Service | URL | Usage | Contact | Advantages | Disadvantages | Getting Started |
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Non-IU Hosting | Arbitrary | Arbitrary | ISP | - Wide variety of hosting options
- Not tied to your IU account so is not removed when you leave IU.
| - May not be free but costs are generally modest, depending on your needs
- Cannot be used for sensitive data
| Contact the ISP managing the desired service. There are literally thousands of web hosting options out there supporting wordpress, drupal, joomla, php, ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, etc. Once you have a non-IU web page, you can register it so you also have a http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/username url via the Homepage Management Page |
IU Pages | - http://pages.iu.edu/~username
| Personal Homepages | UITS | - No cost web hosting
- Available to anyone at IU
| - Only 1GB of storage space
- Disappears when you leave IU
- HTML Hosting only, no PHP/CGI
- Cannot be used for sensitive data
| At IU, what is Pages and how can I publish a web page here? |
SoIC CGI/PHP Server (for Homepages) | - http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/username
- http://cgi.soic.indiana.edu/~username
| Personal Homepages | SoIC | - No cost web hosting
- Available to SoIC faculty, staff, and students
- Support for PHP and arbitrary CGI programming (python, perl, etc)
| - Shared storage space with your SoIC Linux account home directory so limited to disk quota
- Cannot be used for sensitive data
- Disappears when you leave IU
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SoIC Wordpress Homepages | - http://wphomes.soic.indiana.edu/username
- http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/username
| Personal Homepages | SoIC | - No cost web hosting
- Available to SoIC faculty, staff, and graduate students
- Popular Wordpress Content Management System
- Wordpress installation SoIC Managed
| | How do I ask for help with a technology or facilities issue? |
SoIC Course Homepages and Syllabi Hosting | - http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/courses/...course designation...
- Links automatically included on the SoIC Graduate and Undergraduate course pages
| Course Homepages and Syllabus Uploads | SoIC | - No cost web hosting
- Available to SoIC course instructors
- Allows for the upload of course syllabi for automatic inclusion into the SoIC Graduate and Undergraduate course pages
- Provides historic record of course information
| | How do I upload information about classes I'm teaching? |
IU Webserve | - http://www.indiana.edu/~groupname
- http://projectname.soic.indiana.edu
- http://projectname.indiana.edu
- http://projectname.iu.edu
| Research and Project Pages | UITS | | - Not for personal homepages
- Minimal cost for storage space > 1GB (school may cover costs for approved use)
| Webserve Quick Start Guide |
IU Common Hosting Environment (CHE) | - http://projectname.webhost.iu.edu
- http://projectname.soic.indiana.edu
- http://projectname.indiana.edu
- http://projectname.iu.edu
| Research and Project Pages | UITS | - Supports ASP.NET in an IIS environment
- Can be used for approved sensitive data applications
| - Not for personal homepages
- Minimal cost for storage space > 1GB (school may cover costs for approved use)
| Consolidated Hosting Environment (CHE) Quick Start Guide |
IU Enterprise Confluence | - https://uisapp2.iu.edu/confluence-prd/display/projectname
- http://projectname.soic.indiana.edu/ (redirect)
| Research and Project Pages | UITS | - Easy to use Collaborative/Wiki environment
- Confluence installation manged by UITS
| - Not for personal homepages
- Cannot be used for sensitive data
- Requires faculty or staff sponsor
| What is the IU Enterprise Confluence? |
Wordpress Hosting | - http://projectname.soic.indiana.edu/
| Research and Project Pages | SoIC | - Popular Wordpress Content Management System
- Wordpress installation SoIC Managed
| | How do I ask for help with a technology or facilities issue? |
SoIC CGI/PHP Server (for project pages) | - http://projectname.soic.indiana.edu/
| Research and Project Pages | SoIC | - No cost web hosting
- Available to SoIC faculty, staff, and students (with faculty or staff sponsor)
- Support for PHP and arbitrary CGI programming (python, perl, etc)
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Dedicated Virtual Machines | Various | Research and Project Pages | SoIC | - Complete flexibility in configuration and services offered
- Ideal for research projects needing custom web environments that do not fit into the standard services
- Cost may be subsidized by SoIC
| - Requires funding source for larger or multiple VMs
- Moderate maintenance overhead
- Cannot be used for sensitive data without special approval
| Virtual Machine Policy |
Dedicated Research Servers | Various | Research and Project Pages | SoIC | - Complete flexibility in configuration and services offered
- Ideal for research projects needing custom web environments, high computational needs, etc
| - Requires funding source to purchase server
- High maintenance overhead
- Cannot be used for sensitive data without special approval
| How do I ask for help with a technology or facilities issue? |