23 Sep
2017
23 Sep
'17
9:36 a.m.
Yes, I'm in the proces of getting a VM for mailman on its own address
set up. It just hasn't happened yet. In the meantime things are complex
and suboptimal.
- Brian
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 02:42:39PM +0200, Rob Janssen wrote:
It should not be that difficult to run a mailservice
on the same machine but
with a different address and name. I.e. add 44.0.0.2 to the machine, move
mailman.ampr.org there, and run all SMTP services on that address and corresponding
name. Then the move to the new machine is transparent.
But otherwise, it is a good idea to use virtualization as much as possible.
This can be classical hardware virtualization like we use (VMware ESXi)
but there are also leaner methods. That way, you can keep the different
tasks on separate virtual machines, on separate addresses with their
corresponding hostname, and there is also a lot less impact when one
time you want to update the OS or switch to another OS.