Resources to host a Website for a Research Lab

You have several options for hosting a website. What you end up choosing depends on your specific needs. If you need assistance, please contact our Helpdesk to request speaking with one of us.

• Contacting our Helpdesk
  • email: helpdesk@socsci.uci.edu
  • phone: (949) 824-1536
  • office location: Social Science Plaza B, room 1288, the first floor suite.

Please keep in mind that our office does not provide assistance with creating your website, content or design. If you choose one of the options below hosted by Social Sciences, we will assist you with account creation and server-side configuration. You are responsible for the site creation yourself, or contracting with another third-party to do so.

• Overview of OIT's web hosting options
• Sites@UCI
• OIT Virtual Server Hosting
• EEE websites

• Free Social Science Domain account: You can have a website like www.socsci.uci.edu/~username/ which is good for simple file hosting and basic websites, but requires you to create the site from scratch. There is also limited PHP support, but no database or server writable directories allowed. You will have
• Virtual Server Hosting - similar to OIT's option above, we charge $25-$35 per month to run a virtual machine, which can be used to host your website. With this option, you can install any coding language and environment that you want, including databases and writable directories. The virtual machine is a completely independent system with which you can run any software you like. This is best when you need greater flexibility or computational power.
• Physical Server Hosting in one of our dedicated Data Centers. Depending on your server's needs, we may be able to provide rack space for a server that you purchase in our air-conditioned and UPS protected server rooms. Please contact us to consult about this option.

You can choose to contract with any third-party website provider or hosting solution. We can assist you with setting up your domain name so that you still have a website in the “socsci.uci.edu” domain, like mylab.socsci.uci.edu.