Web Hosting at UC Berkeley

News

Socrates and Arachne web services will be retired 12/19/2009. With a few exceptions on Arachne, the web services on Socrates and Arachne will be retired and socrates.berkeley.edu will be rename oldsocrates.berkeley.edu to allow access to move files off Socrates until 1/31/2009. (12/12/2008)
WebFiles to be discontinued. IST will discontinue the Cal WebFiles service on June 27, 2008. Recommended alternatives include bSpace, CalShare, and Open Computing Facility (OCF). (4/16/2008)
http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Fall2008/1233.html
Socrates and Arachne services to be retired. IST is beginning the effort to retire the Socrates and Arachne services and to move clients to new services that are appropriate for their technical needs. IST will follow up with more detailed communications throughout the project life cycle. For general questions about this project, contact cosar@lists.berkeley.edu. (2/15/2008)
http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/serverabatement.html
Rate changes for CalShare and Enterprise Windows Web Farm services (1/17/2008)
http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Spring2008/1178.html
Proposed systemwide Policy on Accessibility in the Electronic Environment (10/1/2007)
http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Fall2007/1105.html
End of support for PHP 4 (9/5/2007)
http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Fall2007/1119.html
The evolution of web hosting (8/16/2007)
http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Fall2007/1078.html

Services

The following services are provided by UC Berkeley Information Services and Techology unless otherwise noted. For a comparision of IST web hosting services see:

http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/webhosting.html

Prices on this page are subject to change without notice. Other fees may apply depending on work requested. For current and unlisted IST prices see the IST Infrastruccture Services Catalog:

http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/infrastructure.html

and IST recharge rates:

http://controller.berkeley.edu/recharge/CurrentRates/ist.htm

Special Web Hosting & File Sharing

CalWeb-in-a-Box (pilot service)

        for faculty and departments
        http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/webhostingpilot.html
        $100 per month, some conditional fees

bSpace (provided by ETS)

        for instruction and collaboration
        not for public website hosting, access restricted to members (CalNetID or userid/password access)
        CalNetID required to setup sites
        UC Berkeley's implementation of Sakai
        https://bspace.berkeley.edu/
        http://ets.berkeley.edu/TrainingSupportCenter/bSpace/faq.html
        http://ets.berkeley.edu/LearningSystems/
        http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Fall2007/1115.html
        free

CalShare (previously BearShare)

        for departments
        UC Berkeley's implementation of
        Microsoft's Office SharePoint Server 2007
        https://calshare.berkeley.edu
        $53 per month ($636 per year)

Basic Web Hosting

Cal Web Internet Information Services (IIS)

        IIS 6, ASP - Active Server Pages, ASP.NET
        FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions
        MSSQL Database, Access Database
        http://iis.calweb.berkeley.edu/
        $10.00 monthly per 250MB Storage

Socrates (Shared unix) - no new web site accounts are available.
        socrates system is scheduled to be retired in Fall 2008.
        For more information see:
        http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/serverabatement.html
        http://socrates.berkeley.edu/

Cal Web (Unix - arachne) - no new web site accounts are available.

        arachne system is scheduled to be retired in Fall 2008.
        http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/serverabatement.html
        Has cgi-bin, SSI, PHP, Perl available
        http://calweb.berkeley.edu/unix/about.html
        $9.29 monthly per 250MB Storage (Unix)

Advanced Web Hosting

Open Computing Facility (OCF) (Unix)

        volunteer student run, individual or group accounts
        Apache 2, cgi-bin, SSI, PHP, Perl, MySQL
        http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/services/virthosting.html (for groups)
        http://docs.ocf.berkeley.edu/wiki/Account_services_we_provide
        http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/services/
        free

Cal Web Professional (Unix)

        for departments
        Apache 2 (custom built web environments)
        Has 2 load-balanced production platforms to
        improve uptime (no development or quality control environs)
        http://ist.berkeley.edu/is/platforms/unix/calweb-pro/
        https://ccs-unix.berkeley.edu/public/webfarm
        http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/infrastructure.html
        $250 setup/$30 month.

Cal Webfarm (Unix)

        for departments
        Webfarm has three distinct environs:
                dev - development
                qa - quality assurance
                prod - production
        http://ist.berkeley.edu/is/platforms/unix/webfarm/
        https://ccs-unix.berkeley.edu/public/webfarm
        http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/infrastructure.html
        $40 per month ($480 per year)

Cal Webfarm - Internet Information Services (IIS)

        for departments
        http://ist.berkeley.edu/is/platforms/windows/webfarm/
        http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/infrastructure.html

Electronic Payment

        for departments
        http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Spring2005/epay.html
        http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Fall2005/epay.html

Web Applications (including secure web hosting)

        for departments
        consulting and software development
        http://ist.berkeley.edu/as/webapps/services/

Database Backends

Basic MySQL

https://kb.berkeley.edu/jivekb/entry.jspa?externalID=945

Database Provisioning, Hosting and Management

http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/infrastructure.html

Access Control

Central Authenication Service

https://calnet.berkeley.edu/news/entry/2007/07/30/01.html
https://calnet.berkeley.edu/developers/

Tutorials and User Groups

Designing Accessible Web Pages

Web Design Tutorial (at Knight Digital Media Center)

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/webdesign/

Webnet (user group)

http://webnet.berkeley.edu/

Departmental Resources

Check with your department for information about what web services they provide (if any). Services vary by department, for example: