Posts made by Howard Miller

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There's nothing in Moodle that requires access to the (public) internet. An entirely internal installation of Moodle should be the same speed as one installed in the "cloud" - all else being equal.

The first things to check when Moodle is slow is to run the performance report and then to check that caching is properly configured. Don't try to cache on relatively slow NFS storage (for example)
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For us, the critical factor is not the actual upgrade it's the time it takes to make a complete set of backups once Moodle has been taken offline.

This is now several hours - but we have order of 20TB of data
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