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An own webserver
You set up your own webserver and use an own machine for this. This can be done, but keep a few important side-effects in mind,
which mostly make we have to advise against it to do so:
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You are responsible for your own maintenance, backup, security problems with the server.
The responsible, in some cases, has a temporar cantract and maintaining the server is not his/her actual task (e.g. assistant).
Keep in mind that continuity is not ensured for the future.
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There are a whole lot of security problems with "self-set-up-servers".
Within DICT a team is responsible for the setting up and maintainance of servers, and the continuity is ensured.
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The implementing of a central firewall is hampered if servers are set up here and there.
This also endangers others within UGent. In the past, there were a whole lot of trouble concerning this.
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