managing information technology @ ut november 13-14, 2008 web hosting and storage
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Managing Information Technology @ UTNovember 13-14, 2008
Web Hosting and Storage
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Overview• The Campus Web• Campus Web Vocabulary• Web Site Guidelines and Policies• Web Hosting and Storage Options• Departmental and Organizational Options• ITS Enterprise Web Services• Future Directions
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The Campus Web• Large – Millions of pages and hundreds of applications in
utexas.edu domain.• Diverse – Many audiences, media types, functions, publishers• Decentralized – hundreds of campus Web servers• Mission-critical – includes important applications as well as
information resources• Cross-campus – engages ITS but also OPA, campus departments
and organizations, and other developers and publishers
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Campus Web Vocabulary• Web Central – The University’s primary Web server - www.utexas.edu• UT Direct – The University’s portal, with an emphasis on University
business and administration– Registration– Paying Bills– Timesheets
• Webspace – Offers students, faculty, and staff 1 GB of space for Web publishing and file storage
• emergency.utexas.edu – Off-campus Web presence to be used in emergencies
• Blackboard• Webmail
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Guidelines and Policies• Web Guidelines are at http://www.utexas.edu/web/guidelines• Accessibility• Privacy• Security: Information Resources Use and Security Policy• Acceptable Use
– Copyright– Bandwidth
• Branding– Templates– OPA Visual Guidelines: http://www.utexas.edu/visualguidelines
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Individual Web Publishing Policies• ITS Acceptable Use
– No commercial gain– No violation of copyright or other law or policy– Subject to resource limits– Considered ‘free speech’
• Departmental options may be subject to additional policies
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Web Hosting and Storage• Individual Web sites• Departmental Web sites• Instruction• Research Support
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Individual Options• Webspace
– Free for students, faculty and staff– 1 GB
• Individual UNIX-based publishing: UTS• Individual Windows-based publishing:
Austin Disk Services
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Departmental Web Sites• Virtual Host Names• UNIX and Windows environments• SharePoint• Oracle Universal Content Management
System
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Web Resources for Faculty Instruction
• Blackboard• CLIPs• Departmental Options
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Web Technologies• PHP• Python• Java• Cold Fusion• webAgent• Content Management Systems• Streaming Media – Helix• Databases
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Web Central Architecture• Clustered Solaris servers• Shared Network Appliance storage• Apache Web server• PHP 5• Serves adminstrative departments, course Web sites, and student
organization Web sites• Publishing tools range from Dreamweaver and text editors to
publishing systems like Drupal, Expression Engine and WordPress• Other campus servers include IIS, Mac OS X/Apache, Linux
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Enterprise Web Services• Content Management – OUCMS: http://www.utexas.edu/web/cms• Analytics – Urchin: https://www.utexas.edu/web/analytics• Quality and Accessibility Testing – WebXM:
https://www.utexas.edu/web/qa• Security Testing – AppScan https://www.utexas.edu/web/security/• Search – Google and htDig http://www.utexas.edu/learn/search/• Streaming Video – Helix/RealServer
http://www.utexas.edu/web/video/• Blogs – WordPress Mu http://blogs.utexas.edu/• Contracts – ITS can help with Web site development
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Future Directions• The “cloud”• Green IT Services• Virtualization
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Saving Power and Space
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Virtual Servers
www.utexas.edu/its/vserver
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Resources• Web developers – [email protected]• Application developers – [email protected]• Contact emails: