I've setup all the virtualhosts for the fedoraforever.com domain. I've
installed both WordPress (at /blog/) and MediaWiki (at /wiki/). There's
nothing much at either place right now. The only significant change I
made to the defaults was to choose a CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license for
the content at the wiki. I only did this because, of the choices
presented, it seemed to be the best. Although that's my personal
preferred license, this is by no means a policy decision, however, and I
just wanted to make that clear. I recall that the Fedora Project is
thinking of moving in the direction of CC-licensed content for their
wiki, but that may still take some time.
By the way, I haven't finished all the redirect/rewrite rules I'd like
for both the blog or the wiki. I'd like the wiki to have the same URL
structure as Wikipedia (i.e., without /index.php/ in the URL).
Likewise, I'd like the blog to have the defacto standard
/yyyy/mm/dd/page-title/ format. I just haven't gotten around to that as
things have been busy over on my end.
The following is my server information, which, as of right now, will be
used for initial website hosting as well as initial EOL'ed repo hosting.
IP address: 67.213.213.84 (canonical name: aalimraan.hidayahonline.net)
An Apache HTTP server is bound to this IP address, but I also have
running Lighttpd (a.k.a., "Lighty") on another IP address. While I
think Apache HTTP server will be fine for starters, if the number of
simultaneous connections reaches high levels, I may suggest moving the
repo subdomain (that is, if we use a subdomain for the actual package
download site [which I recommend]) to the Lighty server, which is much
more suitable for large numbers of simultaneous connections.
I think, at this stage, my server will be more than capable of handling
the load we'll be expecting, since updates will surely be light at the
start. As we recommend new installations to use the current release of
Fedora, most usage will be for systems that were missing one of the last
updates. As an FYI, the specs of my server are as follows:
Intel Xeon 3220 Quad core
4GB of RAM
2 x 250GB HD (one, right now, is dedicated to Fedora EOL)
1Gbps uplink
10TB of monthly bandwidth
The question remains, now, what do we want on the website? Scott & I
discussed a bit on #fedora-eol, so if nothing's changed, what I will put
is a static landing page, along with /blog & /wiki, which will be
instances of WordPress & MediaWiki, respectively. Surely other
components will be needed with time, but these seemed to be rather
obvious choices, the first being, obviously, a blog for updates, while
the second will be something akin to a knowledge base/documentation site
for us.
I preferred to have everything (aside from repo downloads) being all
within the same subdomain because it will be faster in response time -
one of the slowest things for the Internet, especially outside of the
US, is DNS lookups. Every additional one we can avoid will make the
site's performance (appear to) be faster.
Okay, that's it for now. :)
