[olug] Community Colo Project

[Dan Clough]

Typical clients of a community colo include not-for-profit
organizations (OLUG itself), individuals (Personal websites,
non-commercial projects) and so on.  I'd put my web, email and backup
servers there.

I'm fine with using failover instead of BGP, so long as the other
provider can announce the route for whoever swips us the netblock.
And I'll back up Phil on the issue of complexity with open-source
routing - in my opinion an integrated Cisco router is a much more
stable and dependable solution than commodity hardware.  Plus I'm sure
a fair number of guys (and girls) here are proficient with Cisco
hardware. :)

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
> By big problem with most FOSS routers and firewalls is the complexity,
> both in the hardware and the software.
>
> I never liked pfsense and always preferred the original m0n0wall exactly
> for that reason.
>
> Curtis LaMasters wrote:
>> I would vote FOSS for the firewall/router setup (pfsense or vyetta)
>> would work fine.  I could donate time for sure and hardware possibly
>> to accomplish that.  With pfsense we would have the ability to do VPN,
>> IDS/IPS, Failover, and even BGP if required, however, I'm with Phil
>> that BGP it's overkill. However, I do have one somewhat dumb question?
>>  What would you all put on the your community DC hosted servers?
>
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> Phil Brutsche
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