First Question of the Amazon Sandbox Era

y r ther crows

so is ilx-proper going to be migrating to the cloud, then?

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get it? get it?

Migrating to the cloud? Sounds like a euphemism for death.

suggest ban is made outta people

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Missed you all.

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how long until ilx is back?

no it is gone forever (good riddance) this is just intended as a kind of methadone style wind-down, last goodbyes etc

i wondered if it would make sense to confront whatever long-standing tip-toed around structural issues ilx has, re: servers and stuff, while we're all here and it isn't going on anyway, but obviously taking on a whole new project might not totally be how stet wants to spend the dual-holiday period between now & the end of the year

yeah spill it how much dough do we gotta come up with so this doesn't keep happening?

i don't really know yet bc like schlump says we need to work out what the best thing to do is.

The situation now is pretty different from when we last did this in 2006 -- there are more hosting options, some of them are cheaper, and also ILX is almost twice the size it was then. There are also virtual servers, which weren't really up to the job back then but definitely are now.

I'm waiting on quotes from lots of different people to see what all this would add up to.

Also, this sandbox is being hosted on Amazon EC2, to let me get a feel for how much that would cost. So far it looks like a good deal -- and it's v. fast and has the best backup options of all them.

Given all this, i think it's probably going to be at least a week or two before we have somewhere big enough to bring ilx back up.

(I'm also looking at how I can share out some of the tech side stuff, so it's not just me going "bugger" on an iPad with crappy 3g in arrivals lounges when it breaks when I'm away, as it nearly always seems to do.)

stet i wonder if instead you should think about restricting your movements, & maybe spending more time just 'on call' monitoring ilx through the holidays, overnight, during times at which electrical surges have been reported in the continental US &c

godspeed w/all of that, i'm glad that there's something useful about the sandbox being here because it's pretty comfortable and super sufficient in the interim

if amazon is working then rad, but in case you need more oompf you might find this table useful http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/08/a_short_rant_about_hosting/

That post is OTM. Especially the bit about sales guys. Thanks

If you open applications for volunteer junior assistant sysadmin I'll totally send my resume, fwiw.

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very very very grateful for the sandbox but bookmarking not working - just me? I'm using Firefox.

My bookmarking wasn't working, then randomly started, then might have stopped again. They're not showing up in Zing either.

For zing, check you have new-style bookmarking set in prefs, that you don't have a sneaky uppercase letter in your login email, and that you're using red-icon zing.

I have seen a few bookmarking errors on the server, will take a look.

Seems to be working in Zing now without me doing anything. How odd.

Working for me now, thanks!