CNS Hosting Services offered by Open Systems
Service offering overview
The Open Systems Group provides CNS Hosting Services to members of the University of Florida community. We have a number of economically priced offerings to help meet your UF project needs. These offerings fall into several general categories:
- Web Site and Application Hosting
- Database Hosting
- File Server Hosting
- Virtual Machine Hosting
- Managed Server Hosting
Web Site and Application Hosting offerings provide customers with the resources necessary to host your project's website. You have the option of an open-source environment with Apache on Linux, or Microsoft technologies with IIS on Windows. These services have standard pricing for a set offering of features, which includes 20 gigabytes of storage per site. Please see the details on the following pages.
Database Hosting offerings currently include the option between the open source MySQL DBMS, or the Microsoft SQL Enterprise DBMS. Both offerings include an initial 20 gigabytes of disk space for your database, with additional storage available in 20 gigabytes increments. Both environments are supported with nightly backups to help protect your data. Further data protection is provided by binary log replication in MySQL and highly-available replication in MS SQL. For standard pricing please see the tables on the following pages.
File Server Hosting allows customers to outsource the mundane day-to-day task of managing their own file-server. CNS manages our highly available file services and delegates Administrative control over your share volumes, so that your department is in full control. File Server hosting is a high performance yet economical solution based on lower cost storage, but still retains the performance that you would expect from an enterprise service. File Server hosting also includes NSAM based backups for DR purposes. If customers wish they may customize their NSAM backup policies beyond the basic DR service at normal NSAM rates.
Virtual Machine Hosting allows allows your UF organization to lease virtual machine resources from within our existing infrastructure to run your own dedicated system images. This will allow your project to succeed without the worry of purchasing and maintaining hardware resources. Your virtual server will live in our virtualized server environment that includes SAN-backed failover within our hardware cluster to prevent downtime due to hardware failure or maintenance. Additional higher cost high performance storage is available as needed. Please see the tables further down the page.
Managed Server Hosting is an offering where CNS will manage all aspects of a server including the hardware, network, devices, operating system software and application infrastructure components. This will provide a stable operating environment for your applications. Managed server hosting can be combined with our "Virtualized Server Hosting" offering. By using our managed server hosting service your IT organization only needs to manage your applications. Your people will be freed from mundane infrastructure issues and can focus on understanding and supporting your business processes more effectively. We believe this arrangement is more responsive than fully outsourced solutions because you remain in full control of your application. Because the nature of this service is highly tailored to your needs, pricing is determined on a case-by-case basis and a consultation must occur to before we can provide a price quote. If you are interested in this offering please contact us to arrange a meeting.
Web Site/Application Hosting - standard pricing and features
| Server type |
Price/month | Features |
| Apache on Linux web hosting | $10 |
|
| IIS on Windows web hosting | $15 |
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* Shibboleth authentication/authorization is available for new sites in this environment after proper authorization to Shibboleth has been granted by the Identity Management Team. For instructions on how to gain access please visit: http://www.it.ufl.edu/identity/Shibboleth/Access.asp
Shibboleth can be made available for existing sites; however, reconfiguration of the site is likely required.
File Server Hosting
| Allocation Type | Price/month | Included resources |
File Services |
$65 |
|
Database Hosting - standard pricing and features
| Database Type | Price/month | Features |
MySQL database |
$20 |
|
MS SQL Enterprise database |
$100 |
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Virtual Machine Hosting - standard unit pricing
| Allocation type | Price/month | Included resources |
| Standard Virtual Machine |
$60 |
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| Additional Disk | $125 |
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More information or non-standard requests
If you have additional questions or need pricing information for non-standard hosting arrangements pleasearrangements please send email to open-systems-l@lists.ufl.edu