Pricing


Hosting services are priced in block sizes called units. All services require at least one unit and additional units can be added to a hosted service as needed.

Infrastructure

Virtual Machine

  • There is no charge for CPUs, however counts over 8vCPUs will require proof of need.
  • Every VM must have one Memory unit and one VM Disk unit from any tier. Individual disks can be on different tiers.
Unit Monthly Unit Price Provides
CPU $0 1 - 8 vCPU
Memory $8

2GB

Gold VM Disk $15

80GB

Silver VM Disk $20

250GB

Bronze VM Disk $15

250GB

File Share

Unit Monthly Unit Price Provides Use Case
Performance $13 250GB

 

Best for datasets that are frequently accessed

Capacity $2.50 250GB Best for large datasets that are infrequently accessed
Basic
  • $3
  • Additional $4.50 for replication
1TB Best for large archive datasets that are very infrequently accessed

Platform

Backup and Archive

Unit Monthly Unit Price Provides Use Case
NSAM $6.50 1TB Long-term archival for legal and operational retention requirements.

Website

Unit Monthly Unit Price Provides
Apache $5
  • 20G storage for one website's document root
  • Secure CGI environment with:
    • PHP
    • Python
    • Perl
  • Shell access to interactive node
  • Accessible via SSH, SCP, SFTP
  • Job scheduling w/ cron
  • Highly-available, load-balanced active/active web servers
  • Nightly backups with offsite storage
  • Optional: Managed SSL cert w/ dedicated IP
  • Optional: Shibboleth Service Provider configuration
  • Optional: PHP FastCGI for high-traffic websites
  • Apache version contingent upon installed RHEL version
IIS $5
  • 20G storage for one website's document root
  • Secure CGI environment including:
    • ASP
    • PHP
    • .NET 4.0
  • Highly-available, load-balanced active/active web servers
  • Nightly backups with offsite storage
  • Optional: Managed SSL cert w/ dedicated IP
  • Optional: Shibboleth Service Provider configuration
  • IIS version 7.5 on Windows Server Enterprise
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T4 $0
  • Hosting for one T4 website
  • Highly available, load-balanced web servers
  • Nightly backups with offsite storage
  • Managed SSL certificate
  • T4 content management system and the official UF template provided by UFIT Web Services
WordPress $9
  • Hosting for one website on the WordPress Multisite platform
  • Highly available, load-balanced web servers
  • Nightly backups with offsite storage
  • Managed SSL certificate
  • WordPress platform, UF theme and plug-in review provided by UFIT Web Services

Database

Unit Monthly Unit Price Provides
MySQL $10
  • 20G disk storage
  • Administrative user with full control of database
  • Additional users as needed
  • Log-based replication to standby DB
  • Up to 30 days of nightly backups in the case of catastrophic infrastructure failure
MSSQL $25
  • 20G disk storage and 4 GB RAM
  • A maintained virtual server running Windows Server with MS-SQL Enterprise software
  • Runs on highly available infrastructure hardware 
  • Up to 30 days of nightly backups to protect against data loss 
PostgreSQL $15
  • 20G disk storage
  • A maintained virtual server running RHEL Server with YugabyteDB software
  • Highly available infrastructure hardware (all databases are striped across multiple nodes)

Public cloud

AWS, Azure and GCP are billed each month for what you use. Each cloud's page explains its costs: AWS, Azure, GCP.