[Seattle-editorial] your thoughts on more distributed system,

[anarch3m]

Seattle has a pub and 2 (two) page servers.  Who will propose a feature to the center to adress our need for more and perhaps we could find an indy israel mirror in the greater community.  FOR perhaps?  I an make a call or two and see?
Date:  	Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:39:35 -0800 (PST)
From:  	"{m2}" <m2 at resist.ca> [add to address book] [protect or block sender]
Subject:  	Re: [IMC-Tech] PROPOSAL: Pay galaxy-7 for Jan-Mar
To:  	imc-tech at lists.indymedia.org
Reply To:  	m2 at resist.ca

i am in strong support of using distributed dsl/cable connections for
home-based web hosting.  we use 5 static web content mirrors at portland
imc [in a round-robin dns], running on cable and dsl connections that
individuals already had and paid for, and we can add and remove mirrors at
will.  this is possible with all mir and sfactive sites.  besides getting
around the re-curring cost issues for bandwidth, it also makes it much
more difficult for companies and "authorities" to shut down an imc if the
content is distributed across many isps, jurisdictions and countries.  we
would not have the issues we are having at israel imc, if it was mirrored
in countries that do not recognize israel jurisdiction.  i am in
possession of 40+ 500mhz pc systems with 256mb ram, 2 nics, video,
keyboard, mouse, cdrom and floppy [all they need is hard drive, atx case
and monitor].  i am planning on using most of them for a
"portland/seattle/rogue imc/riseup/resist" vpn, but i would be very
willing to deploy some of them as mir web content mirrors where needed [if
end users can help with shipping costs].

i am of the opinion that the "stallman server crisis" forced a long
overdue change to our global network.  and now we need to think
strategically about how to fortify, distribute, and mirror our content so
as to really make us "everywhere and unstoppable".

m2
m2 at resist.ca
portland indymedia collective


> Background:
>
> We have been paying $50/month to house sarai at Galaxy-7, and this has
> required repeated proposals to allocate this money. We have said that
> we would prefer to avoid this sort of recurring cost (ie. bandwidth)
> at all possible, and indeed, this was the initial understanding of the
> Galaxy-7 donation. Ideally we would like to move sarai to another
> location where the costs will not be so high and we have more reliable
> access (although this has gotten better over time). There are various
> efforts underway in Seattle to create a community colocation (like the
> CCCP in california) and a homegrown "Colo-solo" project that Riseup is
> trying to move on. All of these efforts are not anywhere yet, and I
> don't anticipate anything to replace them for the next few months at
> least. In the past Galaxy-7 has pulled our plug to "get our attention"
> when we need to pay.
>
> Proposal: Pay the next three months of galaxy-7 costs (at $50/month we
> would pay $150) to avoid getting our plug pulled, keep us in the
> positive with galaxy-7 and buy us some more time to find an
> alternative. With the money that we have available, it seems silly to
> not do this.
>
> Micah
>
>


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