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.
-- Jonathan
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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If I was hosting it on my box in UnReal Servers' corporate data center, I promise I'm not going to complain about people trying to break into SSH. If it got on my nerves, I would just take the time to fix it myself.
Kclug would get its own isolated VM with its own dedicated public v4 and v6 ips with reverse dns and unlimited transfer donated by UnReal in exchange for an UnReal Servers banner ad. Im not asking for any recognition myself for using my physical hardware. But I'd like at least one other lug member to mirror it via nightly rsync or other means to another host we all can ssh to, whether or not we round robin DNS.
I want to know that if my physical host goes up in smoke, nobody needs to wait for me to fix it because someone else has a copy of what it looked like 5 minutes before the smoke came out.
Can anyone else provide a VM specific to kclug in another commercial setting with a public commercial IP?
On Thu, Feb 5, 2026, 16:31 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.
-- Jonathan _______________________________________________ KCLUG mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://kclug.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/kclug.kclug.org/
I yield to Billy Croan's custom VM, and offer to mirror static web pages via rsync.
When Advenge gets testable again (I don't know how "spamless" turned into "seamless" in my previous) I'll surely let the LUG know about it.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 9:31 PM Billy Croan [email protected] wrote:
If I was hosting it on my box in UnReal Servers' corporate data center
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