Over the last few weeks I have been trying to consolidate our projects and applications in preparation for the eventual closure of the LSB. The best way I have been able to come up with to ensure that the projects can be maintained by the School of Education Technology Center for a while is via a virtual machine.
As of last week, the LSB web sites, iBuz, iBuzPD, Dialogue Project, The Higher Ed Support Center for Systemschange and any other site we have been hosting were migrated to a VMWare virtual machine. This virtual machine isn't going to be allocated a lot of physical resources (RAM and storage space) and should be considered an archive.
While it might seem somewhat tempting to continue to use iBuz, iBuzpd and Dialogue, everyone should realize that there will be NO backup of the data in these applications and if there are any issues with the virtual machine, I will be advising the Technology Center to simply reset the entire machine back to the state I handed it to them (erasing any new data added since).
Some schools have expressed an interest in hosting these applications in house. I believe that running an instance of a virtual machine might be the best way to do that. If you are interested in discussing this, let me know.
