Ubuntu-Ohio Website

[Vorian]

*Update*

Canonical has approved our request (prior to the meeting)

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org

[Vorian]

The topic of this thread is to discuss the hosting of the Ohio-LoCo site.

There was some discussion about hosting at our last meeting about hosting. Jacob92 was kind enough to offer hosting for the site. At the time of the meeting, Canonical sponsored hosting was in question.

Ironically, a request I made two weeks ago was approved today.

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org

Here's what we get with Canonical:

• FTP Access
• PHP 4
• CGI Support (python included)
• MySQL database
• E-mail list
• 500 MB of disk space
• An ubuntu related domain ( like ohio.ubuntu-us.com )
• free long term hosting

With Jacobs offer:

• the sky's the limit!

What are your thoughts?

[PWill]

Jacob for the win.

[jpeddicord]

Hehe, nice wording.

I'm going to add that I can also get custom emails.
Emails can be forwarded or you can use webmail, or an email client. Squirrelmail is available by default for webmail, but I can install other clents such as Horde.

I do feel a little guilty by saying "No thanks" to Canonical right after it is approved however.

[Vorian]

I do feel a little guilty by saying "No thanks" to Canonical right after it is approved however.

That's on me. I put the cart before the horse. You don't need to worry about it

[rrittenhouse]

I feel we should use the self hosting with the slight worry that it is not registered to the group and by a member (things happen to members all of the time). I just don't want us to get this going and something possibly happen to the hosting and then we have to start over. Besides that I think we can use it with that worry but we could also use the Canonical hosting to maybe redirect to the new domain? It would make us feel less bad but then again maybe we could just let them give the space to others or something.

Whatever we do im sure it'll be the right thing.

~Robert

[steven8]

I voted for Canonical, simply because they are the nice folks who gave us Ubuntu.

[jpeddicord]

Yet another idea:

Start out with Canonical hosting, then if our needs grow, then we can switch servers.

[earobinson]

You guys may want to read this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/...buntuCommunity they are trying to make it easy for you guys to get started using there tools

[cstudent]

I vote for Canoncial hosting. It's a gift horse. I also don't think the domain name is that big a deal either. I believe most people click links as opposed to typing in a web address. Plus you should be able to Google it pretty soon after it is up and running.


Just my 2 Lincolns.