Our production server runs in Hyper-V.
Joel Coehoorn Director of Information Technology York College, Nebraska 402.363.5603 *jcoeho...@york.edu <jcoeho...@york.edu>* The mission of York College is to transform lives through Christ-centered education and to equip students for lifelong service to God, family, and society On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Mark Tompsett <mtomp...@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 > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
