[postgis-users] Hosting Co-op (was PostGIS hosting?)

[Paul Ramsey]

Well, it is one company, so we generally do our upgrades on a planned 
basis, with everyonen aware its coming. But note that once the decision 
is made, the victims of the upgrade have no choice -- they are getting 
upgraded. That's the kind of thing that could be contentious in a co-op 
environment.

P

Tyler Mitchell wrote:

> Thanks Paul, what do you end up doing then in your situation?  Do you come 
> to a consensus on when/what to upgrade, etc. or do you have numerous 
> isolated installations happening to avoid the problem altogether?
> 
> Like any cooperative, a consensus-style planning approach would be 
> integral to the longer term success and stability.  I'd wager that for 
> many people, they'd just like to get a basic setup working to act as a 
> proof of concept.  I'd consider having a development server for that and a 
> production server for stability.  With the right number of people this 
> could still remain cost effective.
> 
> 
>>As a system administrator, my take is that while things would work well 
>>in the beginning, in the end things would get nasty with version 
>>interdependencies and the requirements of different users.
> 
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