Legacy Websites
(I am not sure where this question goes, so I am posting it here.)
I am in charge of the maintenance of the architecture school’s website and I have heard rumors that the entire university web service will be undergoing a mandatory migration to the YaleSites (i.e. Drupal) platform in the near future. The school’s current website is already using Drupal, but we have a number of special, legacy websites that are running on the school’s own server space.
These websites are student-designed, yearly archives of a long running program at the school called the Building Project. If the the school is no longer allowed to host these websites on our own server space, we would like to request special permission to host them somewhere else. Please advise if this is indeed the case – the information I have been hearing is unclear.
Nonetheless, these sites are important and valuable records of the school’s history and we would like to have a web-accessible space for them in perpetuity.
Examples:
http://ysoa.architecture.yale.edu/sites/BuildingProject/bp14/
http://ysoa.architecture.yale.edu/sites/BuildingProject/bp13/
http://ysoa.architecture.yale.edu/sites/BuildingProject/bp12/
Hi Peter,
The rumor is only partly true. We are in the process of retiring old servers, one of them being elsinore, Yale’s Intuitional server for yale.edu sites. Anther being Pantheon which was used for personal sites throughout Yale. We are recommending YaleSites as one of the options, because of the success the service has had with support for users with various levels of technical expertise. However, we there are other options we are recommending.
Judging from the URLs of your sites, it doesn’t look like they are on elsinore so the initial migration plan would not affect you. We are looking into this further to determine what server your sites are on. If you can provide any information, that would be helpful.