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2024 Server Migration

2023-07-13T18:55:46Z

198.246.100.83: /* OS selection */

This page is to collect information about our current configuration and options for switching to a new server going forward. Please feel free to edit to add missing information or correct errors.

== Server selection ==

[https://www.linode.com/pricing?r=30335eb136f2c5f7fa3429dce9f15bea836f81d3 Linode] has been acquired by Akamai and raised their prices. Could potentially downgrade from the $12/mo (2GB RAM) plan to the $5 (1GB RAM "Nanode") plan depending on distro system requirements. Could also consider dropping paid backup service or using something different.

Other VPS providers can be considered, not sure if they are any cheaper/better.

== OS selection ==

CentOS Linux is dead. CentOS Stream is only viable as long as Red Hat/IBM has a business case for it. Can consider other options like pure Debian or Ubuntu LTS.

=== Service enumeration ===

Services that are currently running on the WPLUG Linode server. These should include things that are user-facing only, not infrastructure.

* E-mail (Postfix)
* Mailing lists (Mailman)
* Wiki (MediaWiki)
* Monkeybot IRC bot (infobot)
** While one of the oldest WPLUG services, since [[IRC|freenode]] is essentially dead, there may not be good reason to keep it alive.
* Ticketing system (Trac)
** This is [https://trac.wplug.org/wplug-internet/report/6 virtually unused], likely not worth deploying.

Infrastructure software which supports the services above.

* Web server (Apache) - it would be possible to use Nginx instead, but I (Vance) am not familiar with setting it up
* PHP (Apache mod_php) for MediaWiki - could be replaced with PHP-FPM
* Let's Encrypt for TLS certificate
* Python for Mailman, Let's Encrypt, and Trac
* Perl for Monkeybot
* MariaDB for MediaWiki - may be [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Database possible] to use SQLite or PostgreSQL instead
* Greylisting daemon (Postgrey)
* Fail2ban

=== Support lifetime ===

* CentOS Stream 9 - [https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Life_Cycle_Dates 2027-05-31] (limited to RHEL Full Support lifetime)
* Rocky Linux 9 - [https://wiki.rockylinux.org/rocky/version/ 2032-05-31]
* AlmaLinux 9 - [https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/#almalinux-9 2032-05-31]
* Debian 12 "bookworm" - [https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610.en.html 2028-06-10 or later]
* Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)#Releases 2027-04]

== Nice-to-haves ==

* We have an archive of static web pages from the pre-2007 server "penguin" - it would be nice to make this history available somehow.

[[Category:Migration]]

2024 Server Migration

2023-07-13T17:29:14Z

198.246.100.83: /* Server selection */

This page is to collect information about our current configuration and options for switching to a new server going forward. Please feel free to edit to add missing information or correct errors.

== Server selection ==

[https://www.linode.com/pricing?r=30335eb136f2c5f7fa3429dce9f15bea836f81d3 Linode] has been acquired by Akamai and raised their prices. Could potentially downgrade from the $12/mo (2GB RAM) plan to the $5 (1GB RAM "Nanode") plan depending on distro system requirements. Could also consider dropping paid backup service or using something different.

Other VPS providers can be considered, not sure if they are any cheaper/better.

== OS selection ==

CentOS Linux is dead. CentOS Stream is only viable as long as Red Hat/IBM has a business case for it. Can consider other options like pure Debian or Ubuntu LTS.

=== Service enumeration ===

Services that are currently running on the WPLUG Linode server. These should include things that are user-facing only, not infrastructure.

* E-mail (Postfix)
* Mailing lists (Mailman)
* Wiki (MediaWiki)
* Monkeybot IRC bot (infobot)
** While one of the oldest WPLUG services, since [[IRC|freenode]] is essentially dead, there may not be good reason to keep it alive.
* Ticketing system (Trac)
** This is [https://trac.wplug.org/wplug-internet/report/6 virtually unused], likely not worth deploying.

Infrastructure software which supports the services above.

* Web server (Apache) - it would be possible to use Nginx instead, but I (Vance) am not familiar with setting it up
* PHP (Apache mod_php) for MediaWiki - could be replaced with PHP-FPM
* Let's Encrypt for TLS certificate
* Python for Mailman, Let's Encrypt, and Trac
* Perl for Monkeybot
* MariaDB for MediaWiki - may be [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Database possible] to use SQLite or PostgreSQL instead
* Greylisting daemon (Postgrey)
* Fail2ban

== Nice-to-haves ==

* We have an archive of static web pages from the pre-2007 server "penguin" - it would be nice to make this history available somehow.

[[Category:Migration]]

2024 Server Migration

2023-07-13T16:39:26Z

198.246.100.83: Created page with "This page is to collect information about our current configuration and options for switching to a new server going forward. Please feel free to edit to add missing informati..."

This page is to collect information about our current configuration and options for switching to a new server going forward. Please feel free to edit to add missing information or correct errors.

== Server selection ==

[https://www.linode.com/pricing?r=30335eb136f2c5f7fa3429dce9f15bea836f81d3 Linode] has been acquired by Akamai and raised their prices. Could potentially downgrade from the $12/mo (2GB RAM) plan to the $5 (1GB RAM "Nanode") plan depending on distro system requirements. Could also consider dropping or using different paid backup service.

Other VPS providers can be considered, not sure if they are any cheaper/better.

== OS selection ==

CentOS Linux is dead. CentOS Stream is only viable as long as Red Hat/IBM has a business case for it. Can consider other options like pure Debian or Ubuntu LTS.

=== Service enumeration ===

Services that are currently running on the WPLUG Linode server. These should include things that are user-facing only, not infrastructure.

* E-mail (Postfix)
* Mailing lists (Mailman)
* Wiki (MediaWiki)
* Monkeybot IRC bot (infobot)
** While one of the oldest WPLUG services, since [[IRC|freenode]] is essentially dead, there may not be good reason to keep it alive.
* Ticketing system (Trac)
** This is [https://trac.wplug.org/wplug-internet/report/6 virtually unused], likely not worth deploying.

Infrastructure software which supports the services above.

* Web server (Apache) - it would be possible to use Nginx instead, but I (Vance) am not familiar with setting it up
* PHP (Apache mod_php) for MediaWiki - could be replaced with PHP-FPM
* Let's Encrypt for TLS certificate
* Python for Mailman, Let's Encrypt, and Trac
* Perl for Monkeybot
* MariaDB for MediaWiki - may be [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Database possible] to use SQLite or PostgreSQL instead
* Greylisting daemon (Postgrey)
* Fail2ban

== Nice-to-haves ==

* We have an archive of static web pages from the pre-2007 server "penguin" - it would be nice to make this history available somehow.

[[Category:Migration]]