[SAC] New Wordpress Install this month [Need Volunteers]

[Jeffrey Johnson]

Yes, no required plugins, db and media are currently tiny. They will be
back next week.

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 08:07 Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> Have you heard back from the vendor on the Wordpress requirements?
> Particularly the plugin list? Any idea on the db type/size, amount of
> media currently in the development site?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 08/16/2017 11:47 AM, Alex M wrote:
> > The current OSGeo site uses about 20 GB/month, 20% of a single cpu, and
> > 3-4GB of ram. While I expect the new one to be delivering more data,
> > most of the options I looked at offered 1TB, or no data cap at all on
> > the cheapest plans backed by SSD drives, and much newer cpus.
> >
> > http://www.osgeo.org/awstats/
> >
> http://webextra.osgeo.osuosl.org/munin/osgeo.org/web.osgeo.org/index.html
> >
> > Of course if we self host most of that is not an issue. The biggest
> > concern is keeping it updated and backed up. Some of those features are
> > part of hosting plans.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alex
> >
> > On 08/16/2017 06:36 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> >> I think 60-300/year is ambitious/unrealistic. To host sites like this
> >> properly, it is usually around $100/month ... but would still require
> >> someone on our side to set things up.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> So why wouldn't we host with one of those $60-$300 a year options?
> Assume we
> >>> still need effort to set up and integrate etc...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 10:11 PM Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> The new website overhaul needs a Wordpress instance by the end of
> August.
> >>>>
> >>>> The related tasks are here:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=!closed&milestone=Website+rebranding+2017
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. We need a volunteer familiar with Wordpress to handle the install
> and
> >>>> migration OR we need to identify a contractor (There is $3000 USD
> >>>> allocated from the Board for this)
> >>>>
> >>>> 2. We need to decide on the best method of deployment: since a
> >>>> Production and Staging site have been requested, I think we need to
> do a
> >>>> multi-site install.
> >>>>
> >>>> 3. Simply installing is not the hard part, it's planning for the db,
> db
> >>>> backup, Wordpress upgrade, and LDAP integration that need some
> thought.
> >>>>
> >>>> OSGeo7 is still just an idea so that's not an option. So it's seems
> like
> >>>> OSGeo6 is the logical place for now.
> >>>>
> >>>> Something containerized seems like a good idea but I don't know how to
> >>>> handle the frequent Wordpress upgrades if we do that. A Wordpress
> docker
> >>>> is available, but if I understand correctly docker is immutable, so to
> >>>> upgrade you replace your docker instance with a copy of the new one.
> >>>> This might work if the docker image includes the plugins we need,
> media
> >>>> is in a docker volume, and the db is external on the main host (pretty
> >>>> sure a Mysql db is there already).
> >>>>
> >>>> Fallback options include 3rd party hosting like AWS Lightsail,
> >>>> Wordpress.com or Pantheon. I estimate these options would cost
> $60-$300/yr
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Alex
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> >>>
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> >>> Jody Garnett
> >>>
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