Re: webspace for GDP

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Hi Graham,

I have rented my own dedicated root server (collocated at 
http://www.hetzner.de/), with 1.000 GB traffic / month automatically included 
(above that, the network speed will be set to 10 MB/sec, but no additional 
charges) and full root access (i.e. no cost for CPU usage or anything. That 
server currently functions as mail server and hosts mainly my personal web 
sites, our choir's webpage and the pages of a few friends. 

Basically, it sits there idle most of the time, so I could share the CPU usage 
with GDP... As I'm paying for the whole server anyway, it would not cost me 
anything to host stuff for lilypond.

It's running debian etch, and I would simply create a shell user for gdp 
(ideally accessed with ssh public key auth) and set up the web hosting.

Let me know if you are interested...

Cheers,
Reinhold

Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2007 schrieb Graham Percival:
> There are two problems to this one.  First, building the docs takes
> about an hour.  If this server is in your basement, that's no problem.
> If it's a co-location host where you pay for CPU usage, this _is_ a
> problem.
>
> Second, you need a bunch of programs not commonly found on a webserver:
> git
> texinfo
> texi2html (maybe)
> netpbm
> latex
> imagemagick
> ghostscript
> ... probably a few I've missed...
>
>
> The one plus side is that the actual web traffic will probably be about
> 5 megs per day.  There are currently two people working on GDP, and they
> only need to look at a few doc sections each week.  (unfortunately, I
> can't easily restrict the doc build to only those sections)
>
>
> I expect the problems with opihi to be resolved on Monday.  We host real
> research on this webserver (a couple of published papers direct people
> to examples found on the server), so it should be a priority for the IT
> guys.  And it's not the computer itself; I can view the files just fine
> if I connect from campus.  It just doesn't work from off-campus.  :(
>
>
> My general impression is that it's not worth moving the server unless
> there's a GDP helper who wants to build the docs themselves anyway.
> That said, I might be overestimating the charges for uploading material
> to a webserver, or the price of storage, or something.  I readily admit
> that the last time I looked at commercial web hosting was about ten
> years ago.
>
> Whatever happens with the GDP output, I'm going to move the files for
> GDP helpers to a different server.  My main university account only
> gives me 5 megs, but that's plenty of space for those files.



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