[OGo-Users] OGo and what client to use.

[Daniel H. Latshaw]

I think i'll do just that.

We've just been donated a dual-xeon 1.8GHz with 2GB ram and 4 36G scsi
drives.

I'll set that one up with VMware and get going on it.

THanks!


On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 09:14 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > I'll see what i can do to get them to upgrade, too.
> > I setup a test-OGo system in a VMWare server image.
> > If you want, I can setup a user for you (or more) to test this out with 
> > lightning or else...
> > I just upgraded OGo yesterday to latest debian SVN built packages - I 
> > try to keep that install up to date for the lightning dev team as a 
> > testing ground.
> 
> My recommendation:
> (a) Always run the server(s) in VMware, unless you are running a
> fire-breathing ultra-busy database server there isn't any reason not to.
> (b) Run two servers, or at least two servers.  Pull down newer builds on
> one for testing, and if everything is OK, slide that version over to the
> production instance.  You can keep the testing instance on the same
> physical box if you are resource constrained,  just leave it shutdown
> when you aren't using it and it is out-of-the-way.
> (c) You can always snapshot at update and roll-back if it turns out
> there is a problem.  This works best if you keep your actual data on a
> SAN or NAS, or just on another virtual server.
> 
> It is a wonderful way to operate and the vmware-server free addition is
> more than adequate for small sites.