Hey, guys.
On Monday 17 October 2005 08:54 am, Yan Seiner wrote:
> I run PHPWiki on an FC2 server. A new version (3.6.0) has just been
> released....
>
> Anyway, as for administering, it takes a few minutes to an hour daily
> to check for new posts, in case of userlogins to approve new users,
> assign userlevels, edit/trim/reformat/spellcheck new posts and so on.
There might be a way of getting the webserver to send email on new posts,
which in conjunction with an email filter to route these to a folder might
save you some time. I hope the same can be done for new user requests.
My partner did this for Pmwiki and it saved me tremendous time.
> If Chris wants to host it, he's welcome to.... Sounds like he may
> have more experience with it than I do anyway.
Yes and no. I'm an engineer first, a Linux admin second [I did it
professionally for a couple of years], and probably a webadmin last. Frankly
I personally think I suck at webadmin. My parter Criss does any of the PHP
programming that's needed, even though I was a decent C/C++ programmer at one
time. Lately I've been doing more woodworking than Linux admin.
I'm fine with hosting the wiki (or anybody else doing it, for that matter),
but if it's decided that I do it I want to be up front about what can be
expected. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
I also (like Yan) get about 1/2 T1 speed up-n-down most of the time,
although I am on lower packet priority by design and it is a shared resource.
Let's just say that the price is right. The internet connection is wireless
TO the residence, by way of microwave dishes that are on the the taller of
two towers that exist in the back yard. The tower is just slightly taller
than the local water tower and has thus quite literally become the lightning
arrester for the local neighborhood.
It's a story in itself. I'll explain about the lightning strikes and
associated stories if anybody's interested, but I'm passing up the
interesting tangential subject for the moment. Moving on...
The residence is located in an area with dense clay, and as such the
drainage is bad and the basement floods on occasion. The bottom 1U of the
rack is intentionally left empty. In addition, the residential area has
somewhat frequent power outages and brownouts. There's a 3kVA UPS with a
line conditioner that's in use, but even this doesn't cover everything.
The wireless ISP [AirlinkISP] has a number of independent T's that feed
them for reliability. They've been great in their ability to route around
damaged equipment -- other locations of theirs have been repeatedly destroyed
by lightning. The wireless equipment so far has survived in our location,
but in the past quite a bit of my own wired equipment has not. I added a
fiber line and fiber converters recently, so hopefully that will not happen
again.
The webserver I currently run is an old, slow, but reliable P1 233 MHz box.
It's past time I upgrade it. It will only need a motherboard, processor, and
ram to do it. [The P1 board is running on an ATX power supply and is in a 4U
rackmount case that's ATX ready.]
Lastly, I have recently moved, and thus the servers have now become
'colocated' and are 2.25 hours away without traffic. If something happens
with them, depending upon when it happens it could take some time before I
could get on-site to fix anything. The people on-site are just users, they
can't do anything more complicated than "press the reset button on server X",
and that's only possible when they're home.
This situation, by the way, is why I've been looking into the TS-7250. Put
that together with the hardware that's listed in the "Coffee-Howto" on TLDP,
and you'll know what I'm up to there.
Anyway, that's the deal. ;-) Feel free to ask questions, give
suggestions, etc.
- Chris
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