[Volunteers] We have a new server

[James Sparenberg]

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 11:28, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Micah Dowty (micahjd at gmail.com):
> 
> > I've already put an Ubuntu image on there. The choice of distro 
really
> > doesn't matter much to me, but this seemed like a good combination 
of
> > familiarity and ease of maintenance. My two previous Linode 
servers
> > ran Gentoo, but I hardly ever updated them because it would slow 
down
> > the server so much to compile everything on your production box.
> 
> Just as clarification:  I figured that one would do emerge with 
> --buildpkg on a _different_ host, to build packages for the 
production
> host.  (I know there are details that I'm probably forgetting, but
> figure you know what I mean.)  Agreed that it would doubtless be 
painful
> to do extensive compiles on Linode.
> 
>

If I may butt in here.  

I actually agree with Mica and the idea of doing it via a binary 
distro over doing it via Gentoo.  It really looks bad if a LUG's 
Linux box has to go down or nearly down for long stretches 
to "recompile"  itself.  (But I know of a BSD based ISP that does a 
make world and re-compiles the OS each and every time they upgrade.  
Which means they rarely upgrade/update as a result.)  Ubuntu/Debian 
also has the greatest number of users within SVLUG so if someone 
comes in to assist/takeover for Micah it would be easier for all.  

Besides for a simple web server.... probably 100 megs of OS/apps and 
Utils are all we need so we will be rolling in space.  Not to many 
users around here get lost without a gui. *grin*  So Ubuntu is is, 
Dapper it should be (it's stable enough all of the changes are in the 
Gui of late.) IMHO the questions should be.

1.  How soon do you plan to have an OS on it? 
2.  What do we Have to have (not want, not "gee that might be used 
some day") what do we have to have. Apt get is friendly enough to let 
us install anything we find we need later.  The less we install the 
more secure the box IMHO.
3.  What's next.  (like securing web domains! backup plans {plural}) 
we can debate a done deal till it's dead, or we can move on. *grin*


James