Website hosting is no longer available through Technologies in Education, however some hosting options are still available through central services (IST).
Faculties, departments and a short list of centrally acknowledged Centres can use the central Cascade content management system to host their websites; contact us if you need help determining whether you qualify. Other groups (e.g. internal administrative teams) should use Google Sites.
Researchers can use Google Sites or IST’s central Apache/WordPress service. Many Education research groups are using the Apache service to host Wordpress sites, in some cases using their own non-ualberta domain names. However, the future of this service is under review and this should not be considered a permanent solution. Support for these sites is limited to updating all plug-ins and themes on a nightly basis. Users must also agree to install the WordFence plug-in to ensure that their site is as secure as possible from external security attacks. If a site is compromised, IST will shut it down until the security issue is resolved.
All staff can create static websites under their “AFS” space.
Feature
Cascade
Google Sites
Apache/WordPress
AFS Space
U of A style template
Yes
No
No
No
Custom Design
No
Limited
Yes
Yes
Choose a custom domain (e.g. mysite.ca)
No
Limited
Yes*
(Subject to Change)
No
(https://sites.ualberta.ca/~yourccid)
Hosting location
U of A Campus
Off campus
U of A Campus
U of A Campus
Support
Central
Tech in Ed can apply security updates
HTTPS (included)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Cost
Free
Free
Free (contact Tech in Ed)
Free
Availability
Limited to approved/central groups
All U of A users/groups
All (subject to approval)
All U of A users/groups
Please contact techined@ualberta.ca for more information and to discuss your options.