How the University of Missouri cost-effectively migrated hundreds of websites - WPCampus 2021 Online
Channel: WPCampus: Where WordPress meets higher education
Date: 2021-10-06

This session was sponsored, brought to you by Platform.sh.

In 2015, the University of Missouri's IT department handed its marketing department a monumental task: to move 25% of its 1,600 on-prem websites to the cloud. In concert, the administration mandated that these 400 – 500 unmanaged WordPress, Drupal, and static sites be migrated, standardized, and centrally managed across a decentralized campus. All tall orders.

Like most HigherEd institutions, the University of Missouri doesn’t have a pool of excess funding or resources. So, how could their team efficiently and cost-effectively move the sites to a managed platform where updates and changes could be deployed to all sites quickly, securely, and consistently while minimizing downtime?

Join the University of Missouri and Platform.sh as they discuss the journey to successfully manage hundreds of sites across a decentralized campus without costly DevOps resources. The university will share the challenges they encountered and lessons learned as they made the transition to continuous integration and delivery. And learn about the automation tools that enabled the team to focus on what they do best: delivering solutions that meet the university’s business needs.

You can learn more about this session on the WPCampus 2021 Online website: https://2021.wpcampus.org/schedule/how-the-university-of-missouri-cost-effectively-migrated-hundreds-of-websites

Presenters:
Paul Gilzow
John Boyer
Jessica Orozco

What is WPCampus?
WPCampus 2021 Online was the ninth conference for the WPCampus community, a gathering of web professionals, educators and people dedicated to the confluence of WordPress in higher education. The event took place online on September 21-22, 2021. Learn more about the event at https://2021.wpcampus.org.