[Plone-com] Right, decisions made. (was Re: We need to select a plone.com production hosting provider)

[Matt Hamilton]

Carol,
  Thanks! :)

Everyone else,
  Right, I'm going to take on a bit of a BDFL-like role in this process now. I'm leaving the execution and PM up to those who have stepped up, I'm just going to make the executive decisions on some of these big bits to stop us debating this for any longer. We have had enormous energy in the last 48 hours which has been great. We have had several proposals for hosting, design etc. I think we are now ready to move on. So I'm going to make a decree, and that is what we will go for.

Hosting: Six Feet Up will provide the hosting for Plone.com in production. I say we continue with that we are doing on the Netsight-hosted staging instance for now, and in parallel get whatever is needed for the SFU instance up and running. We can then move to that as soon as it is ready and continue development / content creation until ready to launch. Alex, Wyn, etc al please liase with Carol about what is needed for this to get it set up.

Design: We are going with the proposal offered by André of getting TV1 to do the design. André please let us know where next steps are with this once you have confirmed with TV1 about going ahead.

Content: This is the meat of the project. This is the 'hard' bit. This is what we need to work on in the meantime whilst the hosting and design side of things are going on. Rose, Armin, Derrick, Maurizio et al we need you to get going on this.

Thanks to everyone for the overwhelming enthusiasm for this project! It is great to see it moving again -- we CAN do this!

-Matt
 
On 6 Sep 2012, at 15:11, Carol Ganz wrote:

> On 9/6/12 2:42 AM, Matt Hamilton wrote:
>> On 6 Sep 2012, at 07:28 AM, Wyn Williams <heywyn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hello all
>>> I already supply a number of higher spec servers for the Plone
>>> community so I could also take on Plone.com, however..
>>> 
>>> I would really prefer not to use SFU for Plone.com for several reasons;
>>> 
>>> 1) They host plone.org - any problems at there DC and we lose both
>>> portals (not good)
>> 
>> That is a very valid point, but actually seeing as neither sure us a mirror of the other, does it *really* matter?
>> 
>>> 2) It is already at Netsight, if they have the spare resources to move
>>> it to it's own VM and allow the AI team access (or say they will take
>>> care of any issues host side) then it gives us at least one portal
>>> should shit happen.
>> 
>> Netsight could well host it, but tbh I'd rather just stick it with SFU along with Plone.org rather than add extra to the mix. 
>> 
>> 
>>> 3) SFU Are a good host but lets face it, they use FreeBSD so are a
>>> little suspect...
>> 
>> We use FreeBSD to, so we also dance with the devil in the pale blinking led light. 
>> 
>> 
>>> PS Matt, what it the Netsight response to permanent hosting ?
>> 
>> Go with SFU. 
>> 
>> -Matt
> 
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Six Feet Up is happy to provide a VM for the the hosting of plone.com.
> We will put the OS of your choice in place so that the AI team can
> choose the best solution for their needs.
> 
> Please let me know what you want.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Carol
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