Website Hosting Services

The vendor is required to provide that website hosting services for a partner to host Drupal version 10-11+ websites that will serve the public websites for our institution.
- The primary goals of these websites are the recruitment and retention of students and providing information to faculty and staff
- Project objectives are:
• Php 8.2+ fpm
• Support for Drupal version 10-11+
• Composer integration
• Git integration
• Realtime log viewing
• Performance monitoring and reporting
• Automated database backups + restoration
• Support for development, staging, and production environments workflow
• Support for unlimited self-service cloud dev environment creation with git branching workflow
• New website provisioning on demand
• Permissions-based user access setup
• Filesystem is case-sensitive
• Sftp access for on-server development
• SSH connection support
• Support for self-service domain and SSL certificate provisioning
• Support for simplesamlphp SSO authentication on Drupal sites
• 24/7 support with 1 hour or less response and live chat
• Online documentation library
• 99.95% or greater uptime
• Real time infrastructure issue notifications
• Varnish and object caching with ability to clear on demand
• Automated Drupal core and module updates with custom deployment settings and visual regression testing
• Median time to first byte (TTFB) under 500ms in Americas and Europe
- Primary website
• ability to handle 5 million visits // 1.5 million unique visitors // 20+ million pageviews/year
• 10gb+ database storage
• 50gb+ file system storage
- Secondary website:
• Ability to handle 480 thousand visits // 1.2 million pageviews/year
• 1gb+ database storage
• 1gb+ file system storage
- Tertiary website:
• Ability to handle 42 thousand visits // 12 million pageviews/year
• 1gb+ database storage
• 5gb+ file system storage
- The mandatory technical specifications are requirements encompass areas such as software installation, load balancing, database management, operating system requirements, system integrations, and more.
- Operating system
• The system must run in a Linux environment.
• Specify the mail protocols supported by the system.
• The CPU speed and memory capacity of your servers. - Database
• Content management system (CMS) must be certified and supported on current stable releases of such databases such as MySQL with automated version updates that are compatible with the currently installed Drupal version.
• List all database connection types that your solution supports.
• List your database server character-set and collation choices.
• Web application server
• The CMS web and application server must be certified and supported on Apache or Nginx with automated version updates that are compatible with the currently installed Drupal version.
• Php version must support currently installed Drupal version 10-11+, with option to manually switch to php version 8.2+ on demand.
• Specify the releases supported by your solution.
• Specify any additional modules that are required in order for the system to function.
• Business driver: use existing layer 4 load balancer systems to provide scalable, highly available services.
- Testing, staging and development
• Business driver: follow industry best practices for management of production services.
• The system must be supported and installed in multiple instances
• The system supports off-line data backup and archived environments.
• The system backup process and any specific utilities required.
• The system should be capable of supporting mirrored sites for disaster recovery purposes.
• Describe where backup data is stored, and how fast it can be restored in the event of a total failure of the database and filesystem server.
• The security access restrictions to data backup storage locations, devices and files.
- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: March 28, 2025