On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 01:46:00PM +0000, samwise wrote:
Looking to the future, I would ask whether putting the new site on a member's server is really learning the lesson. If something were to happen to Jonathan (sincerely hope not), there is a danger I assume of the same thing happening again. Unlikely, but there it is. Why not sign up for something like lug.org.uk third party hosting, which isn't tied to one ALUG member?
I think it would be a worse outcome, I think that if you compare the two then lug.org.uk has had greater downtime over the years compared to alug. Having had problems with hardware failure, security compromises and people not being contactable at one point or another.
What happens when lug.org.uk dies and the people responsible aren't contactable or the hosting has the plug pulled or they have a hardware failure? It would mean we end up in a position much the same as we were in that caused us to lose the wiki in the first place.
At least Jonathan has been contactable and a member of the Lug for ages, using lug.org.uk puts us in the same position again that we want to avoid. I think you'll also find that although his server has had downtime in the past due to hardware problems he uses it personally and for hosting for more than a few other groups/projects and it has been very reliable considering how long it has been in operation.
I'd much rather the alug server and services are under the control of alug members rather than 3rd parties who aren't actively involved in case the same thing happens again!
Adam