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E-learning Deployment – Considerations and Tools

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The benefit of this approach is that you don’t need to be concerned with installing, updating and managing servers and software. files may be stored out of server in flexible storage services like Amazon S3 and there would be multiple web and db servers deployed, alongside CDNs and load balancers). Hosted LMS.

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When Does Your Training Need To Go On A Private Cloud?

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We have gone from big-as-a-house mainframes with slow-as-molasses magnetic tape storage to pizza-box sized servers with crazy fast SSDs, in the span of four decades. The next evolution — which is already here — does not concern servers smaller than pizza boxes, but rather no boxes at all.

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E-learning course development: How to balance between size, cost and time? Pt. 1

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hosting all of them on the same server if your student count is low enough to permit it), whereas others have to be paid in full for any additional course you create (e.g. . – support desk costs. – internet service provider (ISP) costs. – backup costs. Some of these costs can be shared among several courses (e.g

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7 Overlooked Benefits Of A Self-Hosted LMS

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Instead of relying on cloud-based servers, locally installed LMS solutions are hosted right on your company’s server. A self-hosted LMS gives you the power to choose how much data you can store and where you store it, instead of adhering to cloud-based CAPs and their remote servers. Is it really worth the upfront costs?

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Cloud: the good, the bad and the better

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The Cloud is great because it frees you from having to deploy and manage your own application servers. You also get a free specialized IT team to perform backups of your data and monitoring of the servers. For starters, performance can suffer, or at least it’s not as good as having a server on your own.

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Low maintanance – taking care of your eFrontPro installation

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The Information panel shows you very useful diagnostic information about your OS, web server and eFrontPro installation. The first displays general system information (OS name, web server and database version info, etc) as well as your installed PHP extensions and the filesystem permissions. Information.

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Setting up Xapian on Centos

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In the following we assume that an eFront instance is already up and running on the server. Similar steps can be taken for other Linux flavors. Unfortunately windows are not supported for the time being. In addition, all commands should be run with root privileges. add the xapian-related rpm key: rpm -ivh [link]. Update yum: yum update.