Jill,

Though I wouldn't recommend them for a Drupal site (they put way to many limitations on their services), for comparison's sake, I have a couple of Drupal sites with a LOT of content on GoDaddy. They charge $168 for 2 years. Here is the list of hosting companies on Drupal.org: http://drupal.org/hosting


Tammy Allgood
Web Services Librarian
Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Services
Arizona State University
480-965-1797

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jill Ellern
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 12:02 PM
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] drupal question

Our IT department isn't exactly enthusiastic about us trying this out on one of their servers and are talking maintenance and disk replacement costs if we want to try it out. (They will get back to me on exactly how much later...)  It seems to us that if they are talking about charging us, we should compare prices for hosting a drupal server else ware (We have a ghost/deepfreeze server windows 2003 but that's all). Either a server we buy or hosted offsite.  However, I don't know where to start.

I know we can put this open source software on a PC...and we've done that but this isn't a solution for a production level web service  

What is the average cost of hosting a drupal server out there in the cloud?  Are there things we should know?  Would you recommend anyone that does this for libraries?

Jill

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