543373 - SUMO installation for SeaMonkey project

Status: NEW

(mozilla.org :: Community Giving, task)

Description

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

The SeaMonkey project has decided that a SUMO installation (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support:Sumodev) would be good for SeaMonkey, too (mainly for using it as some kind of knowledge base). This bug is the request to setup a new SUMO installation then.
The idea is to use the seamonkey-project.org domain for this, so support.seamonkey-project.org would be the URL to use.
For now no livechat support is wanted, so whatever the current SUMO release number is (1.5 I think) can be used.
I'm not sure what additional resources (server, workforce) are required for this, so feel free to move this to Community Giving if anything is missing that's required for setting up such a SUMO installation.

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

As a note, the DNS for that domain is hosted by me right now, so any entries we need are to be made on my side.

Comment 2

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Depending on your requirements you need:

A. Single server (web server & database)
B. Two servers (one for web, one for db)

And either more web servers or database servers and perhaps some load balancer.

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

I am somewhat unsure what we actually need here. We need some place to run a SUMO copy and some place to run the database, but we expect very low load, as we have a lot fewer users than any of Firefox and Thunderbird. We basically just need a good knowledge base we can control, and SUMO seems to have proven itself in that regard.

Comment 4

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

At a minimum, you'll need Apache, MySQL, and Memcache available. If you want search to work, you'll also need Sphinx Search[1].

For very low load, these can all run on one box. More realistically you can probably run MySQL/Sphinx on one box and Apache/Memcache on another.

I'm sure IT will have more insight based on your traffic expectations.

[1] http://www.sphinxsearch.com/