[plug] LinMagAu goodnight :(

[Senectus -]

Kim I'm willing to help.. but I too couldn't do all of it..

Surely being about OSS then we must be able to split the load just like FOSS 
normally does???  Same theory.. slightly different implamentation...

Senectus


“I don’t think Bastard goes anywhere near to describing the unmitigated scum 
sucking, bottom feeding toerag that is me. But hey – who knew shit could be 
worth so much…”  - Simon Travaglia BOFH (Could have easily been Darl McBride 
that said it though)


>
>On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 22:04, Kimberly Shelt wrote:
>
> > a) 	First you subscribe to all relevant lists..
> > So you can trawl for information .. to add to the site when necessary..
> > b)	Then you read them all. and add the important bits to the site as 
>needed.
> > c)	The site is on 3 machines.. because of previous hits from slash..
> > Not distributed.. thus you do everything 3 times :) Watch out for cost..
> > I got a good deal.. network transist costs and bandwith etc..
> > d)	Host file fun to round robin the machines..
> > e)	All content is on 3 machines, in the dbs,, so 3 sets of 
>backups..etc..
> > f)	Hand hacked by Kim php pages.. to draw the info from the relevant 
>machine..
> > unless it is more important.. aka members signing up etc.. aroudn 500 I 
>think..
> > that and the links, mail archive and other random things are on the main 
>machine
> > and auto redirection works to point people back there when needed..
> > g)	Currently PHP Nuke scripts.. needs an update.. but so much to change 
>in
> > the hand hacked pages.(for the other 2 sub machines) .. a bit of time :)
> > h)	Lots of hassling of folks to use their things.. get permission etc..
> > i)	Lots of risking it without permission :)
> > j)	Calendar updates.. havent been done for ages.. means trawling LUG 
>sites to
> > see when they are doing things.. again reading the lists.. and adding it 
>to the site.. (3)
> > k)	Be KIM :)
> >
> > Actually there is a lot more.. seriously it does take a lot of time and 
>dedication..
> > Content gathering, backups, updating all and everthing, finding new 
>stuff, avoiding being
> > caught in the middle.. evaluating what is right or not.. and and and :)
> > being nice to folks who do put in the effort.. (the latter was never a 
>problem for me.. )
> > cause they had the same wish as me.. to be part of the community :)
>
>O_O
>
>Dang, you're kidding, right.. <:|
>
>I can handle mailing lists... but I dunno if I can read all of what's on
>them. >_< Hmm.. alternative: could linmagau have 'correspondents' from
>each list, instead? That is.. people who subscribe to the mailing lists,
>and occasionally report interesting stuff happening on the lists, to
>linmagau.. :P
>
>The 3 machines thing seems cool, for slashdot-hardening, but I wonder if
>the added maintenance burden is worth it. Is there no other way of
>slashdot-proofing a web site? (question to networking guru PLUGgers out
>there :) Maybe streamlining the backend a bit (i.e. a more efficient CMS
>than *nuke), and fitting it on only one or two machines? :P (fit on less
>machines = less time spent on maintenance) Or maybe even have a
>slashdot-effect 'taskforce' - as soon as linmagau gets slashdotted,
>replace the affected part by a static page pointing to mirrored copies
>of the content. Presumably, members of this taskforce would have their
>own web hosting arrangements, to support the mirroring...
></brilliantidea>
>
>As for hand-hacking scripts.. this should probably not be done without
>looking at security consequences... Perhaps there might be a way of
>customising CMS scripts such that their update/upgrade path is not
>severely compromised.. that would take some design work to figure out.
>
>As for 'being KIM'.. I don't think that's quite replaceable. ;)
>
>
> > I did start a LinMagAu howto some time ago. I can probably dig it out..
> >
> > Interested ?
>
>Hmm, well, what can I do? :) I can probably help with some bits, but I
>don't think I can run the whole show. (I can't be MissKim, right ;)
>
>Cheers.
>§:)
>
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