0dd49e5cd65cc9b5f17b049f57e04225a9ecd715 kuhn Fri Aug 28 14:01:53 2020 -0700 small cosmetic changes diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html index d82583d..1cee7a1 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html @@ -908,46 +908,46 @@ 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. 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 +Offers start at around $5-10/month for 25-50 GB 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 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 +typically do work. As of 2020, they cost around 2-3 US cents /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, and your institution does not provide a data location supporting byte-range requests, 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>