[H-GEN] Suggestions for a new host for www.humbug.org.au

[Russell Stuart]

As you can see from the exasperated tone of our secretary below, the
hosting arrangements for Humbug's web site aren't working out so well
at the moment.

I am after input from people in the club who can vouch for an VM
provider.  (Reply here.)  The VM needs a minimum 10G of disk, and 512MB
of RAM, 1TB of bandwidth per month, a working responsive ticketing
system, and a public IPv4 address that allows us to send and receive on
ports 25 (email), 53 (dns), 80 (http), 443 (https), 465 (smtps) and 587
(email submission), and all ports above 1024.  The major load is the
backups, which scan the entire file system once per hour. 

The background to this is we are currently using Crissic (https://criss
ic.net/ - don't winge to me, it neatly summarises the problem), which
for USD$15/yr provides 10G/512MB/2TB.  Crissic worked well enough for
us for about 2 years (there were some problems with them blocking port
25, but they fixed that after enough tickets were submitted).  However
sometime in the past month Crissic has over committed the machine
Humbug's VM runs on, to the point that it sometimes is hard to
distinguish our VM from a dead one.


On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 14:27 +1000, Clinton Roy wrote:
> One thing we'll definitely be discussing is moving our vhost to
> something that can provide enough cpu cycles to run our website and
> wiki.
> 
> As I write this announcement I can't actually get to the wiki, which
> is why this announcement is light on detail...


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Regards,
Russell Stuart
wearing his Humbug Sysadmin hat.