"Dynamic" web site, <http://www.acert.cornell.edu/>. |
Others:
CCMR's web service shuts down and Freed's web site continues to work correctly.
5/12/13: Jack signed off on this project.
NOTES: Required spooling up a new project to migrate CCMR's FTP service.
1A) Attempt migration to a CIT service.
1B) To the degree CIT hosting service technology works for ACERT, align near- and long-term support from IWS (of CIT) <http://www.it.cornell.edu/about/atsus/iws/>. IWS needs to know our timelines to migrate the site. Request to IWS is for an estimate to help with:
2) Longer term, consider site re-write using contemporary tools and services. We may need to look harder into this if the above migration proves difficult.
Project completed.
5/1/13: Oliver asked Curt if project is completed so Jack can sign off on it.
To do's:
April 15, 2013, Monday: Oliver wrote to Curt requesting time estimate for cut-over, with link to above to-do's. And the work required if cut-over not for this week.
April 15, 2013,Monday: Pinged Curt re: CIT work closure.
4/5/13: The copy of web site is on CIT-hosted web server. All technologies seem to be working correctly on the new location, but must be further confirmed by Dee. Dee can connect and modify items in the new location.
To do's:
April 5, 2013, Friday: Oliver sent Curt a copy of this project's current status and to-do's, asking for time-frames for to-do's leading up to the domain name change Barry will need to do. Requested time-frame estimates within a week or so.
April 5, 2013, Friday: Oliver sent Curt copy of CIT's 2-page documentation (from 4/1/13) of the new site's structure and connection info, based on CIT's "look-see".
April 4, 2013, Thursday: Dee and Barry. Over 2 hours? Barry helped Dee connect to new location and start to reconcile between new location and current (production) server.
March 20, 2013, Wednesday: Barry and Oliver. Over 2 hours. Fixed many problems with the copied data so it would work well.
March 6, 2013, Wednesday: Barry and Oliver. Over 2 hours. Migrated copy of web site to new location. Emailed Dee to request she connect to new location. Notified Dee to make changes to new site if changes made to production site so cut-over would lose no data.
3/7/13: Lining up CIT's IWS support. Oliver wrote to Curt and Jack:
Jack and Curt,
The estimate for CIT's Integrated Web Services (IWS) group to do the work I recommend is $152 – $228 ( 2-3 hours $76/hour). As we’ve discussed, their work will produce documentation describing how the site is configured/installed, including database information, file structure, etc.
A significant positive outcome from this work is that when your staff needs IWS’s assistance with your web site, they will know the site’s framework when it was working correctly. This is thus also an investment to facilitate your staff’s access to IWS staff as a (fee) resource, if needed. In its new location, it obviously will not be under Barry’s support so this is an effort to line up this replacement support.
To be clear, this estimate does not cover IWS documenting Dee’s web design or PHP coding work. If we wanted any more documentation (along the lines of what functionality there is, how the application is implemented, and/or how it works), then this would be additional time and an additional deliverable. I do not recommend this extra work. Instead, you can continue to depend on Dee, who will continue to be the “owner” responsible for the site’s code itself.
If you agree with this investment, I can connect Curt (and his account number) with IWS so they can move forwards. In moving forward, I am available to Curt to assist regarding timing and any other facilitation. For example, the timing will need to be coordinated with Barry and Dee’s current efforts, both of whom I have cc:ed on this message. I have also cc:ed Joanne since she is a significant stake-holder of this web site.
Please let me know if you’d prefer we do something else, or if I have missed addressing a concern. Thank you, -Oliver.
3/6/13: Barry copied the MySQL and files (PHP, etc) from the current production (old) web server to the new (staging) web server. This is Barry's summary of what has been done and what needs to be done.
2/14/13: Oliver gave Jack a status update.
2/14/13: CIT's IWS had not heard back from Barry. Tried again.
2/6/13: CIT's IWS made a contact request to Barry, per my request. As part of developing a quote for us.
1/29/13: CIT's IWS contacted me, from my request to them from 1/17 (with their apologies!). I spoke to them 1/30 (Thur), and hope for a follow-up discussion early in the week of 2/4.
1/17/13: CIT provisioned LAMP web hosting for us.
1/11/113: Confirmed that CIT AT can host the web site for free, <http://atcsupport.cit.cornell.edu/itrequest/main.cfm?cmd=4>.
1/8/13: Oliver put in a request for service to CIT's Academic Technologies (AT) group (Todd Maniscalco <tam42>). They will determine if this is a "fit" for their (free) service offerings.Ticket ID: 38530. Case number: INC000000770987.
Oliver learned of a peer research group that can host this LAMP-based web server in a shared hosting environment for "cheap". Before pursuing that further, Oliver will see if another part of CIT can host this service for free.
12/17/12 (Mon): Oliver submitted request to <webservices@cornell.edu>. Since been confirmed that just exploring this option will cost a VM hosting fee as part of using CIT's otherwise-free LAMP service.
The required VM costs $105.00/mo. <http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/managed_servers/fees.cfm>.
Michael Hint had CU's hostmaster change the <acert.cornell.edu> domain name in CU's DNSDB so it can accept changes from CRCF staff (12/18/12). Before this, the only person listed was former CCMR IT lead, who had left quite a while ago
CIT offers a web development service.
AWP: Used by EMC2 for their web site. They would recommend them.
Barry: PHP/ MySQL-based.
Diane works part-time.
Ideas discussed at the meeting
There may be some personal pages. Such as for Keith Earl.
None recorded by me.
N/A.
ACERT web site (as well as ftp) could be hosted by Chemistry Department and managed by its Webmaster.
(5) Web site hosting currently provided by CCMR for the Freed group.