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

[Sascha Meinrath]

hmmm...  i'll see what our other options are -- we've talked about using
michigan as a site -- there are some major reasons why this is suboptimal,
but given the concerns folks are raising, it sounds like the other
problems may be less... umm... problematic (as it were).

--sascha

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Clint Popetz wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:28:01PM -0500, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
>
> > The site might max out our current bandwidth eventually,
>
> Groogroo's bandwidth is _already_ maxed out, daily, often hourly.  Two
> people pulling IMCRN mp3s (or Darrin Drda music, or Mediageek oggs)
> bring it to a crawl.
>
> Even ignoring the bandwidth issues, groogroo is falling apart without
> a fulltime administrator.  People who pay for hosting, or even those
> that get it for free, sort of expect /var not to fill up, a data
> backup/recover plan, and redundant failover upstream providers.  The
> infrastructure is not there.  That's not Zach's fault; he's taking
> care of it in his spare time.  But unless US-IMC is going to pay him
> to be groogroo's administrator, this sounds like a very bad idea.
>
> > but it would also provide damn good leverage to raise the funding
> > necessary to improve our network -- think of it as a bootstrapping
> > methodology.
>
> If the bootstrapping comes in funds (not just for equipment, but also
> for Zach's time) paid _before_ the site is hosted, then I'm for it.
> If it comes in promises and hopes, I'd say taking this on would be
> acting in bad faith with respect to the community of people already
> hosted on groogroo.
>
> 			-Clint
>