Hi Elizabeth, Acquia (www.acquia.com) is a company started by the creator of Drupal and offers an interesting set of services that include hosting and support, all in one place (http://acquia.com/products-services). Not sure if they have a deal for non-profits but it's worth asking.
Cheers, Gilberto On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Elizabeth Bacon <li...@elizabethbacon.com>wrote: > Hi IxDA peeps, > > We're looking for hosting service & Drupal support suggestions as > options to consider for the upcoming new IxDA.org website. Presently > we're hosted by Dreamhost and that may be the right option going > forward but we'd love to get some additional ideas from the > community. Here are our technical specifications: > > - Web-accessible IP address > - Apache web server (2.x preferred) > - PHP 5.2 minimum > - MySQL 5.0 minimum > - Unix environment (OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc.) required > - PHP should be set to at least 64 MB of RAM per process, and we need > the Apache mod_rewrite module enabled on the server. > - IRunning an Opcode cache is recommended. > - Storage requirements of 2GB (1GB of storage space for the site's > mySQL database and an additional 1GB of storage for files like > images, videos, PDFs, etc. should be sufficient to begin with) > - Bandwidth requirements will be driven by the number of visits to > the site and the type of behavior visitors engage in while there. (We > presently have a membership of 12,000, and it's growing at a rate of > about 100 members per month. This past month, we've seen 50,000 > visits, mostly via Google searches that land on our discussion > pages.) > > The other major component is having Drupal admins available for > maintenance, fixing any problems that occur and possibly for making > ad-hoc changes to the system when needed. > > We appreciate your inputs! Either post here or email me via > ixd(at)elizabethbacon(dot)com. Thank you! > > Cheers, > Liz / IxDA Vice-President & Conan wrangler > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
