[Koha] Koha on virtual machine?

[Coehoorn, Joel]

Our production server runs in Hyper-V.


  Joel Coehoorn
Director of Information Technology
York College, Nebraska
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On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Mark Tompsett <mtompset at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I run a local VirtualBox VM on my Windows 7 machine for development. I
> would never consider such a thing for production. It is possible? Yes, I
> would think so. Should you do it? Not on a machine which is being used as a
> desktop computer, in my opinion.
>
> Have you considered an external host provider (such as digitalocean.com)?
> If your IT guy could set up DNS entries to point to a hosted VM, your small
> library might be well accommodated by cheaper plans (like digitalocean's
> $10/month plan). Compare that against the cost of replacement hardware.
> It's about the same, if not cheaper.
>
> Then, follow the package installation instructions at:
>    http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian (the recommended OS of
> preference)
> (or http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages -- I'm
> partial to Ubuntu myself)
> It would be relatively simple to maintain.
>
> Plus, you then provide external access at no extra cost, and can likely
> get any further assistance you need more readily and remotely from one of
> many Koha support providers. :)
>
> Just my take on your situation.
>
> GPML,
> Mark Tompsett
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