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Hello, newcomer to the list.
My name is Gary Day and I'm VLE Developer at Weston College.
I have a few questions for VLE Devs/Admins.
We are currently running Moodle on a single box configured for both network and Internet access, the time has come when I'm starting work on a rebuild, a rebuild that moves us out of our year long trial and error period, away from the bleeding edge of Fedora and applying updates and hoping it won't keel over and into a more Enterprise way of thinking.
Moodle will no longer be the start and end of our VLE, it will be a component of a VLE made up of various applications and services.
I'm pretty much addressing this to anyone serving up their own system on their own gear but any feedback would be great.
How big is your school/college/userbase?
What are the most "resource hungry" areas of your inst. in terms of hardware, database "growth", memory, disk space etc?
Are you dedicating machine(s) to your database(s) and serving up the front end(s) from another (possibly virtual) machine(s) and if so.. has this proven to be cost effective in terms of initial hardware costs and maintenance time?
On the other side of this, has it proven to be excessive?
Basically, why are you making the choices you are making and were/are they the right choices (based on your userbase/resource consumption)?
Do you believe you have made reasonably "future-proof" decisions (let's say a future five years from now)?
Thanks, in advance for any time spent on this request.
Gary.
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