[fpc-other] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2012-09-27 11:13, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> best to organise a backend, particularly in view of typical
> discussion-group (innd etc.) servers' very poor resilience to e.g.
> abrupt shutdown.

I use 'sn' NNTP Server. It runs on just about any *nix type operating
system. It is ideal for small to medium size newsgroups and has pull
support. I must say that it holds up very well to abrupt shutdowns, like
power failures etc which South Africa is very prone to having (many
power failures per year). Touch wood, I have been running sn for 7
years, and haven't had a single corrupt newsgroup, but maybe the secret
is in how sn stores its messages. One directory for each newsgroup and
lots of numbered files (they look like text with a small 2 line binary
header). Each numbered file stores something like 10-15 messages.

I'm using sn v0.3.8


Graeme.