where to host web server

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Steve G. <wordz2u at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Easiest example - a server with poor password. If you are in the intranet,
> and someone hacks into it and runs a DDOS on a local server, the admin will
> shut the offending server down and that's the end of it. Ditto for an error
> that creates infinite processing or broadcast loops. Do it to the outside
> world, and you'll have the authorities at your door.
>
> A second example - unauthorized content. Host kiddy porn on your internal
> account, and you'll be suspended (or your account closed till it is
> secured). Have an external hacker serving same from your university server,
> and you - and your institution and amin - will have to account to Interpol.
>
> You get my drift - some things are better left outside, where
> responsibility is the student's and the ISP's and not the Technion.
>

No, sorry, I don't get your drift. We are talking about a course project or
some such, i.e., a part of Technion's curriculum, where a student is
supposed to create a web site, and - I presume - his/her creation is
supposed to be tested and graded.

Either the site is on the Technion's internal net and not accessible from
outside, or it is public and is open to the world to see. In the first
case, an internal host seems easier. In the latter case, what's the URL? I
*do* expect it to be something.technion.ac.il (what else?).

In either case it is the Technion that will be responsible for the hosting
(networking, DNS, etc.), not the student. The student will just use
Technion's facility for his/her course work. In this case (creation of a
web site) I suppose the student will not even have any administrative
privileges. I absolutely do not see the Technion telling its students
"please enter into a hosting contract with Amazon on your own if you want
to pass this course". In any case, the hosting provider will deal with the
Technion, and if "authorities knock at the door" the Technion will have to
answer, and find the responsible student, and deal with it, etc.

If there is an illegal copy of Skyfall offered for download (or illegal
porn, or DDOS zombie, or whatever) then I do expect the Technion to be
liable equally regardless of the physical hosting facility. There may be a
difference related to which country it is hosted on - I would expect Israel
to be preferable for the Technion to anything else.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org
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