Managing Information Technology @ UT
November 13-14, 2008
Web Hosting and Storage
Managing Information Technology @ UT
Overview
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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PHP
Python
Java
Cold Fusion
webAgent
Content Management Systems
Streaming Media – Helix
Databases
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Web Central Architecture
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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 – webpub@utlists.utexas.edu
• Application developers – txedge@lists.cc.utexas.edu
• Contact emails:
– www@www.utexas.edu
– usability@www.utexas.edu
– utd-stewards@lists.cc.utexas.edu