On May 7, 2018, at 6:36 PM, Wick, Ryan David <[email protected]> wrote:
> After over 10 years of hosting http://code4lib.org at Oregon State University > Libraries, we'd like to offer up the opportunity to another institution or > group. > > The sites are currently hosted on an aging physical server, and we figured > this would be a good time to transition. > > The server currently includes code4lib.org (Drupal), wiki.code4lib.org > (Mediawiki), planet.code4lib.org (Planet) and vote.code4lib.org (Rails) > OSU has also been managing domain registration for code4lib.org for a few > years now. > > Given the need for systems administration, software and security updates, > maintenance, backups, etc. we’re looking for an institution with sufficient > resources to take this on. Making some server accounts for community members > available is very important. > > There is also an opportunity to explore moving on from Drupal, since it's > overkill for what very little we use it for. But I think it's important to > preserve what we've created (especially past conferences) and for the > community to control our content. I believe that should be a separate > conversation than the hosting though, at least initially. > > I plan to continue assisting with user account management and some other > back-end tasks, though I welcome any help with that. > > Let me know if there is serious interest, or if there are other questions or > concerns. Ryan, about how much disk space is required for the totality of Code4Lib content, not necessarily including operating system, applications, etc. Less than 80 GB? Also, how much RAM does your current hardware use? What I'm getting as it, "How much might it cost to have a cloud server?" --Eric Morgan
