[Savannah-hackers] Re: [ 102210 ] phpGroupWare website move to GNU servers

[Neal H. Walfield]

> Dan Kuykendall told us:
>         We are going to move the phpgroupware.org domain to the
>         GNU servers. I need to know how to go about this in
>         order to have the domain hosted and I will need mysql
>         and PHP support. From what I understand from Brad Kuhn,
>         we should set this up something like dotgnu has done.
> 
> and Dave Hall added:
>         From discussions I had with Norbet (aka nb), a chroot'd jail
>         would probably suit the needs of phpGW better. 
>         Occassionally we need to restart services, upgrade software
>         etc.  In order to do this root access is really required. 
>         As we have several people who will be responsible for
>         maintaining the website, we feel all these people should
>         have root access, which would be problematic on a shared host.
> 
> I would like to add:
>         According to the current load of the Savannah server and to
>         the (justified) desires of the phpgroupware people, I do not
>         think it would be wise to do the migration on
>         subversions.gnu.org, aka savannah.gnu.org. 
>         I do not know if it was planned this way, but as said Dave
>         Hall, a shared host for two distinct project may be
>         problematic in many ways.

Why not consider using user-mode?  Everyone can get root access on the
"machine" and it will not endanger the rest of the box.