[NCSG-EC] Primer for tomorrow's meeting

[Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix]

Hi all

We should still try to have our meeting if possible? I know current
circumstances can be difficult, so if we can deal with what we have to deal
by email, I don't have any issues with that either.

Best,

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 2:29 PM Stephanie Perrin via NCSG-EC <
ncsg-ec at lists.ncsg.is> wrote:

> This makes sense to me, and I cannot remember who is paying for it but it
> is not me.
>
> Thanks for doing all this Raph, this stuff is not my forte!  I am still
> trying to figure out how Siri keeps deciding I called her on my new mac
> pro....
>
> cheers Steph
>
> PS I am super late paying Wapix this month, doing it now so they will be
> in a good mood by the time you tell them...
> On 2020-03-16 2:25 p.m., Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix via NCSG-EC wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> A short primer for tomorrow, as far as my agenda point is concerned:
>
> Updates which are deemed critical to our data systems cannot be performed
> by Wapix given that we are currently hosted with a different hosting
> provider, Robhost, based in Germany. There are technical reasons for that,
> which can be boiled down to the fact that our hosting provider does not
> want to give the level of access required to Wapix. This is understandable,
> but it comes in the way of doing the updates properly.
>
> I do not know much as to why we came to be hosted by Robhost. In any case,
> it costs us 44 EUR/month for a 12 month period, so over 500 EUR or USD/y.
> Stephanie, I believe you are currently paying for it.
>
> This is probably a matter that should have been discussed this summer in
> Morocco, but to be honest I was not aware that we had a separate hosting
> and who it was. I discovered it along the way.
>
> I would thus suggest that we switch over to Wapix for hosting, in addition
> to management. Given that they already charge us for remote access anyway,
> being hosted by them would not cost us anything more as far as monthly fees
> are concerned, and would save us money during development time as they
> would not need to deal with the remote access part, making their work
> marginally quicker. However I believe it would cost us a few hours in dev
> time.
>
> Also, having things centralized with Wapix is a more sustainable solution
> long term.
>
> If I have your agreement on the principle of this, I will see with Josh
> how much it would cost us as a whole (as I said, probably a few hrs of the
> dev time we have already paid for), and what is the process for terminating
> with Robhost. Once things are set, I would be back to you all with the
> figures for final approval.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
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