Talk-listers, please see the below email forwarded from our website: Name: Archie Brown E-mail: ajbiam@gmail.com Question or comment: Will CollectionSpace install & run on Web hosts such as just host.com, bluehost.com, go daddy.com? Do you have users who are running in these and other host environments. Our website is in WordPress and we would like to use the same host but load to a different directory. Is this easily accomplished? Thanks Megan Forbes CollectionSpace Community Outreach and Support Manager megan.forbes@lyrasis.org 800.999.8558 x 2917 Main 917.267.9676 Cell meganbforbes Skype

Hi Archie, You asked: > Will CollectionSpace install & run on Web hosts such as just host.com, bluehost.com, go daddy.com? Do you have users who are running in these and other host environments. Our website is in WordPress and we would like to use the same host but load to a different directory. Is this easily accomplished? While I don't know about these three specific hosting providers you've mentioned, we and others have instances of CollectionSpace that are running on virtual private servers in the cloud, rented from other hosting providers that are likely quite similar to those. If you go to a vendor like (for instance) Linode or DigitalOcean - or possibly also one or more of the other hosting providers you've mentioned - and rent a host that's running an up to date version of some major distribution of Debian- or Red Hat-based Linux - you should in most cases be readily able to run a CollectionSpace system there. While this is somewhat of an oversimplification, pretty much most places that you can install and run a) Java 7, b) Tomcat 6 and c) PostgreSQL 9.x are likely to be places that you can also successfully install and run CollectionSpace. You can check with your prospective hosting vendor about whether they can meet those three requirements. In addition, a vendor that can give you a host running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (or 14.04.1 LTS) right "out of the box" might be the simplest and best choice for a CollectionSpace installation. In part, that's because you can run an automated installer to set up your CollectionSpace server, and that version of Ubuntu has been recently tested with that installer. Fedora 20 might be another reasonable choice at this point, if you need a Red Hat-based Linux distribution. CollectionSpace itself can - and does - live harmoniously alongside many other types of server software, storing its files in its own directories. While I haven't tried this first-hand, I can't immediately think of any reason it couldn't run just fine alongside WordPress. You'll just need to make sure your host has sufficient memory: CollectionSpace and its database, when both are running on the same host, really like to have a minimum of 2 GB of RAM and have a pretty much hard-and-fast requirement for 1.5 GB of RAM, all to themselves. And having sufficient disk space, as well, to accommodate your data - including binaries such as digital photos and other image files - is another must. More on CollectionSpace's system requirements - you'd need to add WordPress's own requirements to these suggested minimums: http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/DOC/System+Requirements+for+a+CollectionSpace+Server Aron Roberts UC Berkeley On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Megan Forbes <megan.forbes@lyrasis.org> wrote: > > Talk-listers, please see the below email forwarded from our website: > > > Name: Archie Brown > E-mail: ajbiam@gmail.com > > Question or comment: > Will CollectionSpace install & run on Web hosts such as just host.com, bluehost.com, go daddy.com? Do you have users who are running in these and other host environments. Our website is in WordPress and we would like to use the same host but load to a different directory. Is this easily accomplished? > > > Thanks > > > Megan Forbes > CollectionSpace Community Outreach and Support Manager > megan.forbes@lyrasis.org > 800.999.8558 x 2917 Main > 917.267.9676 Cell > meganbforbes Skype > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk mailing list > Talk@lists.collectionspace.org > http://lists.collectionspace.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_lists.collectionspace.org >