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

Jeffrey Johnson ortelius at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 09:24:06 PDT 2017


Sent the theme to you Alex separately. We need to get it checked into
github, but its probably changed already since this iteration.

Ill ask them for an export next week.

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> Great, then the todo list is:
> 1. Get the Theme
> 2. Decide on migration method:
>  2a. Use the wordpress migrate feature
>  2b. Manually copy an export from wordpress
>  2c. Manually copy the material and db (least preferred).
>
> Can you ask them to provide the Theme, and a site export for method 2b.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 08/25/2017 08:19 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>> 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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>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
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