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If an ArchivesSpace hosting provider, as part of their service, can take care of exporting and serving the EADs, we can avoid doing B ) and C ) altogether. We should keep this in mind as we shop.
Because the ArchivesSpace server is the only one left that we use Ansible for, each of these steps has the side-effect of cutting out big chunks of our Ansible code. For instance, C) should allow us to get rid of all our Apache-related code in Ansible.
A ), B ) and C ) above could be treated as independent projects and be done in any order.
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