[BLU/Officers] Face to face meeting

[Bill Horne]

On 12/7/2019 3:41 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I was talking to Kurt, Bill Ricker and David Kramer. We have a few 
> issues. Such as
> It might be time where we should retire the hardware and virtualized. 
> I'll try to talk to the guy at Synoptek.
I've been using prgmr.com for years, and I recommend them. My yearly 
server rental is about $120, but you'll probably want more bandwidth for 
a BLU server.
> Also, we need backups for each of us as we are all aging. One issue is 
> if John goes away, we wont have access to the domain. (Maybe blu.org 
> <http://blu.org> should be owned by a corporation). And management of 
> the server and web site. We probably should use https.

I think everyone in the leadership should write out a list of applicable 
user id's and passwords, and put them in a safe-deposit box or fire safe 
that two or three people can access: if blu decides on a more formal 
arrangement, lawyers will store them for a nominal fee. As a practical 
matter, almost all Domain Name services like GoDaddy can change a 
domain's details with only a User ID and password, so there's little 
need to incorporate just as a placeholder for a domain name: 
incorporation is expensive, and it requires yearly reports and tax 
filings, so I'd avoid it if it were up to me.

I don't feel that paying for SSL certificates is in the BLU's best 
interest: all they do is close the "lock" icon on the browsers that 
access the site. I know that browser designers shill for the X.509 
industry, by putting "insecure" warnings on http-only sites, but I think 
there are still some free SSL certs available if the BLU decides it's 
essential.

That's my 2¢. YMMV.

Bill Horne


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