On 23 Feb 11:42, James Bensley wrote:
On 23 February 2010 11:05, John Woodard mail@johnwoodard.co.uk wrote:
On the hosting side of things, I'd suggest someone takes over either hosting or DNS from Jonathan to avoid too many eggs in one basket. Not that I mean to suggest Noodles is a basket! ;-)
I think it's best to leave the hosting with Noodles for both web and mailing list. DNS is with Mythic Beasts which also seems fair. The domain is registered to Martyn who is still contactable and is as far as I can tell is still a decent bloke with integrity who wouldn't compromise the domain.
I do agree about the one basket stuff. DNS with one person/company, hosting with another and mailing list with another would be good. Although I see no reason why Jonathan can't host our mail and website as he mentioned in the event he is abducted we can contact other earth.li members to seek assistance. Also he has a good track record AND everything is up and running, so lets just get on with it.
In terms of our DNS though if Martyn is the only person who has access to this we need to arrange at least one other person having the accounts details? Or if there were a file on the earth.li web server which Jonathan put somewhere not in the web root so if Martyn went awol we could retrieve that file via Jonathan or another earth.li member?
The DNS is managed via mythic's DNS management frontend (as far as I'm aware...) - It *might* be worth asking Noodles to ask mythic if it can be seperated in to it's own account though so that more than just him have easy access to updating it. (I don't believe that they can tie a domain name in to more than one account, but that might also be worth asking them...).
Again, what ever the plan I offer my VPS if it can be used in some way. As I already said I have set up a nightly cron job to back up the data tar'd up on Jonathan's server which is already running. If I can be of further assistance just let me know.
I've got a script running on my vps too, mine grabs the .tar.gz, unpacks it, and commits any changes in to a git repository. So I have a historical copy of the data - not knowing exactly when Noodles is generating the .tar.gz, though, I've made an assumption that it's part of cron.daily, so I've set my job to run at 6.45am (should be after the cron.daily!).
If anyone wants a copy of my script, feel free to ask.
Thanks,