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

[Ryan Lane]

> 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.
>

Sorry, Labs isn't intended for production uses like this. It's
intended for test, development and semi-production uses (like running
bots or tools), where there is no intention of production-level
support. It would be problematic if your blog went down due to Labs
issues, and we don't (and never plan to) have a production-level of
support for Labs.

I second the recommendation that we try to get this hosted as another
wordpress site on our current blog. We have a test/dev version of it
in Labs that can be used to develop skins, test plugins, etc, so that
they can be moved into the production blog.

- Ryan