>Try Confluence <https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence> from >Atlassian for a wiki. It fits the bill of being an easy to use and being a >wiki ;-)
If I didn't mention the Atlassian toolset, from Confluence to Jira, and their many add-ons as a very robust alternative to Sharepoint, then I should have. Thanks for the reminder, Glen ari On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Glen Barnes <glen at mytoursapp.com> wrote: > A few of my notes in answer to, and +1 to things raised in the responses: > > > > If the cloud server goes down, you have no ability to fix it. You just > > have to wait. > > > > Which is just the same as an onsite server. Amazon/etc. have teams of > people dedicated to just keeping the servers running and to deal with > security. Local IT person just can't compete with that. If you can find a > local IT company who are experts at supporting your services running on > cloud services then this is a much better proposition. > > > > When your data is off-site with a third party you don't have control over > > it. You will think you do though! > > > > I think this is a really important thing to consider. You often don't 'have > control' over it if you host it yourself either. If you are help to ransom > by 'IT' then this can be just as bad. I think a good disaster recovery and > backup plan is essential. Consider things like Amazon Glacier for long term > back ups. Mutli-availablity zones and local backups. Also look for services > that let you recover from accidental deletions and can recover items. > > > > Having multiple users accessing the same files at the same time can get > > tricky with off-site storage > > > Google Docs is an option for any of the Office style documents. Being able > to collaboratively edit documents is a godsend. You can also easily share > the docs with external people such as vendors and contractors and not have > to email versions of Word docs back and forth. > > > I am now exploring wikis, and especially Sharepoint (not a wiki, but a very > > useful way to organize files and related ephemera), looking for better > ways > > to ensure that files are grouped together in ways that facilitate work, > > rather than adding to backup costs.... These, too, are sanest hosted in > the > > Cloud. > > > Try Confluence <https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence> from > Atlassian for a wiki. It fits the bill of being an easy to use and being a > wiki ;-) > > > > > The file server is the hardest piece, because it is so dependent on your > > external internet connection speed (mostly) and latency (the time it > takes > > your action to travel over the wires to an externally-hosted document). > > > If you are storing content on Amazon s3 then check out the storage gateway > (and its competitors) - http://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/. This > service > has a local cache which means less data across the wire. > > And lastly even if you continue to host internally you should be thinking > about how you can harness some cloud services for things like backup and > caching. If you publish your collections online you will be amazed out how > much better performance you get if you cache the images using Amazon > CloudFront. > > Cheers from down under! > > -- > Glen Barnes > Founder/CEO > e: glen at mytoursapp.com > p: +64 (9) 3600 617 > m: +64 (21) 0429 471 > > --------------------------------------------------- > Sign up to our newsletter - http://eepurl.com/c1R4g > --------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/ >
