[sf-lug] sf-lug site & hardware

[Michael Paoli]

FYI, this morning Jim Stockford and I did retrieve the physical server
host from the colo, upon which, up until some months back, the sf-lug
web site was running.  So, that improves the hardware resource
situation.  I'm guestimating I'll have the sf-lug website again running
on VM atop this hardware by sometime this weekend or so - that should
improve the availability a fair bit (notably the sf-lug website then
won't go down when my personal laptop goes down, offline, or out the
door from home).

Thanks Jim!


> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: Re: Have you guys thought about http://www.freelists.org/  
> (hosted ...)
> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:26:25 -0800

> would be down or that it wasn't (relatively) high availability (at least
> compared to virtual machine running on my personal laptop - which does
> have the sf-lug site go out when my laptop goes out ... hopefully that
> situation will be improved in near future ... waiting on some resources
> to be able to do that.)
>
> references/excerpts:
> http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2015q4/011454.html
> http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2015q4/011441.html
>
>> From: Shane Tzen <shane at faultymonk.org>
>> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 15:56:14 -0800
>> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] updated/upgraded: SF-LUG - operating system  
>> presently hosting
>> To: Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>> Cc: SF-LUG <sf-lug at linuxmafia.com>
>>
>> Have you guys thought about http://www.freelists.org/about.html ?
>>
>> Looks like various LUGs are hosted -
>> http://www.freelists.org/cat/Linux_and_UNIX
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Michael Paoli <
>> Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> It's been updated/upgraded:
>>> from: Debian GNU/Linux 7.9 (wheezy)
>>> to: Debian GNU/Linux 8.2 (jessie)
>>>
>>> http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2015-October/002989.html
>>>
>>> Still definitely *not* high availability though (alas, still sits atop
>>> a virtual machine on my *laptop*!).
>>>
>>> Hopefully in not too horribly distant future (like *real soon*), the
>>> physical box the site was earlier running upon will be successfully
>>> retrieved - once that happens, some high(er) availability options
>>> become possible.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you notice anything awry (notwithstanding the less than
>>> high availability).
>>>
>>> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>>>> Subject: It's alive*!: Re: SF-LUG - DNS, web site, ..., etc.
>>>> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 03:10:26 -0700
>>>>
>>>
>>> Anyway, have taken the liberty ...
>>>> it's alive* ...
>>>> the [www.]sf-lug.{org,com}
>>>> websites are available again.