Hi Jay
This thread may be of interest:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=25033
In essence
- Moodle is free, Open Source software developed mainly on the FOSS plattform LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
- although people employ Moodle on WAMP, making it WIMP (IIS instead of Apache) gives problems.
- for new installations, especially for schools in developing countries, it makes much sense to use free software and invest the licence fees on training your personnel.
This is not just wishful thinking, I'm personally involved in a few such projects.
regards
Visvanath
Visvanath Ratnaweera
Posts made by Visvanath Ratnaweera
Moodle in English -> Hardware and performance -> Help with requirements -> Re: Help with requirements
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Hi Manish
Thanks for the clarification!
I think you are right. The question was about _managing_ a Moodle site via dial-up, and _not_ about hosting on dial-on-demand.
Hope I haven't confused the OP
Visvanath.
Thanks for the clarification!
I think you are right. The question was about _managing_ a Moodle site via dial-up, and _not_ about hosting on dial-on-demand.
Hope I haven't confused the OP
Visvanath.
Moodle in English -> Hardware and performance -> Help with requirements -> Re: Help with requirements
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Hello Manish
Are you sure that demo.moodle.com is on a dial-up connection? It could on broadband with an easydns.com DNS record.
Visvanath
Are you sure that demo.moodle.com is on a dial-up connection? It could on broadband with an easydns.com DNS record.
Visvanath
Moodle in English -> Hardware and performance -> Help with requirements -> Re: Help with requirements
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Believe it or not, I´m writng from this beautiful island Öckerö close to Göteborg in Sweden. BTW I´m supposed to be on vacation ;-(
"when you say buget it means money, .."
Yes, but it should be spelled "budget"
Anyway, the important thing about your setup is that the users are in _different cities_. So the machine could be anywhare (not necessarily in the school). Assuming that those users have reasonable download speeds, say 256 kB/s or more, an upload speed of 64 kB/s from the server is not good.
And I forgot to mention that many of broadband connections are _assymetrical_. Speeds like 512/128, 1024/256, 1200/200 (down-/up-stream) are common.
If you are a novice to server maintenance your best bet is to go to a well-managed web-hoster.
"when you say buget it means money, .."
Yes, but it should be spelled "budget"
Anyway, the important thing about your setup is that the users are in _different cities_. So the machine could be anywhare (not necessarily in the school). Assuming that those users have reasonable download speeds, say 256 kB/s or more, an upload speed of 64 kB/s from the server is not good.
And I forgot to mention that many of broadband connections are _assymetrical_. Speeds like 512/128, 1024/256, 1200/200 (down-/up-stream) are common.
If you are a novice to server maintenance your best bet is to go to a well-managed web-hoster.
Moodle in English -> Hardware and performance -> I'm a MS Server 2003, IIS 6 admin - should we switch to LAMP? -> Re: I'm a MS Server 2003, IIS 6 admin - should we switch to LAMP?
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
The question is aimed at a flame war !
First of all I would like to underline what Bill said:
- Moodle was/is developed on a LAMP installation, so you can be sure that it will operate on it well.
- However, the money you can save on licensing fees to Microsoft, you can use for training on the new platform.
If you have been administering 8 school servers I'm sure you've got the fundamentals of networking and servers straight. You'll be surprised to see how simple the "big switching" to Linux world is. If you are still concerned there are specialized LAMP distributions: boot from CD, select few options, get the network setup, copy moodle content, run its setup-script. [1]
You may not go productive from the day one, but it is a future investment which you'll never regret: it is your first step out of the Microsoft proprietary lock!
[1] http://www.moodleschule.de/course/view.php?id=32
Here you get a complete installation CD with LAMP+Moodle. The documentation is German, if there is enough interest getting it in english shouldn't be a problem.
First of all I would like to underline what Bill said:
- Moodle was/is developed on a LAMP installation, so you can be sure that it will operate on it well.
- However, the money you can save on licensing fees to Microsoft, you can use for training on the new platform.
If you have been administering 8 school servers I'm sure you've got the fundamentals of networking and servers straight. You'll be surprised to see how simple the "big switching" to Linux world is. If you are still concerned there are specialized LAMP distributions: boot from CD, select few options, get the network setup, copy moodle content, run its setup-script. [1]
You may not go productive from the day one, but it is a future investment which you'll never regret: it is your first step out of the Microsoft proprietary lock!
[1] http://www.moodleschule.de/course/view.php?id=32
Here you get a complete installation CD with LAMP+Moodle. The documentation is German, if there is enough interest getting it in english shouldn't be a problem.