Web Hosting Options

Web Hosting Options

IU Blogs

  • No cost blog hosting
  • Familiar Wordpress hosting
  • Disappears when you leave IU
  • Cannot be used for sensitive data

IU Pages

  • 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

Luddy CGI/PHP Server

  • No cost web hosting
  • Available to Luddy faculty, staff, and students
  • Support for PHP and arbitrary CGI programming (python, perl, etc)
  • Shared storage space with your Luddy Linux account home directory so limited to disk quota
  • Cannot be used for sensitive data
  • Disappears when you leave IU

 

ServicePros and Cons
IU Sitehosting
  • https://groupname.sitehost.iu.edu
  • https://projectname.luddy.indiana.edu
  • https://projectname.indiana.edu
  • https://projectname.iu.edu
IU Windows Hosting Environment (WHE)
  • https://projectname.webhost.iu.edu
  • https://projectname.luddy.indiana.edu
  • https://projectname.indiana.edu
  • https://projectname.iu.edu
  • 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
Dedicated Research Servers
  • 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
Dedicated Virtual Machines
  • 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 Luddy
  • Requires funding source for larger or multiple VMs
  • Moderate maintenance overhead
  • Cannot be used for sensitive data without special approval
Course Homepages and Syllabus Hosting
  • http://homes.ludy.indiana.edu/courses/courseName
  • No cost web hosting
  • Available to Luddy course instructors
  • Allows for the upload of course syllabi for automatic inclusion into the Luddy Course History Pages pages
  • Provides historic record of course information
  • Can only be used for Luddy classes
  • Cannot be used for sensitive data
IU Enterprise Confluence
  • https://uisapp2.iu.edu/confluence-prd/display/projectname
  • http://projectname.luddy.indiana.edu/ (redirect)
  • 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

Guide information

Guide manager: Michael Daniels
Last updated: June 2023