Standard Web Hosting Service

 

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) offers fee-based services for all university departments to house content. We also offer hosting for Web applications for use internally for the university and externally for public consumption.    Below is a list of services that are offered and the associated fee for those services

 

 

Benefits to Departments include:

 

Benefits to Departments:

 

·       Eliminates the need for departments to maintain expensive server infrastructures

·       Provides resources and capabilities that some departments may not be able to individually afford.

·       Eliminates the need for server-related training for departmental IT staff, allowing units to focus professional development resources in other areas.

·       Maintains campus data in a secure and monitored facility.

·       Responds to Campus sustainability efforts by decreasing the redundancy of equipment on campus and more efficiently using resources.  

Technological Benefits of the File Server System:

• Decreases the number of potential points of failure.
• Implements industry best practices.
• Files stored on the server are backed up daily.
• Remote access to content
• Environment monitored 24x7/365

Service Description:

 

The purpose of Basic Web Hosting is to provide the university with an alternative to outsourcing web sites.   For the basic price of $450.00 a year you will receive, a www.XXX.umd.edu domain (XXX will be the name you choose.)  Web hosting will provide 1 gigabyte of disk storage and provide the functionality to run PHP and/or Cold Fusion applications.  Access to your file space will be through WebDAV.  The university provided the tools to access this storage free of charge.   All files are backed up and available for to be restored for up to two weeks.   All logs are automated for log analysis and usage reports on a nightly basis.   All systems are monitored 24 hours a day 7 days a week.     Below is a chart listing what tasks can be performed by departmental administrators and what tasks must be performed by OIT administrators.

 

 

 

 

Service Pricing:

 

Additional services:

Users can request additional services at a cost.  Database access is available to both an Oracle and a MS SQL database environment.   In the future OIT will offer MY SQL hosting services.    Additional disk space can be purchased if needed as well as commercial certificates for SSL enabling your web site for secure transactions.

Service Name	Cost
Basic Service non-replicated (1gb space)	$450
Oracle or My SQL usage fee non-replicated(setup + 20mb space)	$50
Database disk space non-replicated(x/20mb)	$25
Disk space non-replicated 1gb	$50
Streaming media space 1gb	$50

 

In addition, Web Hosting offers a fee for service for commercial SSL certificates and the deployment of more than one domain name pointed to your website (Point and Park).  We also offer long term file restoration for a fee. Please see http://webhosting.umd.edu/ for additional details.

 

One Time Charges	Cost
Commercial SSL certificate;  1 year duration	$200
Commercial SSL certificate; 3 year duration	$450
Point and Park Service	$50
Set up of a live web stream feed	$50
File restore older than 24 hours non-replicated per-day	$50
Database restore per-day/per-instance	$75

 

Charges for the file sharing service consist of storage, backup, and an annual administrative\service fee.

 

File Storage and Backup:

 

The departments will be charged monthly for storage and backup costs contact the OIT Enterprise Storage and Backup team.

Other services are also available and are billed at our standard hourly rate of $150. If you are interested in learning more about additional service offering, if you would like to schedule an appointment, or if you have any questions about our rate structure, please send email to webhosting@umd.edu.