<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>OurHistory/CurrentSystemGripes</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>9</revnumber><date>2008-07-07 04:28:05</date><authorinitials>localhost</authorinitials><revremark>converted to 1.6 markup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2007-11-12 18:42:17</date><authorinitials>MichaelOlson</authorinitials><revremark>Make part of OurHistory</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2006-05-23 20:30:35</date><authorinitials>AdamChlipala</authorinitials><revremark>Already niced</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2006-05-23 17:18:52</date><authorinitials>JustinLeitgeb</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2006-05-22 15:04:47</date><authorinitials>AdamChlipala</authorinitials><revremark>Respond to /~username</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2006-05-22 06:17:27</date><authorinitials>ppp-69-219-163-121.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net</authorinitials><revremark>bandwidth accounting and hcoop.net/~username</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2006-05-22 06:15:45</date><authorinitials>ppp-69-219-163-121.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net</authorinitials><revremark>commented on php timeouts and the problems it causes with SquirrelMail</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2006-03-26 19:53:06</date><authorinitials>AdamChlipala</authorinitials><revremark>Fix wording of admin gripe</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2006-03-26 17:52:02</date><authorinitials>JustinLeitgeb</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><para>The planning of a new system architecture at Hcoop, Inc. is motivated by a set of concerns with the current infrastructure.  This page details these concerns in order to improve ourselves in Hcoop, Inc. v. 2. </para><section><title>What deficiencies in our current set-up do we want to correct?</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>If one machine goes down, then our services will go down, too. </para></listitem><listitem><para>No way for members to buy arbitrary amounts of disk space </para></listitem><listitem><para>No automated off-machine backups </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para><emphasis>Until we get new machine(s) set up, would it be possible to rsync the server contents off-site?  I would be willing to contribute space on my linux workstation to this purpose... or do bandwidth constraints make this unreasonable?  I imagine that our content is relatively static so that might make this possible.</emphasis> --<ulink url="https://wiki.hcoop.net/OurHistory/CurrentSystemGripes/JustinLeitgeb#">JustinLeitgeb</ulink> </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>We don't have a human administration set-up where everyone with an admin job: </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Feels compensated in proportion to the work he does </para></listitem><listitem><para>Is accessible on a predictable schedule </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>PHP scripts have a time limit.  This created problems with Squirrel Mail: </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>It is often impossible to attach large files or download large attachments. </para></listitem><listitem><para>When Fyodor is running its backup, the system becomes slow.  Sometimes folder listings don't display because the php script times out before the folder is read from the imapd. </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para><emphasis>Can we correct this by &quot;nicing&quot; the backup process?  Might be a quick fix.</emphasis>  --<ulink url="https://wiki.hcoop.net/OurHistory/CurrentSystemGripes/JustinLeitgeb#">JustinLeitgeb</ulink> </para></listitem><listitem><para><emphasis>Already done, unfortunately.</emphasis> --<ulink url="https://wiki.hcoop.net/OurHistory/CurrentSystemGripes/AdamChlipala#">AdamChlipala</ulink> </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>Downloads from www.hcoop.net/~username are not counted toward the user's bandwidth usage </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para><emphasis>Actually, they are counted as much as any other web activity, though we don't have any formal idea of &quot;bandwidth quota&quot; ATM.  Do you have any information to indicate otherwise?</emphasis> --<ulink url="https://wiki.hcoop.net/OurHistory/CurrentSystemGripes/AdamChlipala#">AdamChlipala</ulink> </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem></itemizedlist></section></article>