[Peace-discuss] Migrating AWARE's electronic resources to different hosting?

[J.B. Nicholson]

Hi peace-discuss readers,

I notice that from time to time people post the same article twice to the 
peace-discuss mailing list by sending posts to both:

   peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
   peace-discuss at anti-war.net

instead of just one address.

Relatedly, I don't know what AWARE's current hosting is.

I recall that AWARE used to host with the Urbana-Champaign Independent 
Media Center (UCIMC) and (many years ago) I was told by someone working at 
the UCIMC that the UCIMC server was not faring well: that server was set up 
to send out periodic mailing list password reminders, for instance, and 
this large amount of outbound email put a considerable strain on their server.

If AWARE is still hosting with UCIMC, and UCIMC's server is still not 
really set up to handle things well (with off-site backups, server 
redundancy, uninterruptible power supply set up and working, etc.) it seems 
to me that AWARE could fix this double-posting problem and the hosting for 
AWARE can be improved at the same time by migrating to different hosting.

On a new host set up to handle mailing lists at one domain, the AWARE 
mailing lists would have a single definitive address at anti-war.net (or 
whatever domain AWARE obtains).

I've hosted domain names, mailing lists, and websites with DreamHost.com 
for over a decade and received good results.

This isn't an ad for DreamHost.com; I don't work for DreamHost.com and I 
make nothing by recommending them. I'm a satisfied user of their services 
and thought it would be worth recommending them to AWARE.

If AWARE is interested in migrating the following:

- anti-war.net domain
- peace-announce mailing list
- peace-discuss mailing list
- AWARE's website
- any mailboxes or forwarding addresses hosted for AWARE on AWARE's domain

to DreamHost.com's commercial hosting, I offer my assistance to do a 
one-time migration and document the resulting setup for AWARE's IT admins.

I'm a professional IT admin at the University of Illinois and I'm familiar 
with what DreamHost.com has to offer. My offer of assistance has absolutely 
nothing to do with the University of Illinois and is in no way connected to 
the University of Illinois; no part of my assistance involves hosting with 
the University of Illinois.

Is there any interest in migrating AWARE's electronic resources to 
DreamHost.com?

Please let me know.

Thanks.
-J.B. Nicholson