Hi, all. I have a problem with the web site hosting. Unfortunately,
the person who is currently hosting the www.freedos.org web site can be
difficult to work with - and lately, VERY difficult. I'm somewhat
concerned that if things continue to sour with this guy, he might
preemptively pull our web site hosting.
Rather than wait for that to happen, I'm in the process of moving site
content. I'll be taking over the hosting of www.freedos.org myself, on
a personal system I have access to at my work. Hosting the static
content is easy. However, there are some real issues in moving the
FreeDOS Bugzilla there, so I'm looking into other options.
Option #1 : I did some experimenting, and it looks like I can host host
the FreeDOS Bugzilla on our SourceForge site. I've put up a small test
system there, and while I haven't imported any bugs yet, I can add &
modify & query bugs just fine. The downside is that email won't work
from SourceForge. The SourceForge hosting service does not allow any
outbound connections from their servers (this prevents people from
abusing the free system to send spam.) While this isn't much of an
issue for bug change notification (this hasn't worked on the current
Bugzilla for a while, I think) it would be an issue for when you need to
be reminded of your password.
Before I took that route, I wanted to check with people to see if you
think this would be a real hindrance to the FreeDOS Bugzilla. If it's
really, really a problem, I could be convinced to do the extra work to
build the necessary components on my own server to support Bugzilla.
But I'd rather avoid that if possible, since it complicates other things.
Option #2 is I could move the www.freedos.org site (which I'd plan to do
anyway) and leave the FreeDOS Bugzilla on this guy's server as
bugs.freedos.org. I don't think that would be a problem for now. And I
could make nightly backups of our Bugzilla data to my own server, so
that if we ever get into a situation where he stops hosting a server for
us, I would have the data available to put onto SourceForge (see option
#1.) Since I've done the setup work already, importing the data
wouldn't take long.
Option #3 might be to migrate the FreeDOS Bugzilla content out of
Bugzilla entirely, and into the SourceForge Tracker. Currently,
SourceForge doesn't have a tool to migrate data from Bugzilla into their
Tracker, but I did ask and they are working on such a tool. Maybe #2
could bridge us until we could do #3?
What do you guys think?
-jh
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