During November 5-8, SCLS staff will be moving 60 live and beta Drupal websites that we support to a new hosted solution outside of SCLS Headquarters. This move will allow SCLS staff to continue administering these sites on a scalable, reliable, industry-standard platform with improved support for our staff. To make this move, we are asking for cooperation (and some patience) from those who maintain library websites.
Complete website maintenance/updates before November 5
If you need to put something on your website to have it available during November 5-8, make sure it is added before November 5. This includes any edits that you do while logged into your Drupal site, or any file transfers you do using FileZilla, Dreamweaver, or other SFTP client.
Watch for status updates during November 5-8, and be prepared for small amounts of downtime
- Sites will be up and available for viewing for MOST of this time.
- Sites will be moving to the new server one at a time, 10-20 sites per day, during business hours.
- While a site is being moved to the new server, it will experience a brief (hopefully less than ½ hour) period of downtime, when it will display a maintenance message.
- Don't plan on making website updates during November 5-8.
- SFTP access will not be available November 5-8.
Plan for resuming normal website maintenance tasks by November 9
- Rose will email the scls-drupal email list with the list of sites whose moves were completed each day and update the Status Wiki.
- Once your site's move to the new server is completed, you can resume edits that you do while logged into your Drupal site.
- SFTP access will be restored on November 9 after all the site moves are completed.
Libraries should be able to resume all normal editing and SFTP processes on November 9th and should not notice any differences in how their sites look or behave. In the end, you can expect little-to-no change in your website maintenance experience, but our maintenance operations will be more efficient and secure.
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