Posted by gratefulcreative on June 18, 2013 at 5:56am
Hi all,
Can anyone please provide recommendations on how to host Drupal locally in a slow-internet environment?
The problem is that we are not able to see / update our website from our office given very slow connection speeds in the country (and we have one of the faster connections).
this limits the use of the site internally (no one is updating nor are we getting the consistency of vision / activities across departments).
my thinking is that we may be able to host our website locally so that we can all see / update the site and that updates can be automatically uploaded as connection speeds allow.
thanks!
Comments
Why is the internet slow?
Consider the time energy it will cost to set up a local mirror of your Drupal site. You'll have to keep it in sync with the 'production' site for both code and db. With code, thats easy, just use git hooks. With the db, you'll need a db backup and migration solution. But also consider that you've said: " see / update our website "
So... you also expect the local mirror to be a place for you to add content? Which site is the master and which is the slave? This is a total mess.
It goes back to time, money and the technical debt of having two "production" websites... its not worth it.
For the money you'd spend on this (think: your time == money) you could probably just pay for a faster ISP.
Thanks!
Hey Brant - thanks very much for your response. Turns out it was not an issue of connection speed (which is common where i was), but a conflict with the DNS server. We used an alternate DNS and saw the site
Thanks anyway!
Ken
ken d
creative director
grateful creative
www.gratefulcreative.com