How much do we expect to be paying to Wordpress each year for this service?
John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Sep 6, 2013 8:23 AM, "Erik Moeller" erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Leslie Carr lcarr@wikimedia.org wrote:
Currently the blog is in a partially maintained by Operations state. In ops, we have a few concerns - #1 is security (exemplified by our recent security incident) of having a wordpress instance in our production environment. #2 is support of the blog from a technical standpoint. We are currently all oversubscribed with trying to keep the production sites up and speedy. The blog is low priority for us compared to the wiki's,
and
therefore is often neglected. When we hire about 5 more ops people, it
may
be more sustainable, but right now, it's not - so it would actually be a net positive for the Operations team to move the blog onto a dedicated third party, and will also hopefully prevent any future security
incidents.
Exactly. Just because we have people who have no trouble maintaining a WordPress install doesn't mean we should. Time is always limited, and we have to prioritize. Working with a reputable third party that also drives development of the same open source software seems like a perfectly reasonable choice to me in this instance. And BTW - we do get situations where the blog gets a huge spike of traffic every once in a while, e.g. during the SOPA/PIPA protest, so hosting it ourselves is not as effortless as it may seem, without even accounting for customization requests from our communications team, etc.
Erik
Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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