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 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: 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. We do not provide any assistance with creating your content. 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 host a virtual machine which can be used to server your website. With this option, you can install any coding language and environment that you want, including databases and writable directories.
• 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.

In order to upload files to the server, you must either connect a mapped network drive or use an SFTP client.

We recommend the following SFTP clients:

1. WinSCP if you are using a Windows PC.
2. Fetch if you are using a Mac. Fetch requires a license, but if you login on that page with your UCInetID, it will show you the license information paid for and provided by OIT.

Then use these details to login:

• Server hostname: nexus.ss.uci.edu
• Protocol: SFTP
• Port: 22
• Username: the same as your UCInetID
• Password: your SS2K account password

When you are connected, one of the folders should be called “public_html”. This is where you need to upload files for them to show up on your personal website.

If you use a Desktop computer in your office connected to the SS2K domain, you can simply hit the Ctrl-Alt-Del keys and click “Change a Password” from the menu. Otherwise, you will need to use these steps (from a laptop or off-campus):

1. Download an SSH client, such as PuTTY
2. Connect to the server name “nexus.ss.uci.edu”
3. Login with your current username/password
4. Type passwd and press Enter; follow the prompts to change your password.
5. Type exit and press Enter to quit

1. Open the Terminal, in /Applications/Utilities/
2. Type ssh USERNAME@nexus.ss.uci.edu and press Enter
3. Type your current password when prompted
4. Type passwd and press Enter; follow the prompts to change your password
5. Type exit and press Enter to quit the SSH session

You may also come to the Helpdesk in person at SSPB 1288 to change your password. Please bring a Photo ID.