Re: Crazy talk: migrate to Google Apps?

That's lucky, because SLUG's Rusty is an OpenVZ container hosted in Mascot. :-)

Lindsay

2009/12/11 Dean Hamstead <[email protected]>:
> Slug should be looking for an OpenVZ, KVM or XEN based hosting service.
>
> Although obviously free of charge is good business sense... So one has to
> decide how strongly they hold on to their values.
>
> There are lots of FOSS based hosting providers, i personally use crucial
> paradigm which are australia based (servers in mascot somewhere), running
> their hosts in XEN on centos.
>
>
> Dean
>
> Morgan Storey wrote:
>>
>> Firstly I'll start this off by saying I use Google Apps for my domain,
>> for one reason I use the free one and my mail server died some time
>> ago. I do believe in free software for several reasons one of which is
>> I am inherently cheap, (I also believe science can't advance without
>> standing on the shoulders of those that come before and only really
>> FOSS encourages this). So because money has to be paid for the Google
>> apps groups solution I am against it.
>>
>> I agree with James, there are quite a few very talented (not really
>> including myself there, I can fumble around and getting it working)
>> sysadmins on the Slug mailing list, heck set up a new mailing list and
>> give the call for assistants to join said mailing list, many hands
>> make light work and all that. So I'll put up my hand, I know how to
>> SSH, and config Apache good... So I'll put my hand up
>> And I currently manage a few ESX clusters so that should also be no
>> issue if need be.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Ken Foskey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 21:17 +1100, invisible ink wrote:
>>>>
>>>> James Polley:
>>>>
>>>>> The biggest downside I see to this is: Google Apps != FOSS.
>>>>
>>>> Thus, crazy talk.
>>>>
>>>> Secondly, ask for help and you get it. Don't ask, no one knows.
>>>
>>> What is needed, how can I help make it happen.  I can spare a couple of
>>> hours for research.
>>>
>>> Ta
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>
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