Same server for all country websites

I'd like to suggest to have all country websites on the same server. The church should save many $.

Thanks for the suggestion. We agree that we could save money doing this. Also, we think that we can provide more security by hosting the sites at Church headquarters. This is something we hope to accomplish in the near future.

Tom

tomw wrote:Thanks for the suggestion. We agree that we could save money doing this. Also, we think that we can provide more security by hosting the sites at Church headquarters. This is something we hope to accomplish in the near future.

Tom

From other discussions with you, I don't think you mean precisely "the same server," as the original poster indicated, but rather on Church servers as opposed to them being scattered around the world in their hosting.

I'd think having the servers more "local" to the users would be better so as not to burden the country to country or even continent to continent infrastructure. I think that's the way other mega sites run. But those are all decisions that are made well above my pay grade.

Years ago, ICS release new LDS.org. The staff talk to us that all LDS.org will be translated to ten or twelve other languages after all English LDS.org will be changed to the new pattern. Today, years ago, the English site isn't all changed to the new version and we don't have any translations (only two or tree parts translated only to Spanish). In my viewpoint, if all LDS.org content are translated to other languages, we can't need Country Sites. Or, "Area sites" can be created inside LDS.org for people searching informations about the Church in a specific country or area, with local news and area presidency messages added in the system like wards and stakes add informations on LUWS or S&I units add informations on LDS Institutes sites. It's my view on it...

(Sorry for this bad English).

Hope it will be same CMS for all.

??? I can't understand...

I think CMS = Content Management System.

Any of you know the new system of Country Web Sites now in test by ICS? See it here: https://tech.lds.org/wiki/index.php/Country_Web_sites

Joomla is great! I wonder when Italian units will be allow to have their own site!
By the way. It'll be possible to link actual Branch's Web Page (even if not official) into maps.lds?

Joomla is good. I have set up many sites using it. However Drupal is now my CMS of choice. You may know it is also now used for the website of http://whitehouse.gov/.

I noticed that Joomla is used for this site, and it is very easy to set up a site quickly, but in the long run I think that Drupal offers much more flexibility. It has a powerful API for adding features, and it's taxonomy feature is much more useful than the category and section formats for articles. It is easy to integrate external authentication methods (LDS Account anyone?).

When we set up the first country site in the UK, we used Joomla. I am no longer involved in that project and they have since re-written using an entirely bespoke system. However if I were to start it again I would definitely use Drupal.