[freenet-dev] What do we want to host ourselves?

xor xor at gmx.li
Thu Jan 28 17:30:40 GMT 2010


On Wednesday 27 January 2010 23:42:06 Ian Clarke wrote:
> I think a good compromise is to use a dedicated server, but to try to use
> it in the simplest most "vanilla" way possible.  This means stick to stuff
> downloadable through apt-get, and don't do anything fancy without a very
> good reason.  Emu had some fairly elaborate re-configuration which was
> ultimately the cause of its failure.  Osprey (the new server) should remain
> as close to a stock Ubuntu install as possible.

That is a good concept IMHO, especially because we use the most popular 
distribution now so it ought to be somehow well maintained, at least we can 
hope it is =) apt-get usually also notifies us about updated default config files 
and offers a diff.
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