About the Service
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Faculty and researchers are strongly encouraged to consult with Web Services, Office of Communications and Marketing (OCM) when they require a website for their research lab or for presenting a faculty profile. On-Premise Web Hosting allows faculty, staff and students, departments or research labs to host personal, department, or research lab websitesis not intended for course-related content (syllabus, course files, etc.). Faculty are provided other file storage options and options to provide materials to students: Brightspace and Individual File Storage Options, for example. |
Features:
ITS provides web hosting only—the website owner is responsible for development, management, and design of the hosted website.
These spaces are not meant to be used to provide students with course-related content, such as syllabi or other course-related materials. Faculty are strongly encouraged to use Bright Space for course-related website
Faculty have access to otherwebsite or other r File Storage and Collaboration resources
: Individual File Storage Options https://albany.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/askit/pages/52331413/File+Storage+and+Collaboration+Tools#Individual-File-Storage-that have been provided to them: Individual File Storage Options
Faculty and researchers are strongly encouraged to consult with Web Services, Office of Communications and Marketing (OCM) about their services
Owners of web sites hosted in On-Premise web hosting should not expect website development, management, or design from OCMApplications, including CMS applications (such as WordPress, etc.), should not be hosted in these directories
If it is necessary to host application, Research Storage spaces may be more appropriate
Third party web sites cannot be hosted in these directories
Events or conference websites, not sponsored by UAlbany, should not be hosted in these directories and Web Services, Office of Communications and Marketing (OCM) should be consulted before creating a website in these spaces to support events, conferences or on-going research projects.
Access to directories can be requested for specific staff or students, submit an ITS Service Desk ticket.
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
Use-cases:
Need to create a website for personal, department, research lab purposes
Public-facing website for a UAlbany sponsored project, committee, or working group. (For sites that do not need to be publicly-accessible, a SharePoint site may be more appropriate and easier to manage and update.)
Lifecycle
Sites are discontinued based on different criteria. Please review the On-Premise Web Hosting Options for more information
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