in reply to OT: A Volunteer's Lament
Several thoughts here:
- systems administrators, working with limited resources (staff hours, server resources) are able to perform their duties only through effective management of expectations;
- you have no idea how many mission-critical applications and IT resources may co-reside on that server, the interruption of which might mean the sysadmin's job, or at least unpleasant after-hours work recovering from any compromise;
- folks trained in an MS environment are often mistrusting of anything open source;
- even a linux admin might be understandably wary of installing code they have not had an opportunity to review for vulnerabilities, or may not have the staff to maintain over time;
- hosting services are cheap these days, as are dyndns.org accounts permitting you to host publically accessible online resources from an otherwise retired machine in a closet on your home network downstream of a residential cable modem;
- so are A records, or even cname's (for those dyndns'd home servers) in a zone file;
- it might be far easier to obtain a link from the dusty site maintained by the school board's staff to your site, hosted on your server;
- engaging the young folks in building and maintaining this site is far more important than having it hosted on the school board's server;
- success breeds trust.
-- Hugh
* "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
if( $lal && $lol ) { $life++; }
if( $insurance->rationing() ) { $people->die(); }
if( $insurance->rationing() ) { $people->die(); }
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