[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: LoCo web service

[John Levin]

Not sure if anyone else on the ubuntu-uk list got this, but now is  
the time to discuss whether we want an ubuntu-uk site, and what we  
want to do with it.

John

Begin forwarded message:

> Hi,
>
> as you know (or should know :-) Canonical offers free hosting for loco
> teams.
>
> That hosting currently is done on my personal server. It'll migrate to
> shared virtual hosting at linode.com in the not-too-distant future.
>
> We plan to set up one shared host for teams with "normal"  
> requirements,
> not too different from the current setup except that my personal stuff
> will not be on the system ;-) and a separate virtual server for every
> LoCo which has "special" requirements. (That will include people  
> who use
> PHP.)
>
> In order to plan that a bit better, I'd like to know if you (a) need a
> PHP-enabled web server, or (b) would like to use any other Apache
> extensions that might cause problems in a shared-hosting environment.
>
>
> NB: In somewhat-related news, I had to change the default character  
> set
> on our MySQL 4.1 server to UTF-8 yesterday. Unfortunately the default
> for tables still is Latin-1, and some clients don't tell the server
> that they store utf8.
>
> If you see problems (most likely, text from the database which looks
> like they've been converted from Latin1 to UTF8 twice), tell me and  
> I'll
> fix it.
>
> -- 
> Matthias Urlichs   |   {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de   |   
> smurf at smurf.noris.de
> Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http:// 
> smurf.noris.de
>
>

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