Web Content to Cloud Hosting Projects


The Office of Information Technology (OIT) is advancing the University's disaster recovery footing of its web presence by moving content hosted on-premises to a vendor-managed cloud option.  This initiative will be a coordinated effort between OIT, Distributed IT Providers, and hundreds of web content owners.

The working groups will be focused on three sub-projects targeting the content served by:

  1. the traditional www.auburn.edu space,
  2. the WordPress environment (wp.auburn.edu), and
  3. the Microsoft IIS environment.

Feel free to comment below (login required) or send messages to webadmn@auburn.edu.  Check back to this page (shortcut: aub.ie/c2c) for updates.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why make this move?

  • Enhance disaster recovery capabilities for ongoing business continuity
  • Increase security features
  • Empower content owners with greater control
  • Allow refocus of technical specialists to other projects and initiatives
  • Provide platforms to support more modern technology, functionality, and development

When is this happening?

This project is just getting off the ground.  This is the order of events for each sub-project:

  1. Audit and assess current content (ongoing)
  2. Gather requirement for new hosted environment (ongoing)
  3. Vendor selection (TBD)
  4. Implementation and migration (TBD)
  5. Ongoing support and migration of distributed-hosted content (TBD)

 I'm a web content owner, how can I help?

  • Clean out old and no longer needed files and folders
  • Communicate with us your experiences, requests, etc.
  • Test out the new environments when they become available

Explain these "sub-projects"

Since the content is already segmented on three different environments, moving the content on each of these will be a separate project.  First efforts will be focused on the WordPress environment.  Second and third are to be determined.

WordPress Project

Supporting Documents

Timeline


  • August 2, 2019 - Set up test environment with PHP 7.3; cloned over instances
  • Sept. 6, 2010 - Communicate need for testing
  • Oct. 6, 2019 - Upgrade production with PHP 7.3
  • Nov. 12, 2019 - Develop requirements for new environment
  • Jan. 13, 2020 - Determine support structure and request process
  • Jan. 17, 2020 - RFP development started
  • April - Engage vendors for interest
  • April 15, 2020 - Bid closed
  • May 5 - Aug. 13, 2020 - Vendor Evaluation & Reference Calls
    • May - On-campus demo from interested vendors
    • June - July - Test vendor-hosted environment
    • Scored Vendors
  • Aug. 13 - Dec. 1, 2020 - Procurement Processes and Scorecard Approval
  • Dec. 3, 2020 - Kick Off with CampusPress
  • Dec. 3 - 12, 2020 - Campus Press evaluates AU sites
  • Jan. 12, 2021 - Present
    • CampusPress and AU working to
      • evaluate existing sites
      • build project plan
      • share files/plans for each site to be migrated
  • TBD - CampusPress to build test sites
  • TBD - AU to test sites
  • TBD - Migrate content, DNS routing, etc.

WWW Project

Project currently in the Audit and Assessment phase.

If you are a content owner in this environment, please review your files/folders and remove items no longer needed.

IIS Project

Project currently in the Audit and Assessment phase.

If you are a content owner in this environment, please review your files/folders and remove items no longer needed.