2c8afb0254c9e2781bd844f87569fd165ae6bfc6 max Fri Feb 14 01:56:37 2020 -0800 removing webspace provider note in track hub hosting help, no redmine, but Brian Lee email diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html index eb49896..e93e92b 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html @@ -868,56 +868,59 @@ <b>Your Institution:</b> Many universities provide a location for researchers to place shareable data on the web and contacting your institution's system administrators will help discover a location to store your data. For example, if you work at the NIH, there is an internal data sharing <a href="https://hpc.nih.gov/nih/datashare.html" target="_blank">NIH network</a> site. Sometimes institution firewall rules can change, and you may need to inform your system administrators to add browser IP addresses as exceptions, listed <a href="http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Public_Hub_Guidelines#Connection_issues.3F" target="_blank">here</a>. Usually your IT department can direct you to someone who manages webspace for individual groups. This is our recommended option, as it is usually free, very fast and you can update the files yourself easily.</p> <p><b>Webspace providers:</b> 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.</p> +UCSC. There are usually no backups included, so it is good +to keep local copies of your files.</p> <p><b>Cloud providers:</b> In general, commercial online cloud <b>backup</b> 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 <b>storage</b> 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 <a href="http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Cloud-storage_providers_and_byte-range_requests_of_UCSC_big*_files" target="_blank">distributed storage servers</a>. <b>These services are external to UCSC and may change.</b></p> </p><b>Free webspace:</b> 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: <ul> <li><a href="https://de.cyverse.org/de/" target="_blank">CyVerse Discovery Environment</a> - lots of space, but can be relatively slow to display</li> <!--<li><a href="https://usegalaxy.org/" target="_blank">Galaxy</a></li>--> <li><a href="https://github.com/" target="_blank">Github</a> - files limited to 100MB, but very fast</li> <li><a href="https://figshare.com/" target="_blank">Figshare</a> - not limited and fast, but every file needs to be uploaded individually and cannot be changed. Optimal for very stable links, e.g. in publications.</li> </ul> Each of the providers above has a slightly different approach to hosting data for compatibility with the UCSC Genome Browser, and may have different advantages and disadvantages,