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  • Host: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Our site is on UNC's network. In mid-2002 our connections to the commodity and Internet2 networks were served by UNC's OC-48 network connection. We maintain a constant throughput of network traffic outbound in the 160-180Mbits/sec range. Our main servers were donated by IBM and serve content from a central fileserver with 2TB of disk attached. In our racks, we have approximately 5TB of space (with system disks, Sourceforge and an Internet2/Distributed Storage Initiative node). We do some load balancing between streaming services, web services, and large downloads like distros. On a typical day, we move over 1.5 terabytes of data off our servers. We run managed backups on UNC's enterprise storage facilities every night and have incremental backups for three months. UNC uses StorageTek machines and Tivoli Distributed Storage Manager for enterprise backups. We have had major data loss incidents, in which a raid card failed and lost the array's configuration. One of the disks in the array died simultaneously, we were unable to re-import the configuration to the new card, so we had to restore from backup, which took a number of days.
  • History: Sandra and Ronald Lee Still started the Home for Country Western Dance and Dancers as part of a high school support site on the servers at UNC in 1995. Site History
    • 1981 - Oldest UNC Usenet archive
    • 1990 - UNC bulletin board
    • 1991 - UNC registers site on calypso.oit.unc.edu and Tim Berners-Lee of CERN sets up UNC's first Home Page
    • 1992 - UNC proposal goes to Sun since it has been getting up to 100 ftp sessions in a 24-hour period; CERN and Lynx text-based browsers released to the public; first archives are placed on the UNC servers; OIT at UNC has been selected to put together and manage SUN's International ftp repository and to develop a WAIS-FTP client for OpenLook (This grant includes funding for one part time (student) position.); SunSITE comes out; under Boris Yeltsin, the formerly secret archives of the Central Committee of the Communist Party are released and posted by UNC; UNC houses unofficial Presidential archives; Sun Software Archive starts with free SAS downloads; server meltdown
    • 1993 - Clinton White House Archives come to SunSITE; Internet radio proposed; MOSAIC lists available servers
    • 1994 - First electronic Presidential budget to Congress available on SunSITE; Doctor Fun moves to SunSITE from Chicago; FreeBurma first Web human rights sites opens; first unofficial Elvis Presley site opens; Yahoo started its index; WebCrawler indexed almost 50,000 documents; UNC's WXYC became first radio station to offer live Internet simulcast
    • 1995 - N.C.Meme site started broadcasting North Carolina bands pictures, text, and sound on the Internet; National Gallery of Art sets up on SunSITE; HotJava Browser available free on SunSITE; Iconbrowser - a search engine with an icon collection moved in; server meltdown; Ronald and Sandra Still start Country Western Dance site and high school support sites on SunSITE
    • 1996 - UNC's MetaLab won an Academic Equipment Grant from Sun Microcomputer Systems in an international competition for excellence in information science research. The gift of over $170,000 worth of the latest Sun server technology, including an Enterprise Server 4000 with four 250Mhz processors and a gigabyte of RAM will update SunSITE. SunSITE becomes MetaLab.
    • 2000 - The Red Hat Center starts giving $4 million to UNC over the next five years and collaborates with the University to establish what officials hope will become the largest collection of freely distributed information on the Internet - "a lively, noisy, Jacksonian library."
  • Sponsor: Sandra Lee Still, Garner High School, Garner, NC
  • Webmaster: Ronald Lee Still, Garner, NC
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