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ceruleanspark
ATTN: AMERICANS. If I don't get mailed one of those K-Mart exclusive Trixies, I'm shutting down the site.
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omni
@ceruleanspark How does hosting a StatusNet site work? Could you give me a step-by-step tutorial maybe?
about a year ago from Choqok-
ceruleanspark
@omni I was being sarcastic, but yes I can do one for you. It is pretty easy.
about a year ago from web-
omni
@ceruleanspark I know, I was joking as well. StatusNet is pretty cool though, at any rate, and I'd love to have my own StatusNet (albeit having no clue what it should be about)
about a year ago from Choqok-
ceruleanspark
@omni How technically apt are you?
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omni
@ceruleanspark Reasonably. I won't say I know everything, but I know (or can find) my basic way around and you won't have to explain every single detail.
about a year ago from Choqok-
ceruleanspark
@omni How do you plan to host it?
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omni
@ceruleanspark I guess I should look into that. I suppose StatusNET will need PHP and MySQL? Perhaps I should start off hosting a local copy, just to try things out and "move" it to a better location? Not sure yet, being honest.
about a year ago from Choqok-
ceruleanspark
@omni Yeah. What you want to do will affect your hosting choice. RDN is too large for anything smaller than a dedicated server or a large VPS, though when Cabal set it up, he went with Dreamhosts's all you can eat regular tarrif. ECH runs on an amazon AWS microinstance, but will obviously fold under any reasonable quantity of users.
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omni
@ceruleanspark That seems logical. Personally, I'm not expecting anything large. Most likely will do for a small community. I should check out how much bandwidth my dad has on his website, as he is barely using any bandwidth at all.
about a year ago from Choqok-
ceruleanspark
@omni Well, an AWS microinstance will do for you then, really. A well optimised statusnet install will support 20 or so simultaneous posters in real-time on there without issue.
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ceruleanspark
@omni Can't you just apt-get some kind of CLI based IM client, if that's a thing you want?
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omni
@ceruleanspark Well, I am currently using Bitlbee, which routes chat traffic through IRC. But being honest, messing around with stuff is fun and I'd love to mess around with StatusNET a bit as well :P
about a year ago from Choqok
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omni
@ceruleanspark @omni Looks like I have infinite bandwidth under a "Fair Use Policy". Sounds reasonable
about a year ago from Choqok-
ceruleanspark
@omni It's not the bandwidth that's the issue, it's that statusnet, frankly, runs like balls and consumes a high amount of server resources relative to what it actually does.
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omni
@ceruleanspark Huh, okay. Being honest, I'm not sure what to do with that info :P
about a year ago from Choqok-
ceruleanspark
@omni Well, it's just something to keep in mind. On shared hosting plans, bandwidth will almost always range between some ludicrously huge number and infinity, but it is the competition for resources between sites that will A) kill your performance, and B) get you kicked out if you consume too much. For a small statusnet, shared will work fine. (Just not dreamhost, their mysql server sucks goat balls). If you want fine control over stuff, however, you need to look at either a cheap VPS, or a dedicated machine.
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omni
@ceruleanspark Okay, thanks for the explanation.
about a year ago from Choqok-
ceruleanspark
@omni I like NearlyFreeSpeech for low demand shared hosting of small projects, (It's pay as you go, but ludicrously cheap). Gandi's simple hosting is the next step up, providing lovely, ethical service for a low fee. Mediatemple is my provider of choice if you've got a high-demand service. I used to run a bunch of corporate websites through mediatemples shared and we never had a minute of downtime.
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omni
@ceruleanspark I've heard good things about NearlyFreeSpeech but don't know of the other ones. I'll be keeping them in the back of my head though.
about a year ago from Choqok-
ceruleanspark
@omni I use gandi for my domain registrations. I'm considering moving ECH over to them once the AWS trial ends.
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@ceruleanspark K-Mart is worthy of exclusives? News to me.
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