Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:57:31 -0600 On Sat February 28 2009, Benedikt Böhm wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:47:56AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > > On Fri February 27 2009, Dallas Kashuba wrote: > > > I think this site is still on a personal box in somebody's basement. > > > I can not say that for sure, it may have changed a year or two ago. > > > > it is running on a machine maintained by Hollow > > (details about the connection and hosting should > > be available from him, for me, it just works :) > > the website, subversion, ftp archives and mailing list is currently > hosted on a dual-core opteron 1218 with 4GB of ram, connected to an > approx. 70GBit/s backbone in nürnberg, germany at www.hetzner.de > > there are far too many posts where this answer could be posted to, but i > wanted to share my experience with our mediawiki and its migration from > the old wiki a few years ago: > > it was a major PITA to migrate the content and i spent countless hours > with boring copy&paste and adapting of wiki syntax, consolidating > content, navigation and removing obsolete information, links etc.pp. > > so anyone who now posts mockups and ideas for fancy pr pages and similar > should be aware that maintaing the website and overall appearance of > vserver to the outside world is a daunting and most of the time boring > task. don't get me wrong, i don't want to spoil the initial euphoria, > but from my own experience i predict it to be a dead end. > Do you have any specific objection if this is limited to being someone else's dead end? ;) Only by making the attempt will anyone know if my experience will match that of yourself - - Reliance here on projection is not a very reliable guide. If any of this discussion has ruffled any feathers by implying that what you have already done should be changed - well, I for one apologize. Mike > unfortunately i didn't have time to do any vserver development for a > very long time due to personal and work related reasons, but i'm still > maintaining and updating the gentoo ebuilds and currently setting up a > new environment on my box to build up-to-date stages with our new > baselayout, so users do at least have usable stages for deployment. > > anyway, i'm still using vserver on a huge number of servers and i am > happy to support the vserver project with infrastructure on the > aforementioned box and i'm always available if something does not work > or software needs to be installed etc.pp. > > HTH & Greetings, > Bene >