Re: status of machine hosting finkproject.org

On 10/18/12 11:38 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> What is the status of the machine hosting finkproject.org?  There's been 
> multiple inquiries about it on #fink and there has been no information 
> forthcoming besides "the hosting company said the machine died".  Is it 
> being replaced?  Can it be replaced?  Has there been any other feedback 
> from xs4all about this?  Have other hosting options been looked at?
> 
>  From what I recall, that machine was a donated server and given Fink's 
> budget, that's an important consideration.  Dreamhost, for example, 
> offers free shared server hosting to 501c3 groups.  Was Fink's 
> non-profit status ever finalized?
> 
> Even if a permanent move else where is not feasible, could some sort of 
> redirect be set up such that www.finkproject.org points to a functioning 
> web page (at SF or github or ...) even if it's not the fully operational 
> site?  Ironically, a core member won't get this message because his 
> fink-related email is hosted on finkproject.org...
> 
> Hanspeter
> 

In addition, we should try to encourage the various rsync mirrors to
grab their information directly from the VCS repository (sourceforge CVS
now, github later?) rather than from phinch, so that users will continue
to get their updates.
-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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