<div dir="ltr">Hi bs,<div><br></div><div>I've set up the VPS and emailed creds to you, Bob and Paul.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b>Mark Steffen</b><div><font size="1">Office Direct: +1.226.476.1240 | Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.226.600.0464</font></div><div><i style="font-size:x-small">"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." -Abraham Lincoln</i></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:58 AM, B.S. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bs27975.2@gmail.com" target="_blank">bs27975.2@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Although I'm not particularly e-social, I don't expect helping maintain any such would be a problem.<br>
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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.<span class=""><br>
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On 03/25/2017 02:34 PM, Mark Steffen wrote:<br>
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Sounds good Bob. If someone can 'second' that by way of volunteering for<br>
maintenance, I'll be glad to go ahead and set it up if you let me know<br>
disk and ram requirements, preferred distro and a hostname.<br>
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I've been wanting to set up a KWLUG GNUsocial instance. It would only<br>
be one Web-based app, so it wouldn't completely consume a VPS. If<br>
someone is willing to help with the VPS maintenance I'll gladly help<br>
set up a GS instance.<br>
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There's a @KWLUG GNUsocial account at <a href="http://sn.jonkman.ca/kwlug" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://sn.jonkman.ca/kwlug</a> right<br>
now, but it would carry much more authority if it were actually hosted<br></span>
on a <a href="http://gs.kwlug.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">gs.kwlug.org</a> <<a href="http://gs.kwlug.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://gs.kwlug.org</a>> domain. And while I'm happy<span class=""><br>
to invite other<br>
KWLUGgers to my GS instance I doubt many people will want to be<br>
attached to a domain named "jonkman".<br>
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I wouldn't mind setting up a KWLUG Nextcloud instance too. That'll get<br>
us the calendaring service that Drupal is currently lacking.<br>
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On 2017-03-24 09:04 PM, Mark Steffen wrote:<br>
> If there is any interest/usecases for one, I can donate a VPS of<br>
> any reasonable size to KWLUG. Someone would also need to volunteer<br>
> to at least ensure basic maintenance (or script cronjobs to do<br>
> apt-get update/upgrade or yum update etc).<br>
><br>
> A VPS can do lots of things being just regular webhosting type<br>
> stuff. XMPP server, or all kinds of different things (an owncloud<br>
> share for example).<br>
><br>
> Any ideas/interest in this?<br>
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