[LUGSB] VPS

[Richard Yao]

Why would we need to go through Biszard? With the exception of the CS
SINC site, everything in the computer science building is managed
separately from the rest of the university by the computer science
department's own IT staff. Brian Tria is the network administrator, so
I would imagine that we would need to go through him.

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Aaron Pellman-Isaacs
<apellman at ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> Getting IPs/DNS from Behzad (sp?) for this would not be easy is my bet
> --Aaron
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Richard Yao <ryao at ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Is Professor Stark the network administrator? I thought that Brian
>> handled that. We would probably need to coordinate with whoever
>> distributes IP addresses to get a small allocation block for lugsb,
>> say w.y.x.z/28. Otherwise we would need to do hackish things with port
>> forwarding that would not be nearly as fun.
>>
>> Anyway, I think it would be neat if we were to have a meeting on VPS
>> things and actually build virtual machines for "real" VPS hardware.
>> That would be after the meeting on emacs.
>>
>> Yours truly,
>> Richard Yao
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Jonathan Dahan <jedahan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > We can use these for anything, provided you get them working. There are
>> > 4
>> > identical machines, 2 that turn on right now. I do not know what the
>> > network
>> > setup is (stark might ban anything and everything besides port 80 :-p),
>> > but
>> > we should find out.
>> > - Jonathan
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Richard Yao <ryao at ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I know that there are a bunch of servers in the SBCS office that are
>> >> not being used. Is there any chance that we could put them to work and
>> >> provide each person in lugsb with their own virtual private server
>> >> that they could do whatever they want on? I am sure that people could
>> >> run websites on them and other neat things, like mirrors for their
>> >> distributions or remote screen sessions.
>> >>
>> >> The experience of setting it up also could teach everyone more about
>> >> Linux, because they could be required to provide the initial image for
>> >> their VPS. Things like security, encryption, etcetera would then be
>> >> completely in their hands.
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