where to host web server

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Shahar Dag <dag at cs.technion.ac.il> wrote:

> Hello****
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> I am the system administrator of a teaching laboratory at the Technion.***
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> We would like to give the students in a project that involve developing a
> web site (sorry, I don't have any additional details here) a dedicate
> machine.****
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> Due to the Technion security limitation, we can't do it in house, so we
> are looking to host the project somewhere outside the Technion.
>

Out of curiosity, what is the security limitation? Even if hosted
externally, I'd expect the machines to "logically belong" to the Technion
(e.g., in the "technion.ac.il" sense as well as in every legal sense) and
be accessible from (at least some) computers that are physically connected
to the internal Technion network, as well as from computers that can be
connected to the Technion network (students' laptops, etc.). What do you
expect from external hosting that you cannot do in your lab, securely?

I can easily imagine that Amazon or other external hosting may be
cost-effective compared to an internal VM (or other) farm. But cost is not
stated as the primary issue here.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org
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