Dear Friends, thank you so much for the useful info, I am amazed how many qualified answers and great advice I got in such a short time - you are a great community!!! I will take some time to decide which option is best for us, and then share my experience with you. Thank you again! Andreas P.S. @Indranil: 1) What is the number of books (not just unique titles) that you have in you library and plan to host online with Koha? --> About 4.000 2) What is the number of patrons / readers? --> About 45 3) Average circulation rates per day? --> No circulation, we are a reference library only 2017-02-01 7:19 GMT+01:00 Mahesh Angadi <mcdlibrary@gmail.com>:

Dear Friends,

When we go for koha hosting on VPS, it is preferable to choose KVM based hosting services. For eg. Digital Ocean as suggested by Fred King. KVM based hosting allows you to create your own snapshots and backup. Further, few hosting provider also allows you to mount your own custom iso. In that case, you can host your preferable live dvds in the form of custom iso or your previously configured systems snapshot over there. Usually, the file size limit for custom iso is 2 GB.

Nowadays prices of VPS are getting cheaper due to huge competition and from my personal experience I can tell that VPS hiring is highly cost effective as well as convenient.

However, make sure that, you choose this option only when you are conversant with the linux system administration part or at least you have a technical expert with you to help over it.

Mr. Mahesh Angadi, Librarian, Model College, Dombivli (East), Mumbai, India. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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