How much do we expect to be paying to Wordpress each year for this service?
John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Sep 6, 2013 8:23 AM, "Erik Moeller" <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Leslie Carr <lc...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Currently the blog is in a partially maintained by Operations state. In > > ops, we have a few concerns - #1 is security (exemplified by our recent > > security incident) of having a wordpress instance in our production > > environment. #2 is support of the blog from a technical standpoint. We > > are currently all oversubscribed with trying to keep the production sites > > up and speedy. The blog is low priority for us compared to the wiki's, > and > > therefore is often neglected. When we hire about 5 more ops people, it > may > > be more sustainable, but right now, it's not - so it would actually be a > > net positive for the Operations team to move the blog onto a dedicated > > third party, and will also hopefully prevent any future security > incidents. > > Exactly. Just because we have people who have no trouble maintaining a > WordPress install doesn't mean we should. Time is always limited, and > we have to prioritize. Working with a reputable third party that also > drives development of the same open source software seems like a > perfectly reasonable choice to me in this instance. And BTW - we do > get situations where the blog gets a huge spike of traffic every once > in a while, e.g. during the SOPA/PIPA protest, so hosting it ourselves > is not as effortless as it may seem, without even accounting for > customization requests from our communications team, etc. > > Erik > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>