Dafydd Edward Dragon wrote:
> To add, a good friend of mine that has posted here on occasion (goldkin
> for those that know him) has been talking to me about him possibly
> hosting the muck. I don't we'd suck up huge mounts of bandwidth, or at
> least no more than a common website (I love how mucks are so
> lightweight), and I can definitely trust him to securely host it and
> have backups of it just in case. I'm more than willing to debate with
> everyone here about where we host the server, but I would like to also
> have the database backup just so I can put it in my own archives as
well.
To clarify: I have access to about three different candidate servers.
My primary choice is a server I own with VPSLink. I have a virtual
private server with them that has fairly good uptime, little performance
variability, 150GB transfer per month, and about three-to-four gigs of
hard drive space.
That's accessible through the domain "****nylizard.net" currently. Bonus
points if Aeto can transfer or add records for DNS, though.
Cost isn't really an issue. They charge me $12 a month, and are paid up
through the next year. My domain's also registered until at least 2012. :P
If someone else opts to host the MUCK instead, I'd be happy to host
backup images.
Something sounds odd, though. If a 12-drive array did indeed fail in
that manner, it sounds to me that Aeto was using something like RAID0 or
a six-drive RAID1, both of which provide fairly minimal redundancy (but
quite a bit of storage capacity). I'd be curious to know the state of
his backups, and how far from "the end of the MUCK" they fall.
One more thing: I'm not a native resident of the MUCK, so I see this
problem purely as one of systems administration and a little bit of
philanthropy (phildraconity?).
Given what Dav's told me, the big issues are keeping the thing running,
having a transparent backup process, having good lines of communication,
and not being stupid about the whole business. I suggest whomever ends
up running the thing be accessible by IM, email, and/or IRC should Bad
Things Happen.
Anywho. That's my $0.02.
- Goldkin
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