<div dir="ltr"><div>Much of the website is driven by a postfix database backend, so updates are for the most part just a matter of adding and modifying database records. I'm not sure how we could switch cleanly over to something like wordpress or caldav without major loss of functionality. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Last time I looked at Meetup, which admittedly was more than 10 years ago, there was a requirement that we pay a $2 fee for each and every attendee at our meetings. That requirement was a show-stopper, because I don't want to charge a membership fee in the first place, never mind doing so just for the privilege of advertising on Meetup.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried to set up an SSL test site a while back, in accordance with the free SSL service that someone demonstrated at one of our meetings, but the tool for managing certificate updates wouldn't install on driftwood. I don't recall the details.</div><div><br></div><div>Backups are pushed out to Amazon S3 via restic. The script is at /usr/local/bin/restic-backup.sh, and I have it doing daily, monthly, and yearly backups. The script prunes the backups so that it retains a maximum of 14 dailies and 24 monthlies. The yearly backups never get pruned. AWS access keys and restic password are included from a file in my home directory. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Daily backups are run on days 2..31, monthly backups of the 1st of February thru December, and yearly backups on January 1.</div><div><br></div><div>Incorporation seems expensive, complicated, and unnecessary. We've operated for 25 years without it. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Our domain account at networksolutions is an 8-digit numerical id and a password. It's not tied to an email address, but the various contact records all currently point to me.</div><div><br></div><div>We currently have 3 nameservers defined, but driftwood is currently the only one actually functioning. The other two are <a href="http://cheyenne.blu.org">cheyenne.blu.org</a> and <a href="http://msb.ernest-doss.org">msb.ernest-doss.org</a>. Cheyenne no longer exists, and Msb apparently no longer provides DNS at all. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 4:00 PM David Kramer <<a href="mailto:david@thekramers.net">david@thekramers.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I agree with everything written here. I want to make clear
though that "backups" refer to *us* just as much as software
backups. We need to get to a place where all of us can maintain
our systems, and that likely also means moving to more industry
standard software and away from hand-crafted scripts (i.e.
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was talking to Kurt, Bill Ricker and David Kramer. We have a
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might be time where we should retire the hardware and
virtualized. I'll try to talk to the guy at Synoptek. Also, we
need backups for each of us as we are all aging. One issue is
if John goes away, we wont have access to the domain. (Maybe <a href="http://blu.org" target="_blank">blu.org</a>
should be owned by a corporation). And management of the
server and web site. We probably should use https. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Also,
maybe we should join meetups to more publicize the BLU.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Dave,
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