[SAC] RE: [Web Comm] Re: [SAC] RE: [Web Comm] Re: Migration planning meeting

[Allan Doyle]

For any dedicated hosting setup, it's key to find out (if possible)  
in advance what the IP address will be so it can be checked in the  
various black hole lists. Some of these hosting providers have entire  
netblocks blacklisted. It becomes very hard to get email from a host  
in the netblock to go to places that are aggressively anti-spam.

I have a dedicated host at ServerPronto.com that's been great. They  
have among the best rates. But it's taken a while to get the IP  
addresses I have cleared out of various spam lists.

Example (thankfully not listed on any lists)
  http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=64.251.27.70

	Allan


On Oct 27, 2006, at 13:15, Jason Birch wrote:

> OK.
>
> I'm going to drop iWeb, and add Easy Street (they did have a good
> recommendation from Corey and offer managed hardware).  Frank, if you
> feel strongly about Rack Space I can get a quote from them, as their
> managed OS allows full root access, but I don't know if we need the
> overhead (and downtime out of our control) of managed OS.
>
> So that makes three-four quotes.  I'll gather the results and post  
> them
> along with my recommendation for review.
>
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 08:55
> To: sac at sac.osgeo.org
> Cc: dev at webcommittee.osgeo.org; Geoff Zeiss; Robert Bray
> Subject: [Web Comm] Re: [SAC] RE: [Web Comm] Re: Migration planning
> meeting
>
> Jason Birch wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The research matrix is now up with all results.
>>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/ 
>> Infrastructure_Transition_Plan#Provide
>> r_
>> Matrix
>>
>> Our initial recommendation is to get quotes from these three:
>>
>> - Hurricaine
>> - PEER1
>> - iWeb (?)
>>
>> Does anyone have objections to any of these three?  We need to be  
>> able
>
>> to accept the lowest quote from the three unless there is a strong
>> reason not to.  Do we just want to get q quote from HE and see if  
>> it's
>
>> reasonable?
>>
>> I'm gone for the day, but I'd like to wrap this up tomorrow.
>
> Jason,
>
> As much as I think the service level agreements are mostly a joke, it
> seems we abandoned OSU OSL because it did not have one.  To the  
> best of
> my knowledge iweb also does not offer service level agreements, so I
> think we should leave it out.  I would suggest adding in rack space
> instead since they are highly regarded albeit with the understanding
> they are unlikely to be very cost competative.
>
> PS. I'd really like to encourage everyone involved to join the sac  
> list.
> These super cross posting results in very corrupted subject lines and
> drive me crazy.  IMHO webcom should primariliy be consulted for drupal
> web site type discussions.  And your (Jason) involvement in sac is
> enough to ensure webcom infrastructure needs should be met.
>
> Best regards,
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