Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Wiki usefulness

[Michael Grubb]

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> What is needed for hosting the gnuarch.org wiki?
> Please guess/estimate
>  * bandwith
>  * serverload
>  * diskspace
> From http://twiki.org/ I did read:
>  How does it work?
>  Twiki is cgi-bin script written in perl. It reads a text file,
>  hyperlinks it and converts it to HTML on the fly.
>
> What is needed for maintiance?
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* Bandwidth - This is a very subjective metric, which depends greatly on 
the community's use
* serverload - I judge this to be very small.  It wasn't even noticeable on 
my server
* diskspace - Again this grows with content, but in general I think 
everything was under 2 Mb

What is needed for maintenance?   Well, there's not a lot to it.
The most frequent task is resetting passwords which regrettably is a manual 
process.
The next biggest task is adding new webs(though this shouldn't happen too 
often).
Other than that and the occasional house keeping it maintains itself.
(Oh, whoever takes it over, it would help if you had some skill with Perl, 
*nix, and RCS)