[Imc-tech] Re: IMC-US website on groogroo server:

[Zachary C. Miller]

I do not want anyone else to rely on us until our infrastructure is
seriously improved. I'm working on that when I get back...but who
knows, maybe McLeod and Volo will both suck. I'm starting to think
seriously about doing a Colo somewhere. 

Anyway, we definitely do not have the available resources to host
US-IMC right now. Our bandwidth is very often maxed out and a national
IMC site is certain to have lots of high bandwidth stuff. We're not
the right people to be serving this. US-IMC needs to be on a T-1 or a
colo.

Perhaps if all the improvements that I'm working on all work well then
maybe it'd be worth it but right now I feel VERY overwhelmed with the
number of people that rely on Groogroo that are completely let down by
all the downtime. I want to take care of them, make sure they are well
served, before piling on some HUGE new project. Sure it wouldn't be
extra work maintaining the site, but dealing with the increased demand
on resources and the increased number of people bitching at me when
things out of my control take the site down would be hugely
stressfull. 

Now if US-IMC can put a bunch of money in the pot (say a few thousand
up front and $200-$500/month) then things may be different.

Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There's interest in putting the IMC-US website on the groogroo server, but
> before saying "yes" I wanted to check with you all.  Personally, I
> absolutely think we should do this -- in terms of bootstrapping our
> infrastructure, hosting a website such as this will prove a _huge_ boon
> for grantwriting for equipment, donors, etc.  The site won't go live for a
> couple months yet, which should leave us time to get the additional DSL
> lines up and running.
> 
> The IMC-US group has its own tech team (so the additional work on our end
> would be minimal).
> 
> So what do folks think?
> 
> --Sascha
> 

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