[NCUC E-team] VPS

[Brenden Kuerbis]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Avri Doria <avri at ella.com> wrote:

>
> On 22 Jan 2013, at 08:20, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
>
> > I believe we've more or less agreed that we need
> > a virtual private server of our own (even if we
> > may want to host some selected services elsewhere).
> > It would be very useful also for throwing up
> > mockups and test versions of all kinds of stuff.
>
> Stepwise refinement works for me.
> Lets not spend forever getting it right and pretty.
> Never works anyway.
>


Fast, mostly correct, an' ugly! (seems like our current website!)


>
> I would love to have first policy pages up by or shortly after LA.
>
>

+1  For starters we could just put up



> >
> > So, how about getting one without further delay?
> >
> > All we need to decide is
> >
> > (1) Where to host it; I believe Brenden already
> > suggested Gandi, where our DNS registration is,
> > and I agree: it may not be quite the rock-bottom
> > cheapest but close enough, and they know their stuff.
> > Minimal VPS there costs €12/month or €100/year,
> > and I think it would enough for a while.
>
> I agree.  And France is an ok location for a server.  I might have
> preferred Iceland or something Scandinavian (not Sweden) but am fine with
> France.  and the face that it is collocated with the DNS is good, I think.
>
> >
> > (2) Who will install and administer the machine.
> > I can take this on, and we have plenty of competent
> > people to act as backup sysadmins.
>
> Great.
> I think having a few backup sysadmin who vary geographically is good and
> am willing to volunteer as a backup.
>
>
> >
> > (3) How to pay for it. To do it fast we need someone
> > with a credit card who's willing to handle it and
> > trust NCUC will pay it back, and preferably someone
> > outside Europe (to avoid paying French taxes).
> > (Brenden has handled the DNS registration, I've no
> > idea if or how NCUC has paid for it.)
>
> if NCUC does not have a bank card,
> Gandi takes paypal - I assume the NCUC bank account is, or can be linked
> to paypal.
>


I'm checking to see if MM has a Gandi account to which I can assign the
billing portion of the account.


-- B





>
> if it is not easy to get NCUC treasury to pay quickly, I can cover.
>
> >
> > And someone has to make a decision
> > on NCUC's behalf to spend the money.
> > Bill, over to you.
> >
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> > Tapani Tarvainen
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