Dafydd Edward Dragon wrote:
> 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.
I thought appropriate to put this post back here since everyone seems to
have completely gone off topic talking about other things... What's the
status of getting Alfandria's backup from Aeto?, What are people's
thoughts of having Goldkin either host or at least run a backup server.
Can we get this backup from Aeto sometime soon? I know of a lot of
people who'd like to see Alfandria back.
-Dafydd Edward Dragon
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