At this point I'm just investigating our options.  The campus is using RedDot and clamps us down significantly on what we can do on it.   (I'm reminded of the words from the theme from Outer Limits..."we control the vertical and the horizontal"...lol)  I thought it might be nice to play with our insider (or in-house pages) on Drupal to kind of test the waters and see what we think.  We have several digital collections, an access database of databases, and several scripts that are non-RedDot insider data...  I've been doing a space needs analysis the last few weeks... So it's on my mind. 

At Code4Lib, you folks sure made it seem glowing for library type applications.  We had a web server that did run Clio but were pushed into a hosted ILLiad site situation.  I was hoping to use that virtual server as a test bed for drupal...but my IT folks are not so keen on this idea and started asking for money to still use it.   It just seemed to me that where it sits these days is not as big of thing when money is involved...security not withstanding...


Jill

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Kane
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 6:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] drupal question

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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>



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