Looking for web-hosting

[Richard Littauer]

As far as I see it, you have four options:

   - Hosting it on your own website. This isn't a bad move, but it requires
   that one of your team has to have some knowledge of websites in general, or
   you'll have to pay someone else to do it for you. Alternatively, you could
   always get an undergrad to help out with setting up a website, as they
   generally have the time and the interest (I've done this sort of thing for
   several sites now (I'm an undergrad)). The problem is that you then have to
   deal with that person if you want things uploaded, so it might be better in
   the long run to do it yourself, if you have the knowledge. A good option is
   installing a wordpress or an easy CMS  (content-managing system) and running
   your site through that, and uploading recordings and the like separately.
   For webhosting, I, and most of m informatics friends, suggest Webfaction as
   the best in the industry: great tech support, relatively cheap, lots of free
   space, limitless MySQL databases.
   - Hosting it at your university. The downside is that often IT
   departments can move around information when they update the site, which
   might interfere with your stuff. The other downside is that often your site
   being up is dependent on you staying at that university. I've seen dozens of
   sites that have gone defunct when the main professor finds another
   university.
   - Hosting it at a university - independent of your involvement. This
   mostly means attaching it to a project which that university has long term
   funding for. This is probably the best option, as you're minimally involved
   with the set-up and hosting, but it seems to me to be harder to find.
   - Hosting it independantly, using GoogleSites, Wordpress, and then free
   upload services, like YouTube, Vimeo, or even something more download-based,
   like DropBox. This is an option if you just want the information to be able
   to be downloaded, but I don't think that this is the best option for your
   potential users, who generally want something integrated into your site.

Hope this helps.

Richard

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Cathy Wheaton <chimiskwew at hotmail.com>wrote:

> It's not alot of space, but I am hosting all my recordings online to the
> public through Skydrive. I will just open another hotmail account if this
> one fills up, there is the option for both private and public access to
> Skydrive, mine is all set on public so anyone can download my recordings.
> You can store up to 25 GB for free and so far i have tons of space.
>
> I know one linguist who was hosting recordings on a website but the info
> was moved and misplaced.
>
> I am uploading recordings right now by converting to Youtube just for easy
> accessibility to the public. It's more free storage which may work for any
> recordings you think would be in high demand. I am adding text to these ones
> as learning resources.
>
> Good work Dale, you are really making a difference! The Cree recordings I
> am working with now are now becoming tremendous learning resources so
> someone will access them like me someday who wants to work with them!
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Dale McCreery
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 10:38 PM
> To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> Subject: [ILAT] Looking for web-hosting
>
>
> I'm looking for a good place to host recordings from the Sgüüx̱s
> language documentation project.  Ideally it would be a university, or an
> institution that is going to be there for a long time, and also I think it
> would be better if it were in Canada.
>
> It would also be nice to have ftp access as we’re adding resources every
> day.  Right now we have about 40gb of recordings, closer to one or two gb
> once it is converted to mp3.
>
> Can you guys suggest who I should contact, and do you have any other
> general suggestions for issues related to web hosting resources that
> should be considered?  Would be we better off hosting this ourselves, or
> are there advantages to having our resources hosted by a university?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Dale
>
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