+1 from me. Especially to be able to update the "official" Box Backup 
website :-)

I'd be happy to chip in whatever I can.

Cheers, Chris.
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