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I second Roy that it'd be great to move more obligations over to CLIR/DLF now that we have a formal fiscal host. And a *huge* thanks to Oregon State and Ryan Wick specifically for all the work that's been done. This community owes a massive debt for all the labor and infrastructure that was provided. Thank you!!! I think migrating from Drupal to a static site makes a lot of sense, too. I'm biased but I think the Jekyll conference website has worked really well for the past several years. It's easy for many of us to contribute to, we could have a public repo where people can create content or issues, and the server maintenance is nonexistent. I'm pretty sure I've seen Drupal -> Jekyll conversion tools discussed on this very list. My $0.02 but this is a pretty big project and will undoubtedly require some community guidance. Best, Eric On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Roy Tennant <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > > >