Hi, As I said on IRC my first reaction is to just make a new blog on the Foundation's existing WordPress instance. I think that would meet all of your requirements except for:
> * Enough rights for Elke and others to be able to do their job That's kinda vague (and idk what ops would allow) so I can't judge if it's possible. -Jeremy (including full msg below for the benefit of the blog list) On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:40, Maarten Dammers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > For Wiki Loves Monuments we currently have a website at > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/ . We're going to move that to > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/ so this is a good moment to think about > how we're going to do this. Currently this website is hosted on a standard > virtual machine paid for by Wikimedia Nederland. Wordpress was installed, > some custom add ons and a skin was added. Some people have Wordpress > accounts and a few (one or two?) people have shell access. Having a VM is > flexible, but because only a few people have shell installing things or > solving problems can take a while. The server isn't really monitored and > maintained on a regular basis. > > We wrote down some basic requirements. > * LAMP server > * Wordpress installed + caching + our custom skins etc > * Enough rights for Elke and others to be able to do their job > * Enough resources in September to be able to handle the huge amount of hits > * Monitored and maintained > > For the first points we could just get a VM anywhere, but the last point is > the problematic one. Might this be something to host on the labs? That way > it would be much easier to have this community supported. > > Maarten _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
