[CIMC-work] Server status

[Chris Kaihatsu]

Awright! Props to ya, Ian.


Chris



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Bicking" <ianb at colorstudy.com>
To: "CIMC Working" <imc-chicago-working at indymedia.org>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 8:05 PM
Subject: [CIMC-work] Server status


> I thought I should give a little status on the server.
> 
> Sorry I didn't make the last meeting.  I also haven't been keeping that 
> up-to-date with other stuff.  My fault, I just haven't been as involved 
> as I should be.  People should feel free to bug me about these things.
> 
> I asked Micah, and it looks like a new server is being set up 
> ("Calyx"... I think that's the name of the hosting provider, I'm not 
> sure what the server's name will be), and it should be ready on Monday 
> or so.  The plan is to move to dada on this server.  I'll be trying as 
> fast as I can to get a dada installation up and configured.  
> Configuration will mostly be in the form of style and layout, vaguely 
> like our current site (but I'm not going to try too hard -- that of all 
> things is easy to change later).  I probably will leave most things 
> like they are out of the box -- we can always change stuff later.  I'll 
> set up an administrator and editor account, using the same password we 
> are using now.  Then we shut down publishing on our current site, 
> migrate content, and redirect the nameservers to our new site.  
> Hopefully this last step can be done in less than a day.
> 
> Considering the time frame (Stallman disappearing on December 1st, I 
> believe -- the option exists to pay to extend that time, but I haven't 
> heard either way about that), and the interruption of Thanksgiving (I'm 
> going back to Minneapolis for a couple days at least), time is short.  
> So I probably won't have a chance to get a lot of feedback.  But we've 
> already discussed all this stuff, so I don't think there should be any 
> surprises.  I wish I could give people ways that they could help, but 
> there aren't that many that I can think of.  Certainly if you want to 
> keep track of some of the stuff going on, joining the imc-tech list can 
> give you some idea.  The chat room at #tech or #server_crisis on 
> irc.indymedia.org is often where most of the nitty gritty goes on, 
> though (and, in general, the best place to go for a quick answer).  The 
> www-migration list also is discussing this, but I haven't followed that 
> list -- I think it's largely about migrating www.indymedia.org (they 
> are also changing codebases, which as you might imagine is a much more 
> complex process, politically and technically, than for the local IMCs).
> 
> Anyway, that's the status.  I really will start working on this... I 
> feel a little better about being lazy, though, since the server isn't 
> actually ready yet.  (I really have to check, I'm not sure how we can 
> be shutting down Stallman on Dec 1).
> 
>    Ian
> 
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