 |
 |
Hi Mike, I suggest you reach out to Reclaim Hosting. They are extremely responsive. I've been looking into this service for a few months now as something we could offer to faculty and students and I don't believe the portal product (Domain of One's Own) would be appropriate for a library website but Reclaim does offer a managed hosting product for WordPress Multisites. Janet Swatscheno Instructor & Digital Publishing Librarian University Library University of Illinois at Chicago 801 South Morgan Street Chicago, IL 60607 On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 5:13 PM Michael Paulmeno < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Does anyone have experience hosting with or knowledge of websites using > Reclaim Hosting? They are a small shop originally started at the > University of Mary Washington and are focused on allowing people to have a > domain/web space of their own. > > The reason for my question my institution recently contracted with > Reclaim. This means we have one of those branded portals where any > students, faculty, or staff can create an account and have access to cPanel > and such (basically all the benefits of shared hosting at no cost). This > is a great service. However the library is in the early stages of > redesigning our website. Doing so will include moving our site from Joomla > to WordPress. However since the college as a whole is no longer hosting > WordPress in house, we have been informed we must use Reclaim instead. > > On the surface it seems like a good deal. Having a space of our own with > cPanel actually gives us more flexibility than our current situation. > Presently we have a Linux server hosted by IT to which I alone have SSH > access. With Reclaim we can host a wide variety of apps, have our own > sub-domain, store documents, etc. Essentially we'll have everything we > have save root access, which we can live without. Plus there is a web > interface so people other than me can log in and do work.troubleshooting. > > My one concern, however, is bandwidth. Reclaim offers unlimited bandwidth > for each domain. Infinity is a fine number, but given their focus I am > starting to wonder if our use case is more than their system is designed to > handle. Our website isn't terribly huge with about 40-50,000 page views > per month and almost all static web pages with a modest amount of images > and little to no video (I'm not sure what that translates to in terms of > data transferred). However as the Systems Librarian I want to make sure to > gather as much information as possible so we know what we are getting into. > > Cheers, > Mike > > Michael Paulmeno > Systems Librarian > Scribner Library 210 > Skidmore College > Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > (518) 580-5505<tel:518-580-5505> > pronouns: he/him/his >