at senate tonight, we got to talking about the idea of mercer offering webspace to its students for use as personal websites or to advertise their organizations or whatnot
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Georgia Tech does. It's handled through an office called OIT (office of information technology) and they are responsible for all technology on campus, which is a huge job.
It would probably be a pretty hefty project for whoever is in charge of the tech stuff at Mercer. For it to be even worth it you would need at least 10-20 megabytes of storage per student, with probably a gigabyte cap on data transfer per month. That can get expensive quickly.
And to be honest, I don't know anyone that uses their school webspace for more than 10% of school related things. Right now I've got various mp3s and videos on mine that have nothing to do with school that take up 95% of the space, and word documents and excel spreadsheets and computer programming projects that take up 5% of it.
Is it nice? Yes. But without a way to limit bandwidth and data storage, you'll have kids setting up file servers and costing Mercer lots and lots of money every month.
I know Southern does and I would assume IT handles it because they handle all things computer related. I will see if I can find out how that works and whatnot.
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It would probably be a pretty hefty project for whoever is in charge of the tech stuff at Mercer. For it to be even worth it you would need at least 10-20 megabytes of storage per student, with probably a gigabyte cap on data transfer per month. That can get expensive quickly.
And to be honest, I don't know anyone that uses their school webspace for more than 10% of school related things. Right now I've got various mp3s and videos on mine that have nothing to do with school that take up 95% of the space, and word documents and excel spreadsheets and computer programming projects that take up 5% of it.
Is it nice? Yes. But without a way to limit bandwidth and data storage, you'll have kids setting up file servers and costing Mercer lots and lots of money every month.
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Hope all is well!
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