Jan
31
As I look closer and closer at the server requirements for Moodle and consider server admin more carefully, I still have difficulty wrapping my head around why more people don’t use third parties? For example, I use bluehost and they make everything in my life sooooooo easy when it comes to web administration. I suspect that there are significant legal issues related to education and student confidentiality that impact this and I know that there is lots of literature available. And I’ve lived through the experiences of the US departement of justice cracking down on some of my clients, which had pretty heavy impacts on their business based on where and how their servers were hosted. However, I would really like to talk in a peer setting about this topic in a little more detail, specifically as it relates to Moodle and Education in Canada, if anybody is interested.
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I think you’re on the mark here Miguel: there are myriad hosting options, particularly if one’s leveraging Moodle (or WordPress or…) with a relatively small number of users.
Where it shifts is when there’s hundreds or thousands of user accounts to manage: the bandwidth costs are exponential with a lot of hosting companies and the incremental user management costs (yes, even if you’re doing the user management) suddenly make running one’s own server better value–even if a full-time server admin needs to be hired.