[mythtv-users] Mooting architecture for a DataDirect replacement

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:27:55AM -0700, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> says:
> > Partially, yes.  I can see people like Yeechang Lee running servers
> > for the appropriate hierarchy to which they permit access by others
> > -- at least other Myth users.
> 
> Sure. I have CPU cycles to spare on that quad-core Xeon and the kinds
> of newsgroups we'd be talking about would, I think, be pretty minimal
> in terms of disk space (compared to the typical 20,000-group newsfeed)
> and, assuming enough other upstream and downstream newsserver nodes,
> bandwidth. I obviously can't provide any meaningful uptime-reliability
> guarantees, but I do have 102 days' uptime and counting on said
> server. I'd need someone to provide DNS aliasing, though, so my box
> resolves to something sf.ca.us.feed.mythtv.org (and one of the boxes
> in the pool that resolves to ca.us.feed.mythtv.org and
> us.feed.mythtv.org), though.

The details there seem to depend on how wide in scope the project gets;
it sounds sort of like it's precessing to become larger than Myth
already...  and of course, that will have "who are my friends"
repercussions...

> That said, I've never run INN or any other newsserver; my Usenet
> experience, although more than 15 years in duration, has been strictly
> as a consumer, not a provider. I am not worried about learning care
> and upkeep for a newsserver; however, I can't guarantee that my setup,
> as sophisticated as it is, will be sufficient to handle the kind of
> traffic necessary.

Dan Ritter seems to have some input on that end of things.

Cheers,
-- jra
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