{"id":45,"date":"2020-12-08T11:45:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T10:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/?p=45"},"modified":"2020-12-10T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T16:21:32","slug":"the-meb-web-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/the-meb-web-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"The MEB &#8220;web hotel&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is it?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;web hotel&#8221; is a place where our researchers and employees can publish stuff on the web. It has a WordPress server, it can run shiny apps, and it can also host ordinary static web sites. It does have the ability to serve websites under other host-names, and thus can be used to give a project a &#8220;web presence&#8221;, with its own web address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new one replaces the server known as <em>fafner<\/em> &#8212; which you may fondly remember, but which was, at the end, an enormous security hole. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new setup involves both a separation of different functions across several servers, for easier maintenance, as well as protection in the form of upgraded security and a fronting firewall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How do you get your own space?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Send an email to <a href=\"mailto:it-support@meb.ki.se\">it-support@meb.ki.se<\/a>, and tell us what you want to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Are there restrictions and caveats?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, yes &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Obviously, it&#8217;s meant to be used for publishing stuff related to your work at the department. Your CV, a blog on epidemiology or biostats, a website for a course you are running, things like that.<\/li><li>For safety&#8217;s sake, there are limits to what you are allowed to do with your site: you cannot add users on your own, and you cannot <em>install<\/em> plugins and themes, only activate the ones already installed (or deactivate). We will try to maintain a nice selection of themes and plugins for you, but if you have needs or suggestions outside that, tell us, and we will try to help you.<\/li><li>Also for the sake of safety, we will ruthlessly upgrade the software running the site, even if that breaks stuff.<\/li><li>If you run a shiny app, you&#8217;re on your own, basically &#8212; you get a login on the server, and your own R environment, and you are responsible for getting it to work. 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