[svlug] We're on new hosting for the mailing lists

[Sarah Newman]

On 05/28/2015 09:43 PM, Scott DuBois wrote:

> So, now that the list has moved, is there no longer a threat of its _demise_
> based on 14+ years of maintenance neglect?

There is raid if that's what you're asking. As I mentioned to Rick, it is still a good policy to have outside backups in case of hackage or a disaster
like a crane falling on our racks (seriously, they made me leave the last time I was there because they were doing work on the roof.)

The whole chroot is 4GB compressed if someone else cares enough to keep a copy. Of course if the loss is due to hackage from the software being out of
date, that's not going to help very much.

>  
>>> I'm looking at their web page and considering moving my VPS over
>>> from Digital Ocean.
>>>
>>
>> Stay with DO for now if you must have SSDs or prefer a GUI to SSH for controlling your VM and console access. But otherwise sure, we'd love to have you :)
> 
> Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I didn't realize DO had a GUI interface
> possibility? 

GUI=Web UI.

> 
> Now the SSD's, eh, I don't have one over at HE so I don't notice.

You mean a dedicated server with HE.net? We have transit with them, they are good people.

You're more likely to notice SSDs vs hard drives in a multi-tenant environment. It's a lot more difficult to guarantee performance with hard drives
primarily due to random access times being, well, pretty random. But for a number of workloads, more ram will get your better performance and right
now that's our goal.