On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:48 AM Taavi Väänänen taavi@debian.org wrote:
Now that IPv4 scarcity is no longer a factor in this, we could in theory set up custom domains for everyone that wants one. Are we willing to do this or do we want to keep some requirements for having one? In my head the biggest argument for encouraging/requiring use of *.wmcloud.org is that it removes a major SPOF possibility from individual maintainers having control of vanity domains and then disappearing leaving the project stuck.
Reposting from IRC for wider visibility:
[16:38] < bd808> I think your note about a vanity domain being a possible point of failure for a service is the main concern I would have too taavi, but having agreed with that I think things being hosted outside of Cloud VPS is a much bigger risk of loss than needing to replace URLs. [16:39] < bd808> I'm happy to be on the record as staying both "don't use a vanity domain for your Wikimedia project" and "host your tool's vanity domain with WMCS" ;)
Bryan