Goldkin wrote:
> 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
Murrm.. for those that aren't aware, 'Dav' is me, Dafydd Edward Dragon,
I go by Dav as a nickname that I'm quite fond of being called by. I have
been in Alfandria muck all the way to the bitter end even though I was
a bit of a late comer. I think it'd be a wise idea to host the muck on
Goldkin's server, or at the very least have it run as a backup mirror.
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