Web Server Cloud

Description

The HKU Web Server Cloud (Cloud) was introduced in June 2009 to support departmental web sites, running on central ITS Cloud platform.  When virtual web server fails, the VM will be restarted on another physical server automatically.  Each department has 50GB virtual disk space quota. If a department is hosting multiple websites, she is required to coordinate the allocated resources for shared use among all the web services in her department including the approval of additional accounts applied on the virtual server.  With the introduction of WIX and WordPress Content Management Systems (CMS), users have the choices of hosting the website on web server cloud platform or the other CMS.

Web servers created on or after Nov 2020

Application packages installed on a VM (CentOS 8.3):

  • Apache Web Server httpd 2.4.37 with PHP (FPM) 7.3.20
  • MySQL database server 8.0.21
  • List of standard PHP modules installed on VM:
    • bcmath
    • bz2
    • calendar
    • Core
    • ctype
    • curl
    • date
    • dba
    • dom
    • exif
    • fileinfo
    • filter
    • ftp
    • gd
    • gettext
    • hash
    • iconv
    • intl
    • json
    • libxml
    • mbstring
    • mysqli
    • mysqlnd
    • odbc
    • openssl
    • pcntl
    • pcre
    • PDO
    • pdo_mysql
    • PDO_ODBC
    • pdo_sqlite
    • Phar
    • posix
    • readline
    • Reflection
    • session
    • shmop
    • SimpleXML
    • sockets
    • SPL
    • sqlite3
    • standard
    • sysvmsg
    • sysvsem
    • sysvshm
    • tokenizer
    • wddx
    • xml
    • xmlreader
    • xmlwriter
    • xsl
    • Zend OPcache
    • zip
    • zlib

Available To

Departments

Service Hours

24 hours 7 days per week including holidays

User Requirement

Departments interested in using ITS web server cloud please fill in CF106.

Standard Costs

Free

Service Request and Support

service_category: 
System Services