Silk Web Hosting: Silkv3 coming soon

ETS is building a new generation of silk hosting servers, with new and updated tools and an improved experience for command-line users. If you are interested in becoming an early adopter, please contact Systems Architecture & Administration.

Since the spring of 2018, UVM’s silk hosting service has been built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, for which vendor support ends soon. ETS is creating new systems built on RHEL9, offering a number of new features and updated versions of most existing tools. In addition, we are making a number of improvements that we hope will make it an even better place to host your content.

A few highlights:

• Web features: HTTP/2 and WebSockets support. Web server logs will be searchable from a database rather than located on-disk under site directories.
• Programming languages: PowerShell Core and Rust have been added, in addition to newer versions of Go, Java, Node.js, Perl, Python, and R. New options will be available for PHP assertions and R packages.
• Login session ease of use: Many tools show syntax highlighting of your files by default. If you have multiple sites using different tool versions, your shell will automatically use the expected version when under the directory for each site. New text editors are available, with lots of options to pick from.

See What’s New in Silkv3 for a full list.

Following initial testing with early adopters, we hope to migrate all remaining users and their sites over the next several months.