<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Currently I run two linux servers, one is a VPS and the other is a raspberry pi. I hand-craft the pages, but have found several methods of doing so that allow CMS-like management (ie pages just contain per-page data, nor any headers/site-logos etc). For deployment I use git, so updating the website is as simple as a 'git push web' and as a bonus you get complete version history. So long as you don't have big binary files this works really nicely. It also makes migration easy, moving to a new server is creating a git repo and pushing the data there.<br><br></div><div>In my experience, hosting a wiki or forum is a little much for a raspberry pi or a cheap VPS, but I do not think they would be useful for the group. If someone desparately wants a wiki, I'd say make one on wikia and link to it. That means our server only has to deal with static pages and vastly reduces the management required.<br></div><div><br></div>I'd be happy to help develop and maintain a website.<br><br></div>Geoffrey<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Volker Kuhlmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:list0570@paradise.net.nz" target="_blank">list0570@paradise.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yes a better website may be useful, but I observe that there is little<br>
interest in making in happen. From a maintenance and collaboration point<br>
of view a CMS/wiki would be the way to go. We had one once, very few<br>
people put any content into it.<br>
<br>
Finding a free server is easy, someone offered a while back to donate an<br>
RPi. Hey I'll buy one myself. I offered to run it and set it up, but<br>
when I asked who is interested in me doing that and who else would help<br>
looking after it there was no response. Hence my conclusion of no<br>
interest.<br>
<br>
Stability could be achieved by ensuring portability of CMS/wiki data.<br>
The actual software, i.e. particular wiki, can't be changed, but its<br>
database should be movable to a new server should the need arise. One<br>
requirement of setting this up would be to ensure that database backups<br>
are taken and can be implanted into a new software installation on a<br>
different server. Who has experience with this?<br>
<br>
All the tools we ever need are available as FOSS so I took that as a<br>
given. I won't spend my time on anything else.<br>
<br>
Great if we have enthusiastic volunteers. What are the proposals to<br>
address the issues mentioned? Perhaps start a new subject about web<br>
site.<br>
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Volker<br>
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