[Texas] pytexas.org DNS

[Steve Holden]

There isn't any tearing rush, right? Much better to do it as routine maintenance when you have time.

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On Mar 7, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Brad Allen wrote:

> I am completely jammed up in the next few days with work deliverables
> at the same time as attending PyCon tutorials...this is a good idea
> but will have to wait till later.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Victor Trac <victor.trac at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Brad,
>> It shouldn't take very long if you're familiar with AWS and DNS. If you
>> don't already have an AWS account, sign up at https://aws.amazon.com. Then
>> you should be able to follow this guide to get pytexas.org over to route53:
>> 
>> http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/R53Example.html
>> 
>> Once that's done, the next step is to start creating accounts for others to
>> have control over the zone through IAM:
>> 
>> http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/UsingWithIAM.html
>> 
>> The IAM doc makes it seem a bit more complicated than it needs to be,
>> because you can set it all up using the web GUI. Let me know once you get to
>> this step and I can help.
>> 
>> --Victor
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Brad Allen <bradallen137 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Victor Trac <victor.trac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> One option is to move the domain to Amazon's Route53 and create IAM
>>>> (Identity Access Management) individual accounts for everyone who needs
>>>> access. That'll allow more than one person to control the domain and
>>>> alleviates the "bus" issue. I can help guide the process if that's the
>>>> direction you guys want to go.  I suspect route53 would be even cheaper
>>>> than
>>>> EasyDNS.
>>> 
>>> That sounds worth exploring. How long will it take to set up? There
>>> are four days left before payment to EasyDNS is due on pytexas.org.
>>> 
>>> The 'bus' issue is low risk for this year (hopefully!), so if we run
>>> out of time we can always do it later before the next time it expires.
>> 
>> 

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