1. Sunday, June 22, 2008

Our most critical issue is setting up a better email infrastructure. Along with this question, we should put together some longer-term plan about allocating our cabinet resources at Peer 1.

1.1. Adding a new Mail Server

There seems to a be a consensus among board and admins that we need to allocate a new machine to be a mail server. There are different options available to us:

• Use Xanadu - machine is currently not utilized and in our cabinet
  • Pro: Inexpensive
  • Con: weak hardware that will consume a scarce resource (rack space). a hard drive or drives still have to be bought and configured, and the RAID card, which might or might not work, has to be installed.
• Purchase a robust server and run Xen. Allocate one slice to mail, another for shell, and other slices to members
  • Pro: Better long-term solution that allows us to make better resource of our rented space
  • Cons: May take longer to set up, and would be expensive
  • Additional resources:

    • Justin's email about expanding and virtualization: http://justin.phq.org/hcoop/expansion_virtualization.txt

    • Possible configuration for the kind of server that we would need to purchase for this plan: http://justin.phq.org/hcoop/virtual_server.pdf

1.2. Secondary issues

• Add a secondary MX at hcoop.net: https://bugzilla.hcoop.net/show_bug.cgi?id=369

• Give JustinLeitgeb sudo access, and shell on all machines, since he already has on-site access