[Moodle] Moodle on Netspace

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Interesting Chris .. what do you think of the Ubuntu LAMP server?

I was fascinated to read why a Linux hard disk drive doesnt need to be
fragmented and its technical advantage over a Windows NTFS formatted hard
disk drive. I had suspected as much .. this page explains the details for
lay users like me. :-)

http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2006/08/17/why_doesn_t_linux_need_defragmenting

Regards Roland


On 12/12/06, Chris Ellis <ellis.christopher.l at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> I was using the Netspace Netspace Virtual Classroom moodle for about a
> year.
> It was great to get going with.
>
> But as with the rest of Netspace, quality of service is not really good
> enough - we've had no less than half a dozen ACS/Filter proxy issues in
> the
> last week, and this has been going on for months.
>
> Having invested all my coursework into the NVC moodle my classes were
> stuffed when it was off the air - probably 3 days down time over the year.
> I
> also ended up with a forum posting issue that was never resolved. The NVC
> support process is take a ticket and we'll get back to you over the next
> couple of days. Often time I had to put in a personal call to Mike D'Monte
> to get support action happening in a timely manner.
>
> In frustration, I installed Moodle on the local file server using XAMPP
> under windows and it worked a charm, although only available on the LAN.
>
> Meanwhile I've bought an ACER 530 server, installed Ubuntu LAMP server,
> had
> DE&T allow it as a webserver and will be migrating Moodle to it before the
> end of the year (yikes). The webserver has 2 network connections - one for
> the wide world, and the other for the LAN. There is a simple php config
> for
> Moodle which serves the Moodle locally over the LAN (to avoid IP traffic)
> and still allows web browsing from outside of VicSmart. Must remember to
> get
> VicSmart to add out Moodle to the Edulist for free traffic for the admin
> network.
>
> Under this setup, Moodle will still work regardless of having internet
> access functioning.
>
> Hope this helps. The short answer is - if you don't have the tech
> skills/support at school and Netspace aren't charging for it, give it a go
> while you introduce Moodle culture to your staff and students. The more
> dependent you become on it, the more you will need a more reliable
> service,
> whether local or hosted commercially.
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris Ellis
> ICT Coordinator
> Lorne-Aireys Inlet P-12 College
>
>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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