This page documents the order (and possibly dates/times) in which the build process should/will/has proceed(ed). Documentation of the process is not included, as it is assumed that documentation will proceed in parallel with all steps.

• Purchase new hardware (in progress, late May)
• Install OS on both new servers (mid-June)
  • Get temp IPs for new servers
• Install and configure basic services (mid-June)
  • Firewall
  • SSH
  • sudo
  • DNS caching
  • Logging
  • Apache
  • NTP
  • Backups
• Email (late June)
  • SMTP (Postfix)
  • Spam filter (SpamAssassin)
  • User filtering (sieve/procmail)
  • IMAP (Cyrus)
  • Webmail (Horde)
  • Mailing lists
• Find co-location for servers (July)
  • Install servers in co-location facility
  • Configure servers to reside in co-location facility
• User accounts
  • Document process of creating new accounts on old and new servers, and keeping them synced
  • Copy over accounts
    • Possibly fix any issues regarding user IDs
    • Where do home directories reside?
• Move production SMTP record to new server (July)
  • Test everything using SLUUG.INFO domain
  • Change MX record in SLUUG.ORG DNS record
  • Point michelob/dark users at new IMAP server
• Web site (August)
  • Install/configure CMS
    • MySQL
    • PostgreSQL
  • Move/replicate/replace existing pages
  • Change DNS record to point to new site
  • Monitor logs for 404 errors that users get, fix them
• Move all authentication/authorization to LDAP
  • Install OpenLDAP
    • Determine and configure schema
    • Set ACLs on database
  • Configure apps to point at LDAP server(s)
• Full LDAP multi-master replication
• More web services?
  • Wiki
  • Web Forum
  • Blogs