Website Sustainability

A list of free web hosting advice postings including guidance on how to use some of them.:  Dropbox  (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/alternative-hosting-approach-1-dropbox.html )  Google Sites (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/google-sites-for-sustainability-week-3.html  ) Hosting options: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/hosting-how-to-get-it-out-there-for.html Free tools: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-best-free-tools-for-website.html Amazon S3 (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/thoughts-about-using-amazon-s3.html ) Google Drive see  http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/hosting-on-google-drive-case-study.html

Previously I looked at using other tools    to host sites sustainably (or even free)  such as:  Dropbox  (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/alternative-hosting-approach-1-dropbox.html )  Google Sites (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/google-sites-for-sustainability-week-3.html  ) Hosting options: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/hosting-how-to-get-it-out-there-for.html Free tools: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-best-free-tools-for-website.html Amazon S3 (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/thoughts-about-using-amazon-s3.html ) In this post I look at a real web site being moved to being hosted on google Drive as a case study of moving sites that need preserving on to Google Drive as a hosting option. 1. First step is to capture the static HTML files. We need to copy all the files we want, this has been discussed previous see ...

Another sustainable web hosting option: Host a Website on Google Drive - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education : "Now, maybe I just hadn’t had enough coffee when I was working on implementing “site publishing,” but it seems to me that the instructions provided by Google are not as helpful as they could be. It’s actually pretty easy, so I put together what may be an excessively detailed, step-by-step guide for under-caffeinated people like me. (This guide assumes you already have some HTML content you’d like to publish. And, as always, be mindful of the stability and security–or lack thereof–in the cloud. )" 'via Blog this' For a  worked practical example of this approach for a live website go to:  http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/hosting-on-google-drive-case-study.html Related sites Article on Web Sustainability -  http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/article-on-web-siustainability.html Hosting – How to get it ou...

A new article has been published in  Ariadne  on the work done at the University of Northampton on web sustainability. Turner S (2012) . "Case Studies in Web Sustainability".  November 2012 ,  Ariadne  Issue 70  http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue70/turner   ISSN: 1361-3200 At the moment organisations often make significant investments in producing Web-based material, often funded through public money, for example from JISC. But what happens when some of those organisations are closed or there  is no longer any money or resources to host the site? We are seeing cuts in funding or changes in governmental policy, which is resulting in the closure of some of these organisations. What happens to those Web resources when the organisations are no longer in existence? Public money has often been used to develop these resources - from that perspective it would be a shame to lose them. Moreover, the resources might be needed or someone may ...

Just a quick bit, but a Alexandra (can find more at Alex's reflections ) talks about her time as a student and includes her work on the JISC funded  Web Sustainability project as one of the things that helped her career. This work has been supported by funding from JISC. The site can be viewed at https://sites.google.com/site/emknorg/ or http://www.web-sustainablity.net/emkn/ Survey about this material can be found at: http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=67775a0a-336f-45a5-a222-2f1a6615752c please feel free to fill it in or http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=cec22f0a-e467-4c15-a319-74d96bb8ed9d

Ahsan Anderson has being working with Scott Turner from the University of Northampton on issues around Web Sustainability using a website designed to promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) outreach activities as the vehicle. The work is being funded through a  Nuffield Science Bursary .  The project has been in three parts: Investigating possible tools and approaches for web sustainability; Developing a sustainable website to specification. Investigating possible tools . Details of this are available through these blog posts Best free tools for website sustainability -  http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-best-free-tools-for-website.html How to get it out there for pennies -  http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/hosting-how-to-get-it-out-there-for.html STEM site The site was the first we developed using the principles of web sustainability. Developed and hosted using  Weebly  beca...

Should all the web resources produced during a publicly funded project be required to store them sustainably? By sustainably I mean that: Hosting option should keep the resource on-line after the money for the project or organisation is no longer available; Ownership the resources can be transferred easily; Content should be relatively easily transferred either to other sites or archived in an accessible way. I think the answer is yes and possibly it should be part of the funding criteria. We are talking about using a scarce resource public money, to get the best value for that money if a resource has been developed using that money it should be available for those who paid for it. If a resource was worth investing in, why wouldn't it be worth something later. The nature of the resource may change with time, possible going from a resource about current activity to be a resource of historic interest. A JISC funded project " Sustaining "At Risk" On...