If we're talking CiviCRM, it must be February

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kathc's picture
Start: 
2010-02-01 17:30 - 19:30 America/Montreal
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Event type: 
User group meeting

We'll be talking about CiviCRM for the main part of the next meetup. (Multisite at the one after, right?)

Location will be 15 Auriga Drive (National Union building).

Comments

Agree

kasiawaka's picture

Neil will prep the presentation but again, we want to have time to introduce meeting participants and have time for discussion about how we use CiviCRM and what issues we have.

CiviCRM hosted?

kathc's picture

I just got through moving CiviCRM to my own server to be able to give it more memory and extended time to think about things, so it's working much better now. It's nice to have the security of running things internally also.

I'm wondering though, if that's normal. Do most people run this on their own server, or with a web host, like a just-Drupal site?

hosted

liquidcms's picture

Haven't done much with civi but would guess its a web app like any other. If this is an intranet app then i guess you could run on a machine internal to your office (but likely not your personal work machine).

Likely just comes down to same basic web app question - do you need to have anyone access it remotely? How remotely?

The other issues like processing speed and memory are just issues with your particular host and are not necessarily specific to hosted vs personal PC. I have a pretty screamin' fast devel box with a ton of memory - but i also have hosted servers that run sites faster than they run on my local.

drupal (any cms) ==> shared hosting =======> typically not a great idea!!

access

kasiawaka's picture

Yeah, exactly, the question is about who is suppose to have access to it. If you are using CiviCRM as a company "address book", then hosting it on your internal server will be enough. But if you will ever want "outside" users to be able to register for events, donate or buy membership online using CiviCRM, you will need to have the installation accessible from "outside".

When hosting anything internally or externally, you may want to think about the costs, tech support (what do you do if your server goes down and your website goes down with it too?), internet speed to and from your internal server etc.

Kasia

Hosting CiviCRM

Neil Adair's picture

Most people will use an online host, VPS or dedicated server depending on resources and traffic. Even for small sites it is very useful if you are collecting email addresses for newsletters etc. CiviCRM has advanced contact features such as contact merging. If you are collecting emails from multiple forms it will automatically match and compile the data in a single contact. There is also a deduping feature.