EGLUG going to VPS - at last :)

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Submitted by linuxawy on Mon, 01/02/2010 - 18:11.
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Hi all,

we had a generous donation from a respectable person who did pay the expenses of hosting eglug on a Linode 360 for a full year in advance.

This hosting plan is as following:

  • 360 M RAM
  • 4 Xen CPU Instances.
  • 16G HDD (on a RAID 10 sotrage)
  • 200G monthly bandwidth

I have met him and already took the money from him. Admins team should decide when the move is going to happen isA.

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I still object. You

Submitted by MSameer on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 20:46.

I still object.

  1. You should not take money for EGLUG without consulting the current administration team.
  2. What will happen after a year ?
  3. I didn't see much agreement with you when you proposed the move. Are you trying to force it this way ?
  4. I still don't understand why a move is needed.

Why don't you update our Drupal installation to the latest 6.x before 7 gets released and we lose the security support instead of trying to fix the hosting which is not broken ?

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who told you that the admins

Submitted by linuxawy on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 23:35.
  1. who told you that the admins team wasn't consulted?
  2. after a year we will have to search for another alternative, which is the normal case
  3. there's a necessity that was shown in http://eglug.org/node/3519 for near 3 months, and it was in the topic in the irc channel where you are logged in most of the day. zero reaction is made, while the admins team recommendation was to move it to a vps.
  4. please check http://eglug.org/node/3519 again.

And about migrating to drupal6, it should be done shortly after we move to the new VPS cause we were already being killed by memory, most of our custom scripts were killed cause out of memory errors, and we couldn't survive concurrent 3 hits at the website. The concern is that drupal6 if it uses even slightly more memory than drupal5, we would be in a much worse situation.

Anyway i wonder if anyone else has issues with this move..

Ahmed D. El-Mekkawy

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You did not mention it.

Submitted by MSameer on Wed, 03/02/2010 - 00:41.
  1. You did not mention it. Seemed like you are pushing it alone. If it;s an agreement by the whole team then I guess it's OK.
  2. It's not the normal case now ;)
  3. I hadn't noticed it. My bad/
  4. Seems like a good reason.

It feels odd that I visit eglug.org multiple times per day and never noticed anything...

BTW What kind of custom scripts are we running ? Just curious.

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