Comments on: This is Reality, checking in

By: Alex Klein

Alex Klein — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:27:08 +0000

Just want to point out that while we do have potential access to a nice amount of money, we are most certainly not dependent on direct support from Duke University and its administration.

The Duke Chronicle is independently owned and operated — it’s its own company. Any money we spend comes from advertising profits.

Also, We do realize we are in a much different economic situation from most college newspapers right now. We are lucky enough to be situated in an area that benefits from many students (Duke, UNC, Durham Technical, NC State, NCCU) and spends lots of money on ads.

That higher amount of money, and the fact that we’re on the high end of traffic in terms of college newspapers’ websites, means that we can, and have to, be more selective when we consider hosting-related services.

We’re still big fans of CoPress and its hosting solutions and we’re still heavily considering partnering.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:32:29 +0000

Why not use Amazon S3 and EC2 and perhaps consider Windows Azure when it comes out so that you’re not limited by the power of one server? Have you run a cost analysis to see what the price of using a hosted service to run CoPress would be compared to a single server?

By: Collaborative knowledge | Jackie Alexander.info

Collaborative knowledge | Jackie Alexander.info — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:10:30 +0000

[...] hosting plan is drawing plenty of eyeballs (and a few eyebrows) at the moment. CICM (@CICM) and Ryan Sholin (@ryansholin) are among a few people I follow on [...]

By: Joey Baker

Joey Baker — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:00:59 +0000

For further reading, a rather intense debate has broken out on the Google Group again!

By: Benjamin Garber

Benjamin Garber — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:31:32 +0000

While Dean Chen’s criticism of CoPress Wordpress hosting may have merit, there are a couple things we should consider.

First, Wordpress plugins like Super Cache can significantly reduce the load placed on the server by serving static html pages.

Second, and most important, is that not every college newspaper has $100,000 budget and the full support of school administration. It’s a bit like complaining about your Ferrari’s quarter-mile time to a bunch of people who would be happy with, AND only need, a Civic.

I’m pretty sure Honda isn’t in danger of failing.

By: CoPress unveils Web site hosting plan

CoPress unveils Web site hosting plan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:09:11 +0000

[...] The plan is not without critics. The lead developer of Duke University’s Chronicle wrote an e-mail expressing concern about shared hosting space. CoPress responds here. [...]

By: Links for 2009-1-2 « College Media Matters

Links for 2009-1-2 « College Media Matters — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:13:22 +0000

[...] 1, 2009 by Dan Reimold “This is Reality, checking in”: CoPress is being refreshingly transparent about the current limits to its college media CMS [...]

By: Aught 9 | byJoeyBaker

Aught 9 | byJoeyBaker — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:31:54 +0000

[...] out my most recent blog post at CoPress. It’s a direct response to our first public criticism that took me too many hours on New [...]