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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.
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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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