Massive project proposal - need basic logistics help

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DeftRiposte

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Hello everyone, my name's Eric and I'm a member of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honors society for the two year college. I'm a regional officer, and to improve communication I've come up with a plan: to build a web-based service on the organization's international website to create and host template-style webpages for each chapter. The pages would contain a forum in addition to informational pages with limited images but extensive text, a blogging area, a calendar, and an RSS feed as major features. There are 1400 chapters, and the prospective number of websites is equal to that.

Here is my question:

How much, should such a system be build, would it cost to host over 1000 websites like this? What would be the most pragmatic route to take in hosting them? I guess what I'm essentially asking, is how much bandwidth this would use up.

I'm not extremely literate with these things, so please be kind with obscure vocabulary!

Thank any and all of you for your help in this.

-Eric Chisler
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Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Secretary, Nevada/California Region
PR Coordinator, Beta Theta Kappa Chapter
 
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Now are the chapters different business because you could have all those websites under sub-domains to save you money. As for cost and how much bandwidth that would depend of how much resources your chapters will be using. For example how many visitors each website gets a day, are the website static html web pages or interactive websites? We need more information to help you out.
 
If I understand, essentially you're talking about 1400 CMS/Blog & forum's. I'm assuming you'd like them all managed through 1 system? It would be possible to hire a developer to create 1 main application to use existing open source software(blog/cms/forum) created and managed over all 1400 sites. As a developer, and considering the scale of this project, you may be looking anywhere from $2-3k+ for a quality system.

The subdomain idea already mentioned isn't a bad option, but as far as hosting goes it'll be completely dependent on the amount of traffic. You may be able to pull it off with 1 dedicated server and a reasonable amount of resources, or it mite require multiple servers as traffic increases.

My best suggestion is to consult/contract someone to take care of it all for you. 1 person/company to develop the site(s), set everything up, and manages the server(s) would be your best bet in my opinion.

Best of luck.
 
DeftRiposte said:
Hello everyone, my name's Eric and I'm a member of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honors society for the two year college. I'm a regional officer, and to improve communication I've come up with a plan: to build a web-based service on the organization's international website to create and host template-style webpages for each chapter. The pages would contain a forum in addition to informational pages with limited images but extensive text, a blogging area, a calendar, and an RSS feed as major features. There are 1400 chapters, and the prospective number of websites is equal to that.

Here is my question:

How much, should such a system be build, would it cost to host over 1000 websites like this? What would be the most pragmatic route to take in hosting them? I guess what I'm essentially asking, is how much bandwidth this would use up.
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What a great concept. As mentioned earlier, bandwidth depends on a number of variables. We're talking 1400 forums, blogs, calendars and RSS feeds. How many users are there in each chapter? What limits do you envision on images?
 
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