[kwlug-disc] KWLUG vps server

Sun Mar 26 11:45:30 EDT 2017

I really quite enjoy the Discourse forums format as its designed to unbury
the hopefully most relevant sections of the forum conversation.  If we
wanted to have something a bit more modernized for our lovely old lug.

I would also give a +1 to a nextcloud that'd be kinda neat.  I was going to
upgrade my OwnCloud instance on my NAS but discovered that 2 of my drives
are coming close to being in a scary situation and I'm not willing to
gamble on 2 so I'll leave it powered off until I get around to adding new
drives.

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 10:50 AM Mark Steffen <rmarksteffen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi bs,
>
> I've set up the VPS and emailed creds to you, Bob and Paul.
>
> Daily backups are automatically taken to local backup storage at the
> datacentre, I also do weekly backups of everything off-site (via encrypted
> USB drive(s)) as I prefer to have immutable backups in this day and age.
> There is a feature in the control panel which Bob has access to that will
> let you take snapshots at your own pleasure to prep for big changes you may
> need to roll-back from.
>
> Cheers,
>
> *Mark Steffen*
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> +1.226.600.0464 <(226)%20600-0464>
> *"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." -Abraham Lincoln*
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:58 AM, B.S. <bs27975.2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would be interested in participating in a Nextcloud group instance
> maintenance. Group (volunteer) e-engagement has proven to be problematic at
> OOTC, so exploring alternative mechanisms could be leverageable.
>
> IIUC, Nextcloud is far more than 'just' the file sharing first thought of
> when the term is heard, so it seems to make sense that Bob would suggest it.
>
> Although I'm not particularly e-social, I don't expect helping maintain
> any such would be a problem.
>
> Distro should be stock Debian Jessie. Hostname kwlugs1 (?) - not that it
> much matters - more important will be the DNS names, which will depend upon
> the multiple envisioned services Bob suggests firing up. (And associated
> cert/key correlations.) More problematic may be figuring out a
> documentation model up front - from the perspectives of both migration (new
> OS' instances every few years), and maintenance (new maintainers needing to
> get up to speed on the instance quickly). Some sort of snapshot / backup /
> replication facility also seems prudent - should an in-place OS upgrade go
> south, reverting will be desirable. And, stuff happens.
>
>
> On 03/25/2017 02:34 PM, Mark Steffen wrote:
>
> Sounds good Bob. If someone can 'second' that by way of volunteering for
> maintenance, I'll be glad to go ahead and set it up if you let me know
> disk and ram requirements, preferred distro and a hostname.
>
> Cheers,
>
> *Mark Steffen*
> Office Direct: +1.226.476.1240 | Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.226.600.0464
> /"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." -Abraham Lincoln/
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com
> <mailto:bjonkman at sobac.com>> wrote:
>
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>     I've been wanting to set up a KWLUG GNUsocial instance. It would only
>     be one Web-based app, so it wouldn't completely consume a VPS. If
>     someone is willing to help with the VPS maintenance I'll gladly help
>     set up a GS instance.
>
>     There's a @KWLUG GNUsocial account at http://sn.jonkman.ca/kwlug right
>     now, but it would carry much more authority if it were actually hosted
>     on a gs.kwlug.org <http://gs.kwlug.org> domain. And while I'm happy
>     to invite other
>     KWLUGgers to my GS instance I doubt many people will want to be
>     attached to a domain named "jonkman".
>
>     I wouldn't mind setting up a KWLUG Nextcloud instance too. That'll get
>     us the calendaring service that Drupal is currently lacking.
>
>     - --Bob.
>
>     On 2017-03-24 09:04 PM, Mark Steffen wrote:
>     > If there is any interest/usecases for one, I can donate a VPS of
>     > any reasonable size to KWLUG.  Someone would also need to volunteer
>     > to at least ensure basic maintenance (or script cronjobs to do
>     > apt-get update/upgrade or yum update etc).
>     >
>     > A VPS can do lots of things being just regular webhosting type
>     > stuff. XMPP server, or all kinds of different things (an owncloud
>     > share for example).
>     >
>     > Any ideas/interest in this?
>     >
>      > *Mark Steffen* Office Direct: +1.226.476.1240
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