[Labs-l] Labs to host wikilovesmonuments.org?

[Maarten Dammers]

Hi everyone,

For Wiki Loves Monuments we currently have a website at 
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/ . We're going to move that to 
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/ so this is a good moment to think 
about how we're going to do this. Currently this website is hosted on a 
standard virtual machine paid for by Wikimedia Nederland. Wordpress was 
installed, some custom add ons and a skin was added. Some people have 
Wordpress accounts and a few (one or two?) people have shell access. 
Having a VM is flexible, but because only a few people have shell 
installing things or solving problems can take a while. The server isn't 
really monitored and maintained on a regular basis.

We wrote down some basic requirements.
* LAMP server
* Wordpress installed + caching + our custom skins etc
* Enough rights for Elke and others to be able to do their job
* Enough resources in September to be able to handle the huge amount of hits
* Monitored and maintained

For the first points we could just get a VM anywhere, but the last point 
is the problematic one. Might this be something to host on the labs? 
That way it would be much easier to have this community supported.

Maarten