On-Premise Web Hosting Options
Offers individuals, faculty, departments, and research labs the ability to create and maintain a website.
Note: Consult https://albany.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/askit/pages/52379506 for more information about the appropriate use of these web hosting options.
Personal Website
URL: https://www.albany.edu/~NetID
Available to: Faculty, staff, and students to support teaching and learning related activities
Size/Quota: 200 MB
Discontinued: automatically when owners leave the University
Faculty Website
URL: https://www.albany.edu/faculty/~NetID or https://www.albany.edu/faculty/<specially-requested-name>
Faculty are provided other file storage options and options to provide materials to students: Brightspace, for Individual File Storage or for Research storage, for example.
ITS provides web hosting only—the website owner is responsible for development, management, and design of the hosted website. Available to: Faculty
Size/Quota: 100 MB--Files stored in Faculty website spaces that require increases in size should be hosted in other offerings (see above). These spaces are not meant to host files or other content that should be stored in other storage options which are already singificantly larger
How to request: ITS Service Desk Ticket
Discontinued: automatically purged when faculty leave UAlbany
Department Websites
URL: Â https://www.albany.edu/<specially-requested-name>
Available to: Departments, must have a designated owner
Size/Quota: none
How to request: ITS Service Desk ticket
Discontinued when designated owner requests or when no activity 2+ years
Research Websites
URL: Â https://www.albany.edu/<specially-requested-name>
Available: primarily for faculty labs
Size/Quota: 100 MB
How to request: ITS Service Desk Ticket
Discontinued when designated owner requests or site has been inactive for 2+ years
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Related:
All websites must be in compliance with the Responsible Use of Information Technology Policy
All websites must be in compliance with the Principles of Professionalism, Ethics and Compliance