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Re: w00t! Fund Drive for LUGNET Servers
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lugnet.admin.finance
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Wed, 25 Feb 2004 05:47:18 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.finance, Scott Arthur wrote:
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I have just added a small amount to your “fund drive”. I was happy to
make a donation, but I expect I’d be happier if LUNGET published
accounts. That way we could all see what the future holds...
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Ya, I think the future holds public disclosure of this sort of thing,
especially if we turn LUGNET into a Non-Profit Organization.
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...Brings me to the next part. We actually want to buy two new
servers: one to serve as the production server and the other to serve
as a research and development server.
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Novice question: could the old box not work as a “research and development
server” in the short-term?
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In a perfect world, it certainly could, as you say in the short term. The
monkey wrench, however, is that we have to keep this current/old box fully
active and running and untainted during the server migration process.
The server migration will begin in a few days and will go well into March
if not also some of April. Because we are migrating to a new operating
system (from FreeBSD to Linux) and to a multiple user account administrative
situation, there are a lot of changes to make before we can call it gold.
For example, every file (or, rather, every directory of files) that
comprise what LUGNET is has to be examined from an ACL standpoint and
possibly moved or modified. This all also has to happen before any new
user accounts are created on the system beyond two sysadmin accounts.
In other words, rather than just haphazardly switching overnight,
which could have disastrous consequences, we’re going to do the migration
gradually. So the current/old server probably won’t go out of commission until
sometime in May (well after migration is complete...just to be safe). At that
point, and assuming it survives transport from Philadelphia, the current/old box
could be decomissioned and resold, or, heck, it could become a backup NNTP
server box, or it could become a standalone testbed for an IRC server, etc.
Lots of possibilities, none of which are certain yet, but one thing’s for sure:
it can’t go away until the migration is 100% complete.
--Todd
p.s. The reason we want two good modern servers in Boston is so that
they can be paired over 100Mbit or Gigabit ethernet and can (a) back up
each other’s filesystems, (b) provide failover much more simply and quickly
in a disaster scenario, (c) both be capable of the same tasks, making
development much smoother, and (d) overall system management is easier
when the hardware is more closely matched... and this will save Matthew
much time.
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| (...) This is intriguing. Not to go too far off-topic, but would turning LUGNET non-profit make our donations (at least for those of us in the United States) in the future tax-deductible? Because if so, that's very, very cool. I'm not sure where the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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| I have just added a small amount to your "fund drive". I was happy to make a donation, but I expect I'd be happier if LUNGET published accounts. That way we could all see what the future holds... (...) Novice question: could the old box not work as (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance, FTX)
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