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I like Eric's suggestion of a cloud server, as we could set this up via our new relationship with CLIR/DLF which means management of the web resources can be swapped around without having to move to another server. Recently, I've been moving web sites I manage for different non-profit groups to situations like WordPress.com, which makes it trivial to pass on responsibility. Going to AWS or something similar for Code4Lib is like that. I urge serious consideration of this path, and thanks, Eric, for the suggestion. Roy On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 7:51 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On May 7, 2018, at 6:36 PM, Wick, Ryan David <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > After over 10 years of hosting http://code4lib.org at Oregon State > University Libraries, we'd like to offer up the opportunity to another > institution or group. > > > > The sites are currently hosted on an aging physical server, and we > figured this would be a good time to transition. > > > > The server currently includes code4lib.org (Drupal), wiki.code4lib.org > (Mediawiki), planet.code4lib.org (Planet) and vote.code4lib.org (Rails) > > OSU has also been managing domain registration for code4lib.org for a > few years now. > > > > Given the need for systems administration, software and security > updates, maintenance, backups, etc. we’re looking for an institution with > sufficient resources to take this on. Making some server accounts for > community members available is very important. > > > > There is also an opportunity to explore moving on from Drupal, since > it's overkill for what very little we use it for. But I think it's > important to preserve what we've created (especially past conferences) and > for the community to control our content. I believe that should be a > separate conversation than the hosting though, at least initially. > > > > I plan to continue assisting with user account management and some other > back-end tasks, though I welcome any help with that. > > > > Let me know if there is serious interest, or if there are other > questions or concerns. > > > Ryan, about how much disk space is required for the totality of Code4Lib > content, not necessarily including operating system, applications, etc. > Less than 80 GB? Also, how much RAM does your current hardware use? What > I'm getting as it, "How much might it cost to have a cloud server?" --Eric > Morgan >