Web Authoring Guide
When considering where your website should be hosted you might like to consider the following advantages of placing it on the corporate web system.
The University’s corporate web will be hosted on multiple high-end servers, providing a high level of redundancy. Should a web server fail, a process will automatically detect this and quickly redistribute incoming requests to the remaining servers.
The new publishing process on the corporate web where changes are done in the test environment before being uploaded to the live environment will also help to provide an uninterrupted and continuous service. As the University moves all of its services towards 24x7x52, being part of a highly available corporate environment will be a distinct advantage.
The University’s corporate web will be hosted on equipment which has multiple processors, large memory and multiple high-speed network cards. The system has been stress tested and can support thousands of simultaneous connections.
Not only do the corporate web servers have high speed network cards, but their location in the network means they have very high speed access to the internet. Together these elements combine to provide fast delivery of the web content to the many users external to the campus.
The corporate web servers reside in environmentally controlled and secure locations which have
All web related activity that occurs on the corporate web servers is logged and automatically imported into a web statistics package. The data collected about number of hits, type of browser, location of user etc will help corporate web site administrators improve the layout and content of their information.
Any changes that are made to the corporate templates will flow automatically to content on the corporate server ensuring a consistent look and feel through the whole site. For content not located on the corporate server this process will be manual and may result in a divergence in regard to look and feel.
The corporate web servers are centrally administered by Information Strategy and Technology Services (ISTS). They are backed up on a nightly basis and regularly patched to ensure that they are not vulnerable to any security threats.
