[Scummvm-devel] About announcing backend changes & build machine

[James 'Ender' Brown]

> Cool. Help would be appreciated. BTW, this offers also includes
> monitoring; up to 10 services can be automatically monitored by them in
> 30minute intervals; if one is down/broken, we can get automatic
> email/SMS/Fax notifications. But hopefully it will run stable enough ;)

> OK, that seems reasonable to me. Only problem: With Debian, you can't have
> Plesk, which makes it very easy to configure everything via a nice Web
> front end. Check out a demo here:
> <http://www.swsoft.com/en/products/plesk75reloaded/demo/>. I personally I
> am not a Debian pro, so I'd feel more comfortable if I could manage the
> system like that. However, if sufficient people with good knowledge about
> administering a Debian system offer their help...
> (Well, not quite true: we *can* use Plesk with debian, they just don't
> support it and we'd have to install it manually; see
> <http://www.hosteurope.de/faq/index.php?cpid=13172>)

IMHO, theres not much use for a control panel like Plesk if this is
going to be mostly a build-server? Eg, it's going to be running mostly
backend services anyway?

Let me know if you need any sysadmin support :)

Cheers,

 Ender
 HostAway




> 
> In any case: They offer optionally to automatically install the latest
> system updates/patches for us, too; but of course we can also do that
> ourselves. For those interested in which packages are preinstalled, take a
> look here:
> 
> <http://www.hosteurope.de/faq/index.php?cpid=11861>
> 
> 
> 
> As for Plesk support: we get support through HostEurope. Which tends to be
> very good and quick. That is, as long as we use an officially support
> variant (i.e. Plesk + Ubuntu or SuSe, but not with Debian).
> 
> Still, I do not insist on Debian. But I feel that I won't be able to setup
> a whole Debian system completly on my own. That is: add users & groups;
> disable nonused services; setup webserver (under builds.scummvm.org or
> so); install packages (well that one I should be able to do, Fink is based
> on dpkg after all ;), etc.. I am afraid that while I'd be able to do the
> basics of all of these, I'd screw up when it comes to complex details of
> which I just not am aware... I could learn it all, but I don't have *that*
> much time left to spend on it...
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Max
> 
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