Personal Web space

The Library no longer provides accounts on our Unix machines for personal websites. WebFiles was the recommended alternative.

On June 27, 2008 the WebFiles service will be discontinued.

As an alternative to WebFiles, the campus recommends that students, faculty, and staff who are interested in basic web-based file storage consider bSpace, or the Open Computing Facility (OCF).

bSpace is available with 1 GB of storage at no direct cost. There a couple of IST Knowledge Base articles on how to migrate your files from WebFiles to bSpace, please see:

Uploading Files to bSpace
WebFiles Migration to bSpace

The OCF is a volunteer student run service on campus. This service, while not financially supported by IST or other campus departments offers the ability to host a website at no cost to students, faculty or staff.

However, the Library will provide space on a Unix machine for work related websites. Please contact Lynne Grigsby-Standfill (lgrigsby@library) with your request. The Library Systems Office will create an account for you so you may use secure FTP to transfer files directly to, and delete files from a webserver.

Personal websites: The University of California, Berkeley supports the concept of faculty, staff, and students creating personal websites that provide information relevant to the individual's role at the campus. Any uses of the University name or marks are subject to restrictions on Use of the University name and seal (see that section in this Policy; itpolicy.berkeley.edu/e-Berkeley.policy.html).

Sites on University servers may not be used to promote personal business or to provide personal financial gain, except as permitted under applicable academic personnel policies. (See Section N of the Business and Finance Bulletin 29 - Management and Control of University Equipment).

Personal sites shall not give the impression that they are representing, giving opinions, or otherwise making statements on behalf of the University or any unit of the University unless appropriately authorized (explicitly or implicitly) to do so. Where appropriate, an explicit disclaimer shall be included unless it is clear from the context that the author is not representing the University. An appropriate disclaimer is:

The opinions or statements expressed herein should not be taken as a position of or endorsement by the University of California, Berkeley.

Personal sites may not be registered with the UC Berkeley Web Registry.