Web Express Update - Cloud Hosting Migration

In November we announced the Web Express service will be moving to a cloud hosting environment in phases during 2020. We will begin the first phase of this process the week of March 16, 2020.

All lab, faculty and student group websites will be migrated on March 16, 17, and 18.  

What You Can Expect

  • You will receive an email before and after the process.
  • Your site will be locked for approximately one hour from content edits.
  • No down time is expected for your website.
  • URL patterns will change to subdomain patterns (e.g. lab.colorado.edu/sitename).
  • Redirects from old URL patterns to the new will be implemented during the migration.
  • Everything will work exactly the same, it is just your URL pattern that will change.

URL Pattern Changes

Currently we have URL patterns that group similar websites under a common structure. We will continue to keep these group URL patterns but they will change to a subdomain pattern. For example, the following URL patterns will change:

  • From colorado.edu/lab/sitename to lab.colorado.edu/sitename
  • From colorado.edu/faculty/sitename to faculty.colorado.edu/sitename

The URL patterns will give us greater flexibility in the future to meet the specific needs of different groups - particularly around search and findability.