Visvanath Ratnaweera

"Many thanks to all for your posts. A couple more questions!"

How about the people who were answering your cross-posting in the other forum "Servers and Performance"?

Hi Michael

The OP has cross-posted! A much longer discussion is going on here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=25232

We could have spared our words

"I am unsure whether to set up a web server in our school or use a web hosting company to host it."

An important factor for your decision is whether the users primarily access Moodle within your school LAN or they are distributed in the Net.

In the first case, putting the server in your LAN makes sense. The only "disadvantage" I can think of is maintaining the server itself. But any server for that matter needs maintenance ;(

The expected traffic is an obvious factor too. 1000 users are not a big deal unless all of them want to access at the _same time_!

Then the type of your courses is important. For example people have to up/download big files (Sound, Video) often?

Hi Don

Could you clarify the problem?

I'm just curious whether there is a connection to this
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=24985 ?

".. The only way is get a faster processor, or do we have some alternative to speed up the system?"

Why, go for Linux or BSD or anything sane!

Sorry, couldn't resist