67d8b9526535b1bbb93cd03b2b085958670c9557 brianlee Thu Feb 20 16:04:40 2020 -0800 Code Review change refs #24985 diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html index 9a49b82..5e5140c 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html @@ -880,31 +880,31 @@ <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. Files can be uploaded with FTP, rsync or scp and appear on a https:// domain. Avoid unlimited offers, they often do not allow binary files and are slower, rather look for a "virtual private server" (VPS). Some examples 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 "virtual private server comparison". Offers start at around 5-10$/month for 25-50GB of storage. The advantage of VPS providers is that they bill a flat rate per month, which may be -easier to order through Universities than the per GB transferred billing of cloud +easier to order through universities than the per GB transferred 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. 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 (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 (Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Backblaze, Alibaba Object Store, etc.) 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