Should Universities and Colleges be in the Web Hosting Business?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Should Universities and Colleges be in the Web Hosting Business?
Mark Bradley, Show Me the Data - A Blog About Higher Education Websites, 2019/03/12
If you've been wondering why I'm studying cloud hosting, this is why. The answer this article suggests to the question in its title is "no" as it offers up statistics on which major cloud hosting services are supporting how many institutional websites across six nations. Amazon Web Services is the clear leader with Google and Rackspace coming second and third (I', wondering which Canadian institution has GoDaddy's only contract). Note that this entire article is 'below the fold' on this website; you have to scroll past the self-promotion in order to actually find the article. More...