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Unread 16-05-2003, 16:09
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Well....

As the name says "network", this system is going to need to have a "home".

At first, I was thinking that having some way in which multiple sites hosted by different teams could have the data. But... I think that would make things sooo much more complicated.

Now, the FIRST requirements of having just one website & keeping this open to all teams are:

1) The site is not hosted by any team OR any team uses it's money to pay for hosting

2) More than one person should have access to the files, ....

Now, there's no rush, but here is my idea on how to do this:

The second requirement would be easy. Whenever a person is decided to be able to be trusted to not abuse the power or destroy anything, he/she would be provided with the access info.

The first one is also pretty easy. I've done this at least 8 times now. You send emails out to different hosting companies and request them to donate hosting. Becuase we wouldn't be hosting any videos, we don't need something mega huge like what cd or soap has. We'd need something like 200mb, (which i think normally has about 10gb trans. but i don't think we'd need that), a mysql db, php, ... I'd be willing to do something like this. As i then said above, i'd give some people who allready seem very involved in this project access and anyone who would also like to develope stuff.

I'm sort of bussy now, but we don't really have a time crunch so everything shoudl be ok.

Now, for domain names...

fsn.org is taken...
but... how 'bout firstscouting.org ??

Any other ideas on domain names, hosting, or "test projects" that we should work on during the summer would be welcomed here!

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Unread 16-05-2003, 16:15
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How about firstsn.org? Its a little shorter and much easier for those of us who can't spell/type .
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Personally, I think "firstscouting.org" is more descriptive than "firstsn" would be. Sure, it's shorter, but it's more cryptic. Where do you go when you want FIRST Scouting data? Firstscouting.org is a no-brainer, even if it is a bit longer.
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Personally, I think "firstscouting.org" is more descriptive than "firstsn" would be. Sure, it's shorter, but it's more cryptic. Where do you go when you want FIRST Scouting data? Firstscouting.org is a no-brainer, even if it is a bit longer.
I agree. I vote for firstscouting.org or first-scouting.org

either of those.
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Unread 18-05-2003, 22:46
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we can worry about the domain later...

For now, I'm going to try to see who will donate what
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You may have to buy the domain but i know that Brandon has special packages of webhosting for non team first related organizations.

Maybe you could talk to him about hosting.
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Unread 24-05-2003, 11:45
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Well,

I'm contacting a number of companies right now about web hosting. Hopefully, I'll have something by Tuesday.

I'll keep all of you informed.

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how about fsn.tk and then u redirect it to your ip
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to .............. :

*.tk names redirect IP to a server that you already have. FSN is looking to get a server & domain. The domain is the easy part, but getting a reliable, secure, and sufficiant hosting is the harder part. Servers cost anywhere from $10 - $40 /month for the amount of space they need, and *.tk doesn't provide hosting for websites.

Without a server, a domain is useless, regardless of it's extension.

On that note, I'd also vote for firstscouting.***
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i realize that it doesnt offer webspace but cant someone just run their own dedicated server? Thats what deskmod.com does and their site says they are only running a dual 2700+
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i realize that it doesnt offer webspace but cant someone just run their own dedicated server? Thats what deskmod.com does and their site says they are only running a dual 2700+
Someone could, but we'd have to find someone with a spare machine, and an ISP that doesn't prohibit running servers. The machine doesn't matter nearly as much as the connection does.
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As I pointed out, I'm looking into getting hosting.

I really don't think having anyone run a server off their home connection would work.

I should have more info by Tuesday/Wed.
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I dunno if any of you guys saw my last post in "The Network". It kinda covers this. Except my idea was more talored to hosting the DB, but it could be applied to the website. My idea was you would have mutiple comps accross the nation acting like mirros.. For a cheap start you can do that. With mirros you could have lets say 2 a region just for good measure. It could be maintained totaly via ftp servers. It would be best for everyone to have the same type of FTP server so that if something happens and somebody needs help its easy to TS it. Right now I use War Dameon FTP. Through FTP you would have an anaymous user for FIRST teams that would only have acces to the DB. Then Accounts for admins which would have access to htdocs folder in apache and whereever the DB is stored on the persons computer. You require some one to sync the DB's, but thats needed only during competition season. I would say the idea comp should have equilvant to or greator AMD XP 2000+ prcessor 512 MB RAM b/c of the fact the home users may be doing other intense stuff. But if it were just a file server then you don't need that.

Also, I have friend that has a hosting company. So like give me the specs of what you think you would need and I can ask him about the cost.
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Well,

Here's what I'm doing now.

I'm looking into getting a hosting company to donate a vps/vds system. This is the same type of system on which CD runs. Here are some descreptions of a vds/vps system:

The Virtual Dedicated Server is a full-fledged (FreeBSD stable) unix system. The VDS administrator is effectively the root of his/her unix system, being enabled to perform the whole range of system configuration and administration tasks, save the hardware management. The VDS closest relative is the standard dedicated server placed at a technical hosting site (a data center) and provided with a dedicated Internet connection.

Virtual Private Servers (VPS) provide the control, reliability and security of a dedicated server at a minimal cost. Ensims Patent-pending Private Server Technology is used to 'slice' a high-powered dedicated server into private servers. Each VPS has guaranteed system resources (CPU, memory, disk space) and its own dedicated system files. As a result, your VPS is not affected by another VPS that resides on the same physical server even if that VPS crashes.

look http://www.ensim.com/products/privateservers/index.html and http://www.sw-soft.com/en/products/virtuozzo/ve/ for more info.

We could use some type of ftp to sync with other servers if they wanted data, or mysql accounts, not to mention xml files.

I'll keep you all informed on a reply.

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Virtual Dedicated Servers are one of the better choices now that you mentoined it
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