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From: | C David Rigby |
Subject: | Re: [RULE] Call to arms and requirements for the website |
Date: | Sat, 21 Feb 2004 07:50:52 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 |
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Web/Portal/Content_Management_System/index.shtml http://www.oscom.org/matrix/index.htmlThere is, to put it lightly, a wealth of information. Somewhat overwhelming, even.
From other responses, it appears:That James Miller knows someone that has the skills to rapidly assemble a system that Marco can then maintain. This seems like a winner. I have time to help, but lack in-depth knowledge of key components of website construction. I'm learning, but the desired deadline of 5 - 6 weeks is probably out of reach for my doing something useful.
That Rodolfo Paiz's server can handle a full-blown Apache/PHP/MySQL CMS, as long as we use something that is mature enough such that it is not a security risk for his shared host. I know nothing about cPanel, but is it this project?
http://www.cpanel.net/About the only thing I can offer at this point is that I have an older system here (Dual PII-333 Overdrive CPUs on a PPro motherboard, 256MB RAM, one 6GB IDE drive and two 4GB SCSI disks on an Adaptec 2940-AU controller that I hope to setup as a software RAID-based file store) that we can experiment with, if there is interest. I am willing to set it up as desired for us to practice on (currently it is running the Userlinux-server variant of Debian unstable) and give access to people that I recognize from the list, or that are recommended by such. It is behind a firewall on an ADSL line (1Mbps down/256kbps up) and I can tweak the firewall a bit to try to get half-way decent uplink performance. I have a freebie account through dyndns.org, so one can find it easily enough. Should be sufficient for testing, but not production. If I have the correct site for the aforementioned cPanel above, then I will not be able to install that, as it appears to be a for-charge product well beyond my financial means.
CDR M. Fioretti wrote:
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 17:09:02 PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz (address@hidden) wrote:At 05:29 2/20/2004, you wrote:Looking at your requirements, all reasonable, I realize that my suggesiton of Drupal may be a bit heavy-weight. One all too often forgets that not all the world does not have high-speed access.I gotta say, looking at Marco's requirements, I realize my suggestion of volunteering some time and effort to help with the website may have been premature. That's a lot of stuff there. As you mentioned, all reasonable... but quite more than a mouthful for the time I have right now.Same here :-), hence the problem. Summarizing, I think there are two ways. Either installing some CMS system and using only what we need, or writing by hand 10/12 PHP/MySQL forms. The problem is that both solutions need to be implemented by somebody that knows the chosen one much better than me, to avoid wasting 80% of the time in trial and errors. Again, is somebody can say for sure "Drupal or whatever else can do all Marco listed, it's just a matter of configuring it, and I know how to do it" it's OK for me (always if Rodolfo says installation is feasible, of course). As far as bandwidth and CPU usage are concerned, I'd say that realistically, there is still quite some time before we can put a too heavy load on that CPU. Bandwidth wise, the iso might certainly become a problem, but mirroring (we can restore savannah's directory, and Vego also has space) might lessen that burden enough, I hope. Open to suggestions, Ciao, Marco
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