From 66e4b9c713973011cf7e5fe4501c3b78808674b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kathleen Fitzpatrick <3170201+kfitz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 17:45:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix another line break
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@@ -173,12 +173,12 @@ Note: and as of August 2023, AWS hosted 42 percent of the top 100,000 websites,
Note: Why has Amazon become so powerful a force in web hosting and cloud computing? Largely because they provide not just servers but a powerful suite of tools that help folks like us keep our platform stable and secure and enable it to scale with enormous flexibility. AWS provides services that would be more than a full-time job for someone to maintain in-house, and it enables redundancy and global reach at speed. AWS also crucially soothes our institutions' risk management anxieties by moving traffic off-campus. So… it works for us, just as it works for 42,000 of the top 100,000 websites across the internet. But I’m not happy about it. It’s not just that I hate feeding more money into the Bezos empire every month, but that I know for certain that our values do not align. And every so often I have to stop and ask how much good it does for us to build pathways of escape from the extractive clutches of Elsevier and friends, only to have those pathways deliver us all into the gaping maw of Amazon?
-# ~~alternatives~~
+## ~~alternatives~~
Notes: AWS has a stranglehold on web-based platforms of our size, as we’re too big for a box under the desk, too complicated for a smaller hosting service, and too small for our own data center. And if you don’t want to deal with the risks and costs involved in owning and operating the metal yourself, there just aren’t many good alternatives.
-# MSU
+## MSU
Note: Here at MSU, like many other research universities, we have both an institutional data center operated by central IT and a high-performance computing center running under the aegis of the office of research and innovation. The latter can’t help us right now, as it’s focused pretty exclusively on computational uses and not at all on service hosting. And the former comes with a suite of restrictions and regulations in terms of access and security –
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ Note: A collaborative, community operated cloud service is not impossible to ima
Note: The NSF funded ACCESS-CI project points in this direction, but the process of getting access (ha ha) to this infrastructure for a project like ours isn’t 100% clear, and it’s also not clear how durable and sustainable such access will be in the face of what's happening to the NSF right now.
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internet2.edu
Note: Real shared cyberinfrastructure will require a high degree of commitment from a large number of institutions to be viable. So what if an organization like Internet2 that already has such commitment were to offer an alternative – one that was not just developed for the academic community but that would be governed by that community? What if each member institution or organization agreed to contribute access to its existing infrastructure and some portion of its annual maintenance budget to a shared, distributed, community-owned cloud computing center? Could excess capacity then be offered at reasonable prices to other nonprofit institutions or organizations or projects like mine, in a way that might draw us away from the Silicon Valley megacorps? Would our institutions, our libraries, our publishers, and our many other web-based projects find themselves with better control over their futures?