Webspace providers: If your institution does not provide any web hosting space for you, the most convenient solution is usually to buy a -virtualized webspace server from a commercial web hosting provider. These cost -around $5-30 per month, provide more than 100GB of storage and unlimited -bandwith. Often this service is called "shared hosting" or VPS, virtual private -server. Files can be uploaded with FTP, rsync or scp and appear on a https:// +virtualized webspace server from a commercial web hosting provider. +Files can be uploaded with FTP, rsync or scp and appear on a https:// domain. Some exemples of providers are: A2 Hosting, BlueHost, GoDaddy, HostGator, Hostinger, DreamHost, but there are many others. This is not a complete list and we do not endorse a particular one. You can search the -internet for subsets of these to find comparisons and reviews. The advantage of -webspace providers is that they bill a flat rate per month, which is often +internet for "web hosting comparison". Avoid unlimited offers, they often +do not allow binary files and are slower, rather look for a +"virtual private server" (VPS). +Offers start at around 5-10$/month for 25-50GB of storage. The advantage of +webspace providers is that they bill a flat rate per month, which may be easier to order through Universities than the per-GB billing of cloud providers. For optimal performance, select a West Coast / San Francisco data center when ordering a web server, as this is closest and fastest from -UCSC. Unlike cloud providers, the storage is less reliable, it is good -to keep local copies of the files.
+UCSC. There are usually no backups included, so it is good +to keep local copies of your files.Cloud providers: In general, commercial online cloud backup providers that charge a flat rate, like Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, Box.com, Microsoft OneDrive, Tencent Weiyun, Yandex.Disk, etc. do not work reliably as their business model requires rare and rate-limited data access, which is too slow or too limited for genome annotation display. However, commercial cloud storage offers that charge per GB transferred, like Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Backblaze, Alibaba Object Store, etc. -typically do work. For optimal performance, -select a San Francisco / San Jose data center for the main UCSC site genome.ucsc.edu, -a Frankfurt/Germany data center for genome-euro.ucsc.edu and a Tokyo data center for -genome-asia.ucsc.edu. You may also want to review this discussion about issues with +typically do work. As of 2020, they cost around 2-3 US cents per GB/month to store +the hub data and 12-18 US cents per GB transferred, when the hub is used +For optimal performance, select a San Francisco / San Jose data center for the main +UCSC site genome.ucsc.edu, a Frankfurt/Germany data center for +genome-euro.ucsc.edu and a Tokyo data center for genome-asia.ucsc.edu. You may +also want to review this discussion about issues with distributed storage servers. These services are external to UCSC and may change.
Free webspace: If you do not want to pay for web space, we know of at least the following sites where you can host research data and configuration files for free: