1. Free Moodle-installed Servers
and
English Support
Joe’s Cloud Computing Inc.
Shion Suzuki and Osamu Ikehara
Friday, March 2nd 2013
2. About Us: Joe’s Cloud Computing
HQ: Umeda in Osaka
(Ginza and Aoyama in Tokyo)
President: Teiko Suzuki
Established: July 2002
Renewed as Joe’s Cloud
Computing
since July 2012
• Cloud Hosting
• SSL Certs
• Virtual Offices
4. Shion Suzuki
Year/Month What I was doing
2007 Fall – 2009 Summer Junior High in UK
2009 Fall– 2012 Summer High School in NY, USA
2012 Summer–2013 Spring Working with Joe’s
2013 Spring- College in Hiyoshi, Yokohama
Hobby
Sports, Cooking, Dog
How did I know Moodle? Osamu Ikehara
Joe’s training for new staffs (Engineer) will
appears for demo
and Q-A
5. For what Joe’s uses Moodle?
• In-House Training (SSL certs, Shared/Dedicated Servers)
• The LMS Servers:
a hosting service dedicated for Moodle (unique in Japan)
Free 1-year server account (Beginners’ Plan)
7. Moodle
• HQ is in Perth in Australia (Moodle.org)
• Learning via Internet (home study, self-learning)
• CMS working on Php+MySQL
• Learning materials are more important than site designs
• In Japan, Moodle is intensively promoted by MAJ,
professors, developers, etc. and is getting popular.
Moodle 2.4 is the latest.
8. What server should be used for Moodle?
• Servers in your university (if you’re Professor):
the center, your dept, your labo
• Servers in your office (IP address is required)
• Servers in your home (IP address is required)
• Hosting and Cloud:
either with or without Linux knowledge
9. Servers in University (1)
(if provided by the center in a top-down manner)
You are lucky. You do not have to either
prepare or manage servers
Cost-effective because no
expensive licence fees for
any e-learning software
Hakodate-Mirai, Mie U.
10. Servers in University (2)
Dilemma in your Labo and Dept.
• What if students’ personal info, scores are leaked?
• The LAMP(Linux apache, mysql, php) environment
should be updated in a real time manner.
• Support may be increasing
People What they do
Technical In order to avoid the risks, they are negative
Staff about your request.
Your Students They do not work without rewards or dinner
Yourself You cannot manage your servers (update the
LAMP) even if you can manage Moodle.
11. In-House and Home Servers
• IT professionals (group)
• Managing internet accessible servers (IP address should be
obtained)
Expense
Power for keeping servers on
Registering and maintaining
IP addresses
Hiring Infra Engineers
If servers in your office (home) can be set up and
managed, so the Moodle environment can be.
12. Hosting and Cloud
(Server and Site managements)
Access status management Servers
Root access Server Cloud
(including and Dedicated (self-management)
User access) Site
User access Site Dedicated (full-management)
Shared servers
Better to concentrate on Moodle management
rather than on both server and Moodle
In Cloud and VPS, templates help your server
management only for initialization
13. Cloud: cost and management is hard
for Enterprise rather than each Faculty
If you successfully installed it via a template,
Linux knowledge is required for setting virtual
host, DNS, and many others.
Support at AWS is not a school. They only help
you assuming you have necessary knowledge
Moodle Cloud cost
AWS subscription $5/m
w/o depending how many servers
AWS servers $0.02/h
Standard Micro (1 server)
Moodle Cloud software licence $0.02/h
14. Hosting
Shared or (full-managed) Dedicated Servers
Shared Servers: Take it easy
Minimum server knowledge is required
1,000-2,000 JPY for server plus Moodle
The provider manages server and you manage Moodle.
Moodle has been popular among
cPanel Hosting users
Fantastico users allowing one touch Moodle install
17. Set-up Moodle by filling minimum info
(no MySQL setting is required)
18. Plan Price URL
Beginner’s You can use Moodle immediately http://subdomain.lms.ac
Plan (Free for 1-year)
Standard You can use Moodle easily http://domain
Plan (but also for other purposes)
18,900 JPY/y
Support as a supporting member of Japan Moodle Association
Talk with Joe’s engineers during 8-22 for weekdays and 9-18 for weekends
The latest Moodle is available
You may ask Moodle
You can meet Joe’s staff face-to-face, say Ginza/Aoyama/Umeda, Moodle
Moot and OpenSource Conference
19. Get Moodle 2.4 Free Account now!
• Free for 1-year
• Can be used for Moodle
• http://subdomain.lms.ac
(if the subdomain is vacant, the account will be issued soon)
• You can decide whether moving to the paid plan after 1-year
(The beginners’ plan is used for Moodle.)
• Non-profit campaign for OpenSource and Moodle than profit
Get the free plan now either http://lms.ac or booth.
(The account can be used for Moodle Moot workshop etc.)
20. • Support OSS Joe’s has been using as services
• Support young OSS communities
Allowing them to use the conference
Sponsorship/donations room at Ginza and Umeda for OSS events
Events when
Moodle Moot 2012 Feb.
2013 March.
NetCommons 2011 August.
User Conference 2012 August.
OpenSource 11 events since
Conference 2011 July
21. Joe’s Backup feature
IT service providers would be taking backup of customers’ data
(But, they do not give you your data when you lose it)
They do for their own purposes: disk crash, human error
Joe’ｓ Backup feature
Periodically forwarding backup data to specified servers such as university.
(The server to forwading the backup should be prepared)
23. English Support
Support How to reach it
Tickets/Chat The same URL but they respond you in
English if you ask in English
https://support.joeswebhosting.net
Phone Phone # for English-only
03-4530-9572 for 24/7
Face-to-Face English Speakers in Ginza and Umeda
24. The LMS server
(will be open may 15, 2013)
For Worldwide Moodle users
1-year free account (Beginners’ Plan)
$15/m (Standard Plan)
Data center in Silicon Valley
24/7 Tech Phone Support
25. Summary for Part-I (30mins)
• Use Moodle easily based on shared hosting services
• Get a free Moodle 2.4 account now !
Feel free to visit our booth
Just ask us either in English or Japanese
Check whether your 個人研究費 is left for
Moodle Standard Plan (18,900 JPY/y).
We will issue your account and then send
an invoice to your school.
Part-II: rather technical (Osamu Ikehara, 15 mins)
• Moodle 2.4
• Install Moodle in general LAMP environments.
• Manage Moodle in Joe’s VPS (625 JPY/m)
