The following is my server information, which, as of right now, will be used for initial website hosting as well as initial EOL'ed repo hosting.
IP address: 67.213.213.84 (canonical name: aalimraan.hidayahonline.net)
An Apache HTTP server is bound to this IP address, but I also have running Lighttpd (a.k.a., "Lighty") on another IP address. While I think Apache HTTP server will be fine for starters, if the number of simultaneous connections reaches high levels, I may suggest moving the repo subdomain (that is, if we use a subdomain for the actual package download site [which I recommend]) to the Lighty server, which is much more suitable for large numbers of simultaneous connections.
I think, at this stage, my server will be more than capable of handling the load we'll be expecting, since updates will surely be light at the start. As we recommend new installations to use the current release of Fedora, most usage will be for systems that were missing one of the last updates. As an FYI, the specs of my server are as follows:
Intel Xeon 3220 Quad core 4GB of RAM 2 x 250GB HD (one, right now, is dedicated to Fedora EOL) 1Gbps uplink 10TB of monthly bandwidth
The question remains, now, what do we want on the website? Scott & I discussed a bit on #fedora-eol, so if nothing's changed, what I will put is a static landing page, along with /blog & /wiki, which will be instances of WordPress & MediaWiki, respectively. Surely other components will be needed with time, but these seemed to be rather obvious choices, the first being, obviously, a blog for updates, while the second will be something akin to a knowledge base/documentation site for us.
I preferred to have everything (aside from repo downloads) being all within the same subdomain because it will be faster in response time - one of the slowest things for the Internet, especially outside of the US, is DNS lookups. Every additional one we can avoid will make the site's performance (appear to) be faster.
Okay, that's it for now. :)
Cool, sounds like a good start. I put in a DNS change request to redirect the domains to 67.213.213.84 and also the obligatory www.fedoraforever.comto fedoraforever.com. I could also see some benefit in keeping the repo / packages in their own subdomain.
I'll update the list when I get confirmation the changes were made.
~Scott
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar < abu_hurayrah@hidayahonline.org> wrote:
The following is my server information, which, as of right now, will be used for initial website hosting as well as initial EOL'ed repo hosting.
IP address: 67.213.213.84 (canonical name: aalimraan.hidayahonline.net)
An Apache HTTP server is bound to this IP address, but I also have running Lighttpd (a.k.a., "Lighty") on another IP address. While I think Apache HTTP server will be fine for starters, if the number of simultaneous connections reaches high levels, I may suggest moving the repo subdomain (that is, if we use a subdomain for the actual package download site [which I recommend]) to the Lighty server, which is much more suitable for large numbers of simultaneous connections.
I think, at this stage, my server will be more than capable of handling the load we'll be expecting, since updates will surely be light at the start. As we recommend new installations to use the current release of Fedora, most usage will be for systems that were missing one of the last updates. As an FYI, the specs of my server are as follows:
Intel Xeon 3220 Quad core 4GB of RAM 2 x 250GB HD (one, right now, is dedicated to Fedora EOL) 1Gbps uplink 10TB of monthly bandwidth
The question remains, now, what do we want on the website? Scott & I discussed a bit on #fedora-eol, so if nothing's changed, what I will put is a static landing page, along with /blog & /wiki, which will be instances of WordPress & MediaWiki, respectively. Surely other components will be needed with time, but these seemed to be rather obvious choices, the first being, obviously, a blog for updates, while the second will be something akin to a knowledge base/documentation site for us.
I preferred to have everything (aside from repo downloads) being all within the same subdomain because it will be faster in response time - one of the slowest things for the Internet, especially outside of the US, is DNS lookups. Every additional one we can avoid will make the site's performance (appear to) be faster.
Okay, that's it for now. :) _______________________________________________ fedora-eol-updates mailing list fedora-eol-updates@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-eol-updates
On 04/13/2009 08:29 PM, Scott Williams wrote:
Cool, sounds like a good start. I put in a DNS change request to redirect the domains to 67.213.213.84 and also the obligatory www.fedoraforever.com http://www.fedoraforever.com to fedoraforever.com http://fedoraforever.com. I could also see some benefit in keeping the repo / packages in their own subdomain.
I'll update the list when I get confirmation the changes were made.
~Scott
Eh...I take it, then, we don't control the domain, hm?
So far I have found a DNS change request page, but not direct access to the DNS server itself, although I have registered the domain. If it matters, I'm not bound to using their DNS servers.
~Scott
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar < abu_hurayrah@hidayahonline.org> wrote:
On 04/13/2009 08:29 PM, Scott Williams wrote:
Cool, sounds like a good start. I put in a DNS change request to redirect the domains to 67.213.213.84 and also the obligatory www.fedoraforever.comto fedoraforever.com. I could also see some benefit in keeping the repo / packages in their own subdomain.
I'll update the list when I get confirmation the changes were made.
~Scott
Eh...I take it, then, we don't control the domain, hm?
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On 04/13/2009 09:24 PM, Scott Williams wrote:
So far I have found a DNS change request page, but not direct access to the DNS server itself, although I have registered the domain. If it matters, I'm not bound to using their DNS servers.
~Scott
I see. I guess to get to exactly what I mean, do you own the domain name or does Red Hat/Fedora Project?
I do, all three.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar < abu_hurayrah@hidayahonline.org> wrote:
On 04/13/2009 09:24 PM, Scott Williams wrote:
So far I have found a DNS change request page, but not direct access to the DNS server itself, although I have registered the domain. If it matters, I'm not bound to using their DNS servers.
~Scott
I see. I guess to get to exactly what I mean, do you own the domain name or does Red Hat/Fedora Project? _______________________________________________ fedora-eol-updates mailing list fedora-eol-updates@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-eol-updates
The domains have been forwarded:
# ping fedoraforever.com PING fedoraforever.com (67.213.213.84) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 67.213.213.84: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=80.4 ms 64 bytes from 67.213.213.84: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=75.8 ms 64 bytes from 67.213.213.84: icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=75.6 ms 64 bytes from 67.213.213.84: icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=75.4 ms
Until we are ready to go live with the site, I think it may be a good idea to password protect it while building the initial content. Wordpress may be a good starting point. I can start building the website content tonight.
You've probably been watching in #Fedora-Unity, but kanarip has a ppc64 build server with koji on it. That could end up being amazingly useful. Either way, I'm gonna work on having some basic offerings for Fedora 8 for when we go live.
~Scott
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Scott Williams vwfoxguru@gmail.com wrote:
I do, all three.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar < abu_hurayrah@hidayahonline.org> wrote:
On 04/13/2009 09:24 PM, Scott Williams wrote:
So far I have found a DNS change request page, but not direct access to the DNS server itself, although I have registered the domain. If it matters, I'm not bound to using their DNS servers.
~Scott
I see. I guess to get to exactly what I mean, do you own the domain name or does Red Hat/Fedora Project? _______________________________________________ fedora-eol-updates mailing list fedora-eol-updates@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-eol-updates
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