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Globule Web Hosting Service
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As part of the Globule project, we are pleased
to offer Web-hosting resources to members of the Vrije
Universiteit who expect significantly higher than normal traffic
to their Web site (i.e., a flash-crowd). An example of such
situation is when you plan to publish a
link to your site in Slashdot. We have a number of machines
(mostly at the VU, but also a few out of the VU) running the Globule software, which can be used to
sustain this kind of large traffic.
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How this works
Hosting a site at our servers can be done at the following
conditions:
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This facility is open only to employees from the Vrije
Universiteit, in the context of research or teaching
projects. We may also host sites unrelated to the Vrije
Universiteit, but please contact us well in advance if
you would like to host your site here.
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You must notify us at
least 7 days before the expected start of the
flash-crowd. This delay is necessary for us to transfer the
DNS records, it cannot be reduced.
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Your documents will not be served from your usual shared
files system but from the local file system of our Globule
servers. We will give you an account on one of these machines,
so that you can edit your documents in place.
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We will not check the validity of your HTML pages. If you
generate wrong HTML, broken links or any other similar stuff, we
will not fix that for you. Check your documents
yourselves...
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We do support PHP documents, but be warned that you will
need to slightly update your
pages to allow Globule to replicate them.
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In general, we will not support .htaccess files. If you
need access control, redirection or other features usually
provided by .htaccess files, then contact us well in
advance. We will see what we can do.
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Our Track Record
In the past, we have successfully hosted the following
sites:
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www.minix3.org: on 25th
October 2005, the Minix3 operating system was officially
released. The news was announced in many bulletin boards,
including Slashdot. On that day alone, we served over 750,000
requests to 50,000 users, including about 12,000 downloads of
CD-ROM images.
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www.rfidvirus.org and www.rfidguardian.org: on
15th March 2006, the vulnerability of RFID tags to virus and worm
attacks was revealed. The news (and links to the web sites) was
announced in several national newspapers, and on Slashdot. On that
day alone, we served about 220,000 requests to 20,000 users,
including about 2,000 downloads of large video files.
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globule@globule.org
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