Hi all I agree with Brooke, the cloud is just someone else's computer. With all the advantages and disadvantages that brings.
Chris On 10 December 2014 7:06:37 am NZDT, BWS Johnson <abesottedphoe...@yahoo.com> wrote: >Salve! > >> I have a question about installation of Koha. >> >> Relative to hosting Koha in the cloud as opposed to on our own local >> servers on our domain (which I assume most people do), what is the >thinking >> about the ease of installing and updating if it is hosted >"externally" >> versus on our own servers? >> > > >As long as you have access to the command line and can update and >change things at will, then there is no difference between the cloud >and a physical local server. That latter bit seems to be a big problem >with a lot of companies, though. So choose a service provider with >great care and after a lot of testing. You not only needs be able to >update Koha, but all of Koha's dependencies as well. > > >> >> Are there any security issues I should be concerned about in either >case? > >> > > >The only difference I can spot might actually weigh as a positive in >favour of cloud based service. When you have a physical server and >suffer a local catastrophe, such as an earthquake, fire, sinkhole, et >cetera, there goes your data. If you found a cloud based service that >allows you to maintain things routinely, there shouldn't be any >difference. You're trusting someone else when you select a hosted >service, but this would be the same trust you would put in a normal >vendor in most cases, anyway. If you hire a new employee for your >building and give them a set of keys, you're taking a security risk, >too, but in both cases that risk ought be calculated. > >Security issues in general are shared over a specific listserv that's >populated by trusted Community members. Bugs on that list are fixed >with extreme prejudice. > >My final note is to consider if you're going to actually *need* the >data that you collect and keep. A certain naughty Library that shall >remain nameless used to keep the Social Security Numbers of all of >their Patrons in a note field on a non Koha system that would literally >pop up *every* time someone checked out. > >Cheers, >Brooke >_______________________________________________ >Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz >http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
