@greg@identi.ca why not just something like a PI2 and keyed ssh accounts. I run such with currently 3 people using it and me doing most of the admin. But may farm some out to person 3 soon. (Its actually an old netbook with some newer bits on the PI2.) Hoping to move to a fully PI/beaglebone system down the road. I run many services mumble,xmpp,email,web, etc.

Freemor at 2015-10-04T19:31:22Z

You're solving the shared host problem with a cheap computer, which is great.

But that doesn't address some people's needs to run apps that don't work on shared hosts (for example, the presumed direction that MediaWiki is taking by "requiring" (in scare quotes) a SOA setup). I have those needs :) Multiple VMs, within the same network, depending on each other.

That actually improves security for everyone.

Greg Grossmeier at 2015-10-04T19:38:08Z

@Greg Grossmeier I would like to do this, but I would like to do it in a way that's community manage'able (as in people can submit updates to the server as git patches), yes.

Check back with me after the next couple months, I might have a better sense of whether this direction I'm talking so much about actually works for that :)

Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-10-04T21:09:51Z

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@Greg Grossmeier I'm not familiar with either of the referenced sites, are you talking about collectively managing a virtual "data center"? I've been recently pondering how people who want to run their own FLOSS services can scale their efforts, not just for themselves but possibly for others as well. Combine userops with communityops.

Charles Stanhope at 2015-10-04T21:40:36Z

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