Comment on Suggestions for Community Organizing
poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
As a start it might be better to rent a VPS or so with a service that does backups etc for you. It will be hard to convince people to use it, and and issue like dataloss or longer downtimes will kill it for sure.
Also, a large rack server is total overkill for what you want with a few hundred members at most.
thearpist123@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Good points. For the hardware, there are additional things I’d like to self host (personal website, media server, game servers, etc.) so I was imagining hardware I could grow into. I have a trial setup (git, lemmy, and apostrophe CMS managed by portainer + nginx + Heimdall) on my gaming pc that seems to work well and which I’d like to make a permanent version of. Definitely not married to having a blade, but I definitely want to go on premises. If there’s downtime, it’ll be because of an internet/power outage affecting the neighborhood, so no one’ll be trying to access it anyway. Adoption will be hard either way (the people I live around are mired in the metaverse 😭) and I’m open to suggestions on that as well.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Wouldn’t they especially want a working communication channel in case there is an extended power outage?
tburkhol@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If you want it to be an actual community service, then you want it to be something that outlives your residence, your tenure as event coordinator, and your interest in being the neighborhood IT guy. It’ll be much easier to transfer control of a VPS to your successor than to give them hardware that also hosts a bunch of your personal services.
You can start with a very small, nearly free VPS while you recruit users & scale up as (if) anyone bites. Probably even get the HOA to pay for it.
thearpist123@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Very wise, consider me convinced