"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
Use web.mit.edu
web.mit.edu is actually a pool of dedicated
webservers. These systems are maintained by the
Network Operations Group, which is part of
MIT Information Systems (IS), and provide
reliable, robust service all day, every day.
Used in conjunction with Athena "lockers", web.mit.edu provides an easy-to-use,
convenient, and cost-effective way for many thousands of "web publishers" to serve
their websites without running a webserver.
For example, the webpages for this talk reside in my Athena homedirectory,
and are located in the afs tree under
You can read about using web.mit.edu and its various features on
the WCS website.
/afs/athena/user/s/a/salemme/Public/it-partners
One of the local modifications to web.mit.edu has been to make it
recognize locker names, so that the urls "automatically" work. Thus, these
pages in my home directory are accessible on the web as
http://web.mit.edu/salemme/Public/it-partners/index.shtml
These pages also take advantage of "server side includes" that the webserver
performs, but the main advantage is that web.mit.edu is always available to
serve new pages without the website maintainer having to do anything special.