MSU IT Web Hosting offers MSU units and MSU-affiliated organizations the ability to put their websites online with an approved domain name of their choice. MSU IT manages the web hosting account setup and routine system tasks.
Customers manage their website content and/or application code while MSU IT manages daily system administration (including nightly backups), monthly log file rotation, and server upgrades.
Two environments are available to meet specific customer needs:
Web Hosting (UNIX Environment)
This web hosting option sets a website up as a virtual host on a MSU IT server in the Computer Center Data Center. Most websites use this option to host websites using content management systems such as Cascade, WordPress, or Drupal.
Web hosting includes:
- CPanel administrative interface
- 2 GB storage on a LAMP stack server (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Option to protect all or part of your site with MSU NetID/password authentication using Shibboleth authentication
- SFTP access via SSH or other SFTP clients
- CGI scripting with PHP and PERL
- Option to secure your site with SSL
Please note that F5 Load balancer services are not available on the web hosting (UNIX Environment).
Pricing
$10 per month, plus the initial $50 setup fee. Additional storage is $8.64/GB per year.
