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If your Contribute site's web address starts with http://fog (not http://www) these announcements are for you.
04/30/2007 for Contribute at CCSF
Because of space limitations and changes behind the scenes on our CCSF servers (the large computers that actually hold your web pages), all new Contribute sites are on the fog server. So, addresses start with fog.ccsf.edu instead of www.ccsf.edu. Otherwise, things look the same.
To see some of our new developers' sites, go to:
Other differences with the sites on www.ccsf.edu (aside from the address change):
Instead of using keys, new Contribute users enter their own site information into Contribute's built-in screens. This is still a one-time process on each Contribute computer, but doesn't involve downloading a key. Differences between Mac and Windows OS, different browsers and even different browser versions complicated key installs to the point where we decided to do without.
On the www server, everyone was actually part of the same web site. On fog, each site is individual, which makes it possible to monitor the size of the files uploaded and in most cases, limit web site size to 50 Megabytes. On www if a few people uploaded a lot and the entire site exceeded size limits - suddenly NOBODY could work on their site anymore. Not good!
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