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I'm the website manager at a mid-sized art museum (220 full-time staff,
1.35 million physical visitors pa) in Sydney, Australia. Currently we host
our websites externally (in a hosting facility in the USA,
Hi Jonathan
Try this, it may help
http://www.mediatemple.net/
Regards
Tim Roberts
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R esearch
T icketing
S ervices
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This question is one of the reasons why we set up our repository on
Amazon Web Services, and why we are moving are general websites in
that direction. We just don't want to be in the business of sinking
capital we need in hardware that we may need. Moving to metered
service in such a situation
Ari,
Your statement about using Amazon as a repository is very interesting.
Can you discuss the size of the images you are sending to the repository and
how many MBs or TBs you are storing each month?
How is the speed on ingest and retrieval?
I've been looking at Amazon as well, but have
(Please excuse cross-postings)
Greetings,
The Center for History and New Media is taking a quick survey to find out
how museums are offering visitors content for mobile or handheld delivery.
We know that podcasting has become popular, and wonder how many museums are
working on mobile
We are moving about 6TB of data, mostly audio and video, to AWS. I
think we're only about 500GB in, though--it's a long project since we
invested in a T1 and everything has to upload through that pipe.
We have found no serving issues--this is the same service that
delivers Amazon's own web pages.
Sheila,
If you have not already done so, you should look at the Handheld
Online Conference at http://www.handheldconference.org/keynote/.
Also, see last year's conference at the Tate on this topic (
http://tatehandheldconference.pbwiki.com/).
And talk to Nancy Proctor at the Smithsonian
One of the advantages of internal management vs. hosting is that massive
overkill on hardware isn't a lot more expensive, in the scheme of things, than
barely good enough. What are those Dells going to cost, maybe $6000US each if
you stretch it? An adequate server would only save you $2000US.
January 2009
The Collaborative Electronic Records Project has drawn to a close. This
three-year collaboration between the Rockefeller Archive Center and the
Smithsonian Institution Archives undertook the challenge of long-term
preservation of email collections and their storage in a digital
Museums and the Web 2009
the international conference for culture and heritage on-line
April 15-18, 2009
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/
** There are two key deadlines this weekend for MW2009. **
** Regular Registration Deadline: January 31,
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