[juneau-lug] Re: Local hosting


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From: bdk <bdk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, March 9, 2006 10:41 am
Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Local hosting

> Free pipe as in free DSL? Or free ethernet connectivity? When I worked
> in Internet Tech Support for ACS there were some non-profit groups 
> thatwere comp'd services, not sure how much or what kind but it is 
> somethingthat I can look into for you guys. I may not live in 
> Juneau anymore but
> as I idle through this list it does seem to feel closer. :)
> 
> -Sean


Sean, it's good to hear from you - it's literally been years!

I think that the JLUG website is fairly well taken care of right now.  I've 
still got the domain, Jamie is doing the webmaster duties, and Myron is hosting 
the box.  So we've got the duties a little more spread out now. (And my wife 
isn't saying "what's THAT computer doing?" anymore.)

I started the thread because I'm not happy with my current hosting provider - 
AIT.  I picked them when I was home on leave over Christmas, my wife was 
dismantling my computer room, and they were the first hit on Google.  
Unfortunately I missed aitsucks.com, which describes many of the problems I'm 
having now. Such as having to log into my Army webmail just to send e-mail to 
the list since AIT wants to misconfigure mail.zuelow.net's reverse DNS for me.

Now I've got time to move away from them, and I was looking for something 
closer to home.  I'll probably give Chris a call, since I don't want to intrude 
on Myron's generosity too much.

But then again if you can find a friendly face that we can talk to, it might 
give us options we haven't considered before AND that might help ACS out as 
well.  

Say, a local mirror of Debian, Fedora, etc.  I know that I hit the Debian 
mirrors from home and at work quite often.  If those bits hit a mirror here in 
Juneau it would mean ACS would only need to bring them up the pipe once.  The 
LUG could manage the servers, and might even be able to come up with the 
hardware between us - so we'd just need power and a pipe.

Wouldn't help GCI customers much though, but that's another battle.

Cheers,

James
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