Archive for January 28th, 2008

Installed Demo Copy of Moodle

Monday, January 28th, 2008

For client installed copy of demo Moodle. Later, a copy should probably run on a laptop localhost because internet access might be limited at client. Therefore, install XAMPP for Windows on XP laptop. Another option WAMP. Maybe in this case the best option is WAMP because it has the least options though everyhting you need. XAMPP also includes Perl and an ...

Moodle on Windows

Monday, January 28th, 2008

There are constantly ongoing discussions on the Moodle forums about getting Moodle performing on a MS setup. Summarising, you should LAMP, if somehow possible. However, with Moodle getting more popular among common users, not used to Linux AND among companies, dictating specific hosting environment requirements, more and more requests are ...

Moodle performance

Monday, January 28th, 2008

On the moodle forums there was a discussion about how to get Moodle performing on a LB setup. Disks on of the FS should then be SCSI or SAS. SAS is Serial Attached SCSI. SAS is a replacement for parallel SCSI / SATA giving advantages: see SAS wikipedia site. It is backwards compatible with SATA.