Consistent, security-enhanced, cost-effective, enterprise web services are critical to the university’s mission. By providing a suite of central web hosting services to campus, the university will be able to better manage cost, compliance, and security of U-M websites.
Wolverine Web Services (WWS) will provide a variety of multi-tier website content management (CMS) and website hosting services to campus. Faculty, students, staff, university groups, student organizations, and departments will be able to choose from three tiers:
- A free tier for personal and group websites.
- A paid tier for managed WordPress or Drupal web hosting for websites up to and including mission-critical university business websites.
- A paid tier for hosting web applications, both off-the-shelf and custom-written.
- Retire AFS Web Virtual Hosting.
Current Status
- 2024 Accomplishments:
- Launch U-M Pantheon service (fee based).
- Deployed initial version of the self-service ITS Web Hosting Services Portal.
- 2025 Accomplishments
- Ended creation of new AFS-hosted Drupal and WordPress sites.
- Enhanced the ITS Web Hosting Portal.
- Began development of a new ITS Static Web Hosting Service (free).
- Evaluated vendor web application hosting/service offerings.
- Started a project to get customers to use SSL Certificate automation.
- 2026 Activities:
- Provide a new vendor-hosted Web Application service (fee-based).
- Deploy the new ITS Static Web Hosting Service.
- Archive all inactive AFS static websites.
- Migrate active AFS static websites to the new ITS Static Web Hosting Service.
- Update the portal to support management of ITS Web Application and ITS Static Web Hosting services.
- Decommission (shut down) the ITS AFS Virtual Web Hosting Service.
- 2027 Activities:
- Launch WordPress Multisite (free).
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