I'm one of the static web page offerers. It seems we could spin up several copies and use DNS round-robin.
Also, I've got a commercial IP address for TipJar LLC's purposes, it's a Linode in Fremont, California, but I rent it. My commercial SMTP vision is currently not running, but I would very much welcome integrating managing kclug.org e-mail into it. To sweeten the argument for "choose Tipjar!", everyone in the LUG could get an "advenge" sender-pays [email protected] seamless forwarding address, like we're a happening and cutting edge organization from thirty years ago or something. Oh yeah, hey, that's what we are.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM Jonathan Hutchins [email protected] wrote:
We have several offers to host the static pages. That's not hard, any of us with a broadband connection could do it. That does leave us with a single point of failure if we lose the person providing it. The same goes with the system being as close to a box-stock Debian server - if the maintainer vanishes that's a lot easier for a new person to understand and recover.
We do need the ability to send email via smtp, and that needs to come from a commercial, not residential address.
There may also be an issue with the volume of malicious connection attempts, I don't know if that would be significant to a provider.
It would also be nice to have a local provider, just to promote the concept of a Kansas City site/service. With that setup we could easily host a podcast with archives as well.
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