[Global_conference_committee] GCC VPS

[Mark Bristow]

Very true.  I think that ultimately we should get a provider that supplies
support (I know for example that the people I use for my personal VPS
provide 24x7 tech support)

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Lucas Ferreira
<lucas.ferreira at owasp.org>wrote:

> On the other hand, this would require a team of sysadmins. This should be
> weighted too.
>
> Lucas
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 13:31, Mark Bristow <mark.bristow at owasp.org>wrote:
>
>> Good point lucas.
>>
>> I think our best bet is to go with a virtual private server, so we have
>> complete control over the system.
>>
>>  On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Lucas Ferreira <
>> lucas.ferreira at owasp.org> wrote:
>>
>>> As I learnt from my brother's web site being defaced, we should make
>>> sure the provider will allow access to the server's logs, in case we need
>>> them.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Lucas
>>>
>>>  On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 13:06, Mark Bristow <mark.bristow at owasp.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  All,
>>>>
>>>> Now that our budget has been approved we can move forward to getting a
>>>> VPS for hosting off-wiki conference sites.
>>>>
>>>> We need to decide how we are going to evaluate our requirements.
>>>> I suspect that if we were to get a VPS with someting like Cpanel
>>>> installed it would be easy to manage and have the needed platforms ready to
>>>> go.  However I want some data before we look for providers.  I Think we
>>>> should email all of the event planners (we have a list of their email
>>>> addresses in OCMS) and ask what technologies they used for their sites
>>>> (static HTML, Databases, Wordpress, Django, Drupal et all) and make sure
>>>> that we get a solution that at least meets our historical needs.
>>>>
>>>> We also need to determine how we will archive events to preserve
>>>> historical pages (2009.appsecusa.org for example or appsecusa.org/2009).
>>>> We need to think about this as the sites infrastructure may have need to
>>>> change a bit over time.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to move on this quickly as at least one event (AppSecIreland
>>>> 2012) is looking for this support already.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mark Bristow
>>>> (703) 596-5175
>>>> mark.bristow at owasp.org
>>>>
>>>> OWASP Global Conferences Committee Chair - http://is.gd/5MTvF
>>>> OWASP DC Chapter Co-Chair - http://is.gd/5MTwu
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>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mark Bristow
>> (703) 596-5175
>> mark.bristow at owasp.org
>>
>> OWASP Global Conferences Committee Chair - http://is.gd/5MTvF
>> OWASP DC Chapter Co-Chair - http://is.gd/5MTwu
>> AppSec DC Organizer - https://www.appsecdc.org
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Homo sapiens non urinat in ventum.
>



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Mark Bristow
(703) 596-5175
mark.bristow at owasp.org

OWASP Global Conferences Committee Chair - http://is.gd/5MTvF
OWASP DC Chapter Co-Chair - http://is.gd/5MTwu
AppSec DC Organizer - https://www.appsecdc.org
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