Hosting

ITECS provides hosted services for web sites developed by College of Engineering faculty, staff and students. ITECS hosts college sites free of charge, but only under the hosted domains (virtual hosts, or vhosts) it supports. ITECS hosts web sites for:

• college and departments (including centers, institutes, labs, and other college units)
• administrative units 
• student organizations
• individuals (faculty, staff, students)
• .org sites

Web space for courses (Wolfware or Blackboard Vista) is a university service and not provided by the college.

"Virtual hosting" is the method ITECS uses to host multiple domain names on the same web server. These vhosts resolve to the same IP address but pull content from individual web lockers in AFS that are mapped to their domain names. ITECS runs multiple web servers hosting multiple vhosts, but vhosting is not an unlimited service. Like any resource-sharing device, web servers must be monitored, balanced, and upgraded to meet the demands that the vhosts place on them.