The University's Executive Compliance Committee (ECC) has made a policy change that requires all commodity servers to be physically or virtually located in the University Data Center. Such a change helps to address a number of risks that the committee has been monitoring over the years. Note: The policy change has been published , but it will not be made effective until and in effect September 01, 2014.
More details on the policy change can be found at: http://security.utexas.edu/policies/irusp.html#section_5_23_34
Commodity servers are defined as systems providing basic information technology services to university affiliates (e.g., web services, mail services, file services, database services, directory services, collaboration services).
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Database Services (MySQL)
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MySQL Order Form: https://www.utexas.edu/its/mysql/forms/
MySQL Help: https://www.utexas.edu/its/help/mysql
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Austin Disk Services (https://www.utexas.edu/its/storage/)Anchor austindisk austindisk
Features:
- Meets the minimum standards set by ISO for storing Category I Data using IPSec, secure WebDAV, or SFTP to connect. Please see the SLA before storing protected research data on Austin Disk
- Automatically synchronize work you do offline with austin.utexas.edu any time you log on with the Offline Folders feature of Microsoft Windows
- Automatically backs up your files three times per day to ensure your data is secure
- Two week retention period
- Supports end-user recovery of backups with compatible clients (machine must be on the Austin Domain)
- Works best with Windows
Cost:
Effective September 1, 2013, the cost for individual Austin Disk shares will be $2.00 per GB per year, a drop from the previous $2.80 per GB per year. Individuals can purchase disk space online in 1 GB increments, up to 20 GB. Departments can also purchase disk space online, with a minimum allocation of 50 GB, at an annual rate of $140 per 50 GB allotment.
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Customers must manage access client protocols, such as CIFS, NFS, and AFP via a server front-end. It is required that customer servers are located within UDC-C to connect to UT Enterprise Bulk Storage.
Features:
- High bandwidth connectivity within the University Data Centers
- Compatible with other ITS services: UT Virtual (UT-V), CrashPlan server backup
- Highly reliable due to a fault-tolerant hardware architecture
- Scalable storage framework to meet storage growth on campus
Cost:
Each 1 GB costs $0.40 per year. Storage is available for purchase in 512 GB increments, with a starting minimum of 1024GB (1TB) and maximum of 10752GB (10.5TB).
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University Blog Service
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The University Blog Service is available for use by faculty, staff, and students. The service uses the WordPress platform. Blogs can be created by, and are available for individuals, groups, projects, or departments.
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- Write your website in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript
- You can take full advantage of the 25GB of storage available in a UTmail account.
- Limited to current domain name structure
UT Web (replacing Web Central
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- UNIX user accounts and file storage
- File ownership groups for shared content editing
- Automated task execution
- Allows secure file uploading, downloading and storage
- Shared common Web server and resources
- Keep existing URL or create new @ece.utexas.edu
Features
- Flat HTML as well as CGI and PHP scripting
- Perl 5.6.1
- PHP 5.2.5
- TCLSH 8.2.2
- RHEL5 (default) or Solaris
- 24-hour operator coverage with daily backups
- Searchable using the ITS-supported Google Custom Search Engine (CSE)
- Supports connections to MySQL, and Oracle databases
- Access to Urchin Web Analytics and the Accessibility Scanning Tool is available upon request
- Supports secure (https) Web access to content and applications via SSL
- Supports UT EID logon authentication (see Accessing EID Data)
Note: Web Central does not support custom frameworks or other languages such as such as Ruby, Python, and .NET
Cost
Web publishing on Web Central is available to university departments or sponsored groups at no cost.
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- Will be brought online June 2014
- Will offer a Drupal CMS
- Should continue to provide UNIX support, along with PHP
- Continued support for MySQL Improved storage requirements
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
- Apache HTTP server version 2.2
- MySQL version 5.6 (local installations)
- PHP programming language versions 5.3 and 5.4
- Virtualmin Web Panel for self-service site management
- Access to phpMyAdmin and the MySQL command-line client
- 1-click Drupal Installer
- 1-click WordPress Installer
- Self-managed file backups and recovery
- Unix shell access via UT EID
- Access to raw log files
- Access to both Git and SVN version control tools
- CGI Scripting
- UTLogin
- Enterprise MySQL
- Enterprise Oracle
- UT Forge Subversion Repository
- XML Gateway for Mainframe connectivity
- TED & Austin Active Directory LDAP Services
for The University of Texas at Austin that will replace the current Web Central service.
Web publishing on UT Web is available for colleges, schools, and departments that need to create websites that require Unix-based technologies such as PHP or CGI scripting. Colleges, schools, and departments may provide hosting space to their community members. All users must have a current UT affiliation to log in to the service.
The UT Web LAMP solutions stack is suitable for static HTML pages as well as dynamic websites and applications. LAMP is an acronym for the open-source software packages that include: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Read about the UT Web technical specifications.
Specifications
The UT Web LAMP stack uses the open-source software packages:
Technical Features
Campus Connections
Users can connect to campus developer resources outside of UT Web, including:
Cost
UT Web hosting is available to university departments at no cost.
Exception Process
You should consider structuring your exceptions around the following:
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