[Imc-aotearoa-tech] Re: New Server for DadaIMC migration

[bobo at enzyme.org.nz]

Hi Danyl,

> Kia ora koutou ko Bobo,
> 
> Thanks for the clarifications. Finn was looking at migrating
> Brisbane Indymedia to the same server we end up moving AIM
> to. Would Enzyme's system be able handle two Indymedia
> sites? Again, hopefully high-bandwidth stuff like multimedia
> files could be mirrored and served from Paranode for both,
> reducing the load somewhat.

I can't see why not. The issue comes back to how much bandwidth. I currently 
have a limit of 45gb bandwidth per month, with 1gb hdd space.
For $432 extra for 24 months - it would be 120gb bandwith with 5gb. Otherwise, 
it's something like $1 per 100mb per month or something similar. I could 
probably pay another $200 but that's probably about it for now.

The hosting is currently a trial period of 30 days. If another option is found 
in the mean time, I would happily migrate Enzyme and its hosted sites to 
another host, but as no one else has got me back for the past months - the cost 
of the current host is too much. 

(Once I have switched everything across, the old host becomes cost effective 
again - it is only suitable for 1 domain name, otherwise it increases costs 
many-fold.)
 
> As well as not being able to find a willing host in
> Aotearoa, one of the reasons we were cool with offshore
> hosting is that it reduces the ability of cops, courts, SIS,
> GCSB etc (ie the state is general) to interfere with our
> hosting. Thing.net, another bandwidth co-op similiar to
> RiseUp and Enzyme was crippled by losing its upstream
> hosting after pressure from Dow over the Bhopal pisstake
> website they hosted. This looks to be similiar to the reason
> CAT have leased server space in the US. Any thoughts on
> that? It's probably something that affects other
> Enzyme-hosted groups as much if not more than AIM?

The current hosting options are at by http://www.flexihostings.net in 
Australia. 
 

> Old hosting - once you've migrated all the Enzyme stuff to
> the new host, maybe we could use this to resurrect the
> DadaIMC test install Finn had on Dystopia?

I could set that up immediately on either of them and offered to do so quite 
some time back.

Bobo