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OWLS Hosting and Support
Service
Would you love to try OWLS and use
it in your classrooms but have neither the time, skills,
or infrastructure to install and host the scripts?
The Fool's Workshop will be offering commercial
hosting and support of OWLS beginning in February of 2003,
offering:
- Installation of OWLS scripts
- Hosting of OWLS on a fast and stable web server
- 100 Megabytes of space for all your exercises and media
content (optional expansion of space)
- Support for all your OWLS questions and issues via email
- Monthly backups of OWLS data
- Discount for individual accounts for those who share
their content with others
The OWLS scripts require a web server
with support for PHP, and installation of the scripts
may require a little bit of setup. Since the scripts were
designed to free language instructors from the investment
of time required to learn web design and other skills
necessary to host interactive content, these same instructors
may not like the prospect of having to install the scripts
and be left to fend for themselves when they run into
trouble.
Email if you are interested. The price
is very competitive, even considering only hosting, and
instructors may host both OWLS and other educational content
in their allocated space.
Pricing
Individual Single Account
$30 setup/configuration fee
$25 monthly hosting and support fee
Individual Open Content Single Account (See Notes)
$30 setup/configuration fee
$20 monthly hosting and support fee
Department Package (up to 5 accounts or 500 Megabytes)
$30 setup/configuration +$10 per account
$100 monthly hosting and support fee (Saves $25 per month)
Department Package (up to 10 accounts or 1 Gigabyte)
$30 setup/configuration +$10 per account
$190 monthly hosting and support fee (Saves $60 per month)
Notes:
-The first
payment includes only a setup fee and one month of hosting.
Cancellation in the first 30 days will result in reimbursement
of the first month of hosting but not setup costs.
-After the first month, payments will be
for hosting quarterly (every three months). Cancellation
during this period will not result in a refund for remaining
time during that quarter.
-Each account gets 100 Megabytes of space, and its own
set of scripts for OWLS or web content. Bandwidth is not
fixed and reasonable usage is unmetered.
-No illegal or adult content may be hosted and abuse of
OWLS hosting can result in closing of the account with
no reimbursement for the remaining time in the pay period.
-FTP access is provided for department package accounts
for backup purposes and the upload of additional static
content. Eventually this service may be provided
to single accounts as well.
-Email support will be provided within 24 hours of request
for help.
-Backups of data will be made monthly.
-Those who release their OWLS content (except for sound
files) under the Open Content license will receive the
discount if they purchase individual accounts. The Fool's
Workshop will collect Open Content and offer a central
searchable database of such materials for everyone to
benefit from.
-If you are interested in virtual hosting
(using your own domain name) please indicate this as the
service may be available.
-If a departmental package is purchased but not all accounts
are used, unused space (100 MB per account) will be distributed
amont the remaining accounts and the department may add
the additional accounts at any time.
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