Looking for web-hosting

[monty hill]

Hi Dale,

Good to hear about your recording efforts! It is a funny thing,
because at Tuscarora up here in WNY, we are beginning to look for a
solution to the very same problem that you have.

First off, it might be a good idea to investigate any local
universities that would be willing to help out. Like Richard said, it
will be something you will have to pay attention to, because if the
primary person you are working with decides to leave from the
institution, then you are short support from the interior of the
University. One of the institutions you could look at working with
within the university/college would be a library, which is interested
in holding onto things for a long time, and keeping them archived.

Of course, in this case, you probably might not have a nice website
etc to get access to the material. Regardless of the case, when
working with institutions such as this, you will need to draft a
Memorandum of Understanding, to basically figure out what exactly is
the role and responsibilities of you and your language and the
institution you are working with-- this is mainly to determine who
would be able to see these materials, and ideally, it is a document
which you will never have to work with.

If you have a community center available to you with public computer
terminals, another of the things you could do to just afford community
access to the materials, is simply host all of your data on the local
network, which would make things incredibly fast and would also mean
that you wouldn't have to worry about re-encoding your data, keeping
it at archive quality for those people who would be interested in such
a thing.

Ideally, you're going to want to be holding onto all the recordings in
a few formats/media (i.e. DVDs, different hard drives) etc, so you
will still have everything if your current method of serving it goes
south.

Hope this helps,
Monty Hill
Tuscarora Language Program
Lewiston, NY


On 4/22/11, Dale McCreery <mccreery at uvic.ca> wrote:
> 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
>