[Koha] Hosting options for Koha installation

[David Liddle]

Hello Andreas,

Very soon, I will be doing something similar for the library of the *Seminar
für Sprache und Kultur* (https://spracheundkultur.org) here in Burbach,
Germany. They, too, operate on a restrictive budget and have a strong
desire to keep their data in Europe. I researched hosts more than a year
ago, and there was one host in Austria that made my final list:

http://www.emerion.com/de/vps


They are located in Vienna, too. Our instance will be hosted here:

http://www.server4you.de/vserver/#compare

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Their headquarters is in Köln, and their data center is in Strasbourg,
France.


I cannot add much else to the advice of the others, with respect to
installation. Currently, I have a test instance installed locally, which
was easy enough, but it will be better for our production server to exist
in a more reliable environment. One suggestion I will make is to secure
your client connections with free certificates from Let's Encrypt and the
Certbot client, which makes obtaining and renewing certificates simple.

Regards,

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*David Liddle*

*IT Support Specialist*
Wycliffe Global Alliance - Europe Area
Siegenweg 30, 57299 Burbach, Germany

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On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Andreas Resch <inselkette at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Community,
>
> I am a librarian from Vienna, Austria and I would like to install Koha for
> the library of my cultural association. As it is a small association we
> have no institutional backing and therefore no IT team. I tried to install
> Koha on the server of my website but I have no root access. I asked at the
> hosting company and they said they don't offer root access. After some
> research I found providers offering "root servers" or "managed servers"
> which are a little costly (about € 30,- a month).
>
> It would be great if you could share your experiences on which hosting is
> best. Specifically my questions are:
>
>    - Are there any recommended hosting companies and products? It would be
>    best if they were in Austria or Germany but also abroad ist ok.
>    - If I get a root server will I be able to install it only with the
>    Installation instructions? I am proficient with the command line and I
>    already installed and set up Koha on a "virtual machine".
>    - Is there a better/easier way?
>
> Your help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> All the best from Vienna,
> Andreas
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