Re: [Arx-users] Hosting?

[Kevin Smith]

Walter Landry wrote:
> My machine, superbeast.ucsd.edu, is not going to be around much
> longer.  So I need a new place to host my archive.  Unfortunately,
> savannah is not set up to support it.  So I am not sure what to do.  I
> could move ArX development over to a different site, like www.gna.org,
> but I would rather not.  The archive is currently about 120MB.  Does
> anyone have ideas?

I think the most important step is to register a domain name for the ArX 
project. That way, you can switch hosts whenever necessary without 
affecting all the bookmarks and links out there. Unfortunately the ideal 
names are already in use (arx.org, arx.net). Here are some arxy domains 
I brainstormed that are still available:

arxdev.org
arx1.org
arxscm.org
arxcentral.org
planetarx.org
arxarx.org

I would be willing to pay for at least one year of registration for one 
of these names, or for a better alternative. I use registerfly for my 
domains, which has really nice tools for domain (and email) forwarding 
and redirection.

For hosting, why is something like gna.org unappealing?

I have a server that could probably host the archive, but I expect to be 
reformatting it and switching to a different OS within the next few 
months, so this wouldn't be the ideal time to switch to it. I have 
another hosted account that could work, but I'm trying to phase that one 
out. What is your timeline?

Kevin