Pittsburgh Indymedia Tech Collective

Contact Information

• email: tech@indypghSTOPSPAM.org
• #staughton (or #pittsburgh ) @ irc.indymedia.org (see SecureIRC)

Servers

• Howard (sparc10! our first server, retired)
• Staughton (old workhorse, 2x Ppro, retired)
• Dega (dead)
• Ashanti
• Greenbike
• Newton
• Lucy (our hope for the future)
  • LucyVserverSetupNotes notes on setup of vserver stuff on lucy - in progress

To do

Hardware

• Add a second hard drive to walesa and set up software RAID-1 (mirroring) (done, var on /dev/md0)
• fix donated alphaserver (powersupply problem -- busted capacitor?)
• replace walesa with "db" (p2-450, 448MB) (done, carlsson now in service)
• retire walesa & dega (done)
• move servers to shelves (done)

Software/Sysadmin

• setup backups for Ashanti and carlsson
• better automated S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring
• setup lm_sensors for hardware monitoring on staughton (and/or carlsson and/or ashanti)
• eventually migrate staughton from linux 2.4 to linux 2.6
• setup automatic bandwidth usage monitoring with notification
  • also can use tc for traffic shaping
• move backups to backupninja or rdiff (currently using rsync)
• bring various sites on staughton up to recent sf-active release
  • sites needing upgrade: las vegas, print
  • especially need antispam solutions for those sites
• Improve MySQL performance on Walesa (DB server) (changing queries in sf-active can do this)
• setup mp3 podcast (done, quick and dirty sf-active hack)
  • setup ogg podcast (more difficult due to stupid categorization) (actually, easy to do with some awk regexp action)
• upgrade Staughton to Debian sarge (3.1) (stable release as of June 2005) (done, summer 2006)
• mail on Howard: upgrade to exim4 or switch to postfix or replace howard
  • gradually migrating services off of howard seems to be the prudent action (in progress)
  • mailman lists migrated to sarai (thanks Jessi)
  • mail services to be handled by Greenbike
• see also:
  • ImcPittsburghWebsiteTODO
  • SF-Active Development Wiki

Hardware Wishlist

• SDRAM modules (pc100/pc133 or ddr)
• Hard Drives (PATA/SATA)
• External Hard Drive enclosures (Firewire/USB)
• KVM Switch
• KVM-over-IP
• UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply)
• remote controll powerstrip
• cf/sd card readers
• pro sound cards
• 19" rack
• most any server hardware

-- MattToups - 21 Nov 2004
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