I remember you on list, Xor. I even think you went to a install fest or two.
In this day & age, it sounds like Docker or puppet/chef would be an excellent choice for the environment you describe. It would also answer the documentation question. Also, I think Wesley and everyone else raised some excellent points. >From a business owner perspective. It sounds like what they really want is to fill in their business continuity plan. They might be considering what happens if Xor disappears or what happens if our hosting catastrophically fails. Andrew McElroy NLUG President/ Fearless leader < 11 something? > On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 4:05 PM, xor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for all the help guys and taking the time to respond. I've made note > of all the suggestions, and I'll definitely use them when I talk with my > client next week. Wesley asked for some more details, and so here they are. > > This really is an easy system to administer. Its a very small company. > Basically I am their entire system support staff, and I do a large part of > their software development. It is a startup company, and so they don't have > much money to spend, so I try to keep their costs down by not doing anything > that isn't asked for or needed. Any QA is done by me and one other person > who does Jitterbit stuff. > > Here it is in a nutshell. All of their servers are running in Rackspace > VMs. Two servers used in production, one running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and the > other running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. They are basically stock systems. The > 12.04 system has Jitterbit 5 Server installed, which is a proprietary Java > based server. The 14.04 server has Tomcat 7 and PostgreSQL 9.3 with an Java > application I wrote running in Tomcat. Nothing else. This is why I've felt > comfortable just updating from the distribution because there really isn't > any more to it than that. > > We have a couple of non production servers that someone who uses Jitterbit > does for testing Jitterbit operations. With those, we have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS > running Jitterbit 8 Server, and we have PostgreSql 9.3 and Tomcat running on > a CentOS 6.7 machine. I have the same Tomcat app running on the CentOS 6.7 > machine. > > That is it in a nutshell. Nothing special. > > I was contracted to do development work, but its turned into a lot of > system admin work too. BTW most of you don't know me, but I've been a > member of NLUG since the late 90s when Andy was prez. (Thanks for the help > BTW.) I even used to have an nlug.org email forwarding address & an NLUG > name badge. Remember those? Now I mostly just lurk here. Hello Mark. > Whatever happened to Prof Sunshine? ;-) > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
