Twinned Hosting

[Julian Price]

Hello CLUG members

I'm a systems administrator and web developer for inCharge (See 
http://www.inCharge.co.uk) using CentOS and virtualization as a platform 
for small business web hosting.

There must be a lot of people trying to achieve exactly the same thing 
as me: an efficient, robust, secure, low maintenance, cost-effective 
hosting platform for small businesses / organisations.  I think there's 
a much better way to meet these goals than the usual web server setup 
with incremental backups.  But it has taken weeks of FAQs and HowTos to 
get where I am and it has been fun, but it's not for everyone, and I 
still have a long way to go.

So I'm starting a project to develop a methodology called 'Twinned 
Hosting' and written about here: http://julianprice.org.uk so that
1) admins that want to achieve the same goal can collaborate
2) more admins will adopt the methodology and test it for us
3) The concept, scripts and documentation can be scrutinised and refined 
over time in the Open Source tradition.

I'm working on the scripts and documentation (e.g. 
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupKVMGuest) and looking for people who 
would like to collaborate on the project. (See the ToDo section)

I'm also grateful for any feedback, especially if you think there's a 
better way or a fatal flaw or it's already been done.

Thanks,
Julian Price

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