Do Your Really, Really Need to Run Your Own Webserver?
  Some Practical Alternatives and Suggestions
Anne Salemme MIT IT Partners Conference October 24, 2002

Introduction

"No Cost" Option:
 Use web.mit.edu

"Some Cost" Option:
 Run a content-less webserver

"Some Cost" Option:
 Let W91 do it

"Last Resort" Option:
 Do-it-yourself

Webserver management essentials

Useful links

Example: webmail.mit.edu

About me

About me

I work in the Network Operations group, part of Information Systems, located in W92. I have many years of systems administation experience, having started out in the Univac 1100 and DECsystem-10 days, and have done programming, documentation writing, software management and various other things that come in handy when designing, building, testing and managing webservers. I worked in the Athena Server Operations group for five years, and have been working in the Network Operations group for four years. I currently spend much of my time hovering around and tinkering with webservers supported by the Network Operations group: the search engine, the campus map server, the webpage access counter, and webmail.


Updated October 23, 2002. Copyright © 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Written by salemme@mit.edu