Providing faster, scalable, and more secure hosting solutions for Drupal websites
Stanford Sites, UIT’s primary Drupal cloud service, currently hosts 2,000+ sites and hosts only Drupal 7. To continue receiving security updates and community support, the Drupal service must be advanced to the latest version by 2021. Stanford Web Services (SWS) will build and implement Drupal 8 on Stanford Sites, with rollout planned for February 2020.
D8 Adoption & Website Rebuild Guide: From assessing your current site to rebuilding and launching your new D8 site, this guide gives you the tips and tools you'll need for a successful transition.
Stanford Sites D8 user guide: Once you start using D8, refer to this guide to learn about the new platform, how to build content, launch your website, and more.
Visit the UIT blog to get an inside look from the Stanford Web Services team as they build and release Drupal 8 features on Stanford Sites.
Stanford’s vast web presence is maintained by many distributed groups across campus and includes a wide variety of applications and hosting platforms, including the legacy AFS platform. AFS is minimally supported and hosts a number of websites created by individuals and other organizations in unsupported, outdated and vulnerable versions of web tools.
If you have a website on web.stanford.edu (AFS) that is no longer needed, you can submit a request with your website information.
The best way to start preparing is to spend time reviewing and evaluating the content on your webpages to determine what you want to retain, revise, and remove. Consider the structure of your website (information architecture) and think about ways to improve the organization of pages, and prepare a project timeline, plan and budget. These tips and templates to help you get started are on our Drupal 8 Adoption and Rebuild Guide.
These Drupal projects are two of the eight collective efforts to modernize Stanford's web content management systems.