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

[Jeremy Baron]

Hi,

As I said on IRC my first reaction is to just make a new blog on the
Foundation's existing WordPress instance. I think that would meet all
of your requirements except for:

> * Enough rights for Elke and others to be able to do their job

That's kinda vague (and idk what ops would allow) so I can't judge if
it's possible.

-Jeremy

(including full msg below for the benefit of the blog list)

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:40, Maarten Dammers <maarten at mdammers.nl> wrote:
> 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