[Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?

[Adam Boettiger]

Brad Knowles wrote:
>     BTW, I'd like to thank you for your good questions.  This will make 
> excellent fodder for the FAQ, and I'm surprised that it wasn't already 
> there.

Brad - No worries.  Happy to be the guinea pig. ;)

Here's something else you may want to add as I'm sure I'm not the 
only one in this situation...

I was looking for something that would allow me to run Mailman 
and learn as I go about the install process and tweaking it. I 
didn't want to pay the $99 to $250 for a dedicated box (overkill 
for what I want to do with it).

What I found was Linode http://www.linode.com/, where they offer 
VPS accounts that you can configure from scratch with one or more 
boots of five flavors of Linux.  Well documented forums.  Email 
form support that is responsive. Root access and the ability to 
make all the mistakes I want to for (and this is the best part) 
the starting price of $19.95 per month...

It's like being able to ride a cheap bike with training wheels to 
learn before moving to a dedicated box (if that is even needed 
for small work).

In any case, a great thing to add to the FAQ I think as many I 
imagine are learning and it's better to learn cheaply than to 
have to invest a ton of money.

HTH

AB