I have some clients' sites on www1, but could happily move them. I can't think of an argument for keeping them there; I'm sure most clients would gladly go to a name.umn.edu domain instead of their current www1.umn.edu/name. (though I'm sure, now that I said this, someone would surprise me…) Kris Kristofer D. Layon Director of Web Design & Online Collaboration 612.624.4545 : [log in to unmask] : http://blog.lib.umn.edu/layo0002/work/ - - - - - - Office of the Senior Vice President for System Academic Administration University of Minnesota Twin Cities http://www.academic.umn.edu/system/ On Jan 26, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Peter Wiringa wrote: > My brief input, following from both Gabe and Andre, is basically a > "me too," too. I've sent some comments off list to Patton about some > of our particular needs. > > The big, big thing we'd like to see: MySQL hosting. We have a RHEL > virtual machine with OIA right now, which will be the replacement > for an ancient server in our closet. Since we could host our > databases on the VM we had to pay for, rather than pay $15/DB more > to continue hosting with JaWS, we elected to move ours. We'd prefer > a centrally managed DB service for this, but it works just fine. To > some extent, we have almost too much control with our VM, and are in > a position where a small staff that has a lot of breadth, but not a > great deal of depth (or real redundancy) in system administration, > would rather go with a standard offering and contract for any > necessary time by real sys admins to do a bit more work. It's not > much, but we worry about operational continuity. A more restricted > VM might meet our needs very well. > > Andre's cPanel note is about a +10 for me. > > A bigger issue for University Relations is having a plan for the > future of the 'the' web hotel (www1.umn.edu). Are any other groups > still hosting content on www1? Architectural and infrastructure > decisions that go back to the early or mid 90s have left the > centralmost web hosting in an interesting state. Look at almost any > other institution out their, higher ed or corporate, and their > equivalent to (www.)umn.edu is their home page, in the realm of > marketing. Because central auth, people search, and other services > reside on www.umn.edu, other traffic is passed over to www1. > Basically, the central marketing space at the University has been co- > opted for technical reasons, and it's a bigger issue we'd like to > see resolved, though it could understandably take years to unwind. > > Again, anyone else on www1? What are you plans? Anyone from OIT able > to share anything on this? > > -- > Peter Wiringa > Electronic Communications > University Relations > University of Minnesota > (612) 625-3252 > [log in to unmask] > > "I gotta hold on to my angst. I preserve it because I need it. It > keeps me sharp, on the edge, where I gotta be." - V. Hanna