ITS Chargeable Services

LJMU Staff can apply for a small file share to be set up on the premium service free of charge. An initial 1GB of disk space will be allocated at set up and can be incremented further as and when needed.

• Externally Funded/Commercial Activity

If the file share is for the purpose of an externally funded project or for commercial activity, charges will apply. The charge is for a period of 4 years at the end of which you will be contacted and offered the option to renew.

• Non LJMU Staff

Charges will apply. The charge is for a period of 4 years at the end of which you will be contacted and offered the option to renew.

Initial set up cost: £30
Disk space (5GB minimum): £30
Total (for 4 years): £60

LJMU Staff, research groups, schools, departments and faculties can apply for up to 2TB of large capacity storage free of charge. Additional disk space can be purchased in units of ¼ TB (250 GB). The charge is for a period of 4 years at the end of which you will be contacted and offered the option to renew.

¼ TB (250GB): £110
½ TB (500GB): £220
¾ TB (750GB): £330
1 TB (1000GB): £440

Please note
This service will replace the shared drives on NAS and we will be co-ordinating the moves onto the new disks with the users. If your current share on NAS already exceeds 2TB no charges will apply for what you currently have, however, requests for additional disk space will incur charges.

Commercial Activity

If the file share is for commercial activity, charges will apply, there will be no free allocation of disk space. The charge is for a period of 4 years at the end of which you will be contacted and offered the option to renew.

Non LJMU Staff

Charges will apply, there will be no free allocation of disk space. The charge is for a period of 4 years at the end of which you will be contacted and offered the option to renew.

LJMU Staff and Researchers can apply for large capacity storage on the standard service free of charge depending on your requirement and the available disk space at the time of request.

• Commercial Activity

If the file share is for commercial activity, charges will apply. The charge is for a period of 4 years at the end of which you will be contacted and offered the option to renew.

• Non LJMU Staff

Charges will apply. The charge is for a period of 4 years at the end of which you will be contacted and offered the option to renew.

Initial set up cost: £30
Disk space (5GB minimum): £5
Total (for 4 years): £35

For simplicity, three generic server models have been identified, the costs for which are once-off for a 4-year period and inclusive of operating system, monitoring and backup agent licences:

Small (Dual processor, up to 4GB memory)
Production environment: £800
Test/Development: £600

Medium (Dual processor, up to 8GB memory)
Production environment: £1100
Test/Development: £825

Large (Quad processor, up to 16GB memory)
Production Environment: £2000
Test/Development: £1500

All servers come with 250GB of disk space.

Please note
There are no backup or recovery services available for test servers. They must not be used in a production environment. In the event of a major failure, the hardware used in the Test environment may be reassigned to the Production environment meaning the test servers will become unavailable.

Production Service Costs

Production SQL Database

• Additional disk space charges.

Production Website

£200 for a 5GB website for 4 years.

• This includes a 2-year SSL certificate. (Please note you will be recharged for another two-year SSL certificate in year 3).

Production Combined Website and SQL database 

£800 for a 5GB website and database for 4 years 

• This includes a 2-year SSL certificate. (Please note you will be recharged for another two-year SSL certificate in year 3).

To renew the secure website certificate there will be a charge of £36 for a 2-year period. This is a charge imposed by our supplier and not IT Services.

• Additional disk space on the Premium Server is charged at £6 per GB
• Additional disk space on the Standard Server is charged at £1 per GB