Jill, what do you want to do with Drupal.  Can we assume you just want to
host your library site on it as a content management system, or something
more involved?

David.

On 4 June 2010 20:02, Jill Ellern <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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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