Beginning July 1, NDSU faculty, staff and departments have a new option for putting Web content online. The new PubWeb service provides an option for hosting basic and enhanced Web sites. The service will replace the “WebDev” system, which will continue to function at least through June 2010. No new WebDev accounts will be created after July 1.

There is no charge for a basic PubWeb site, which includes 50 megabytes of storage. However, additional storage space for Web content will cost $2.10 per gigabyte per year.
Current WebDev users may have their existing Web address transferred to PubWeb when they switch to the new Web system.

The NDSU Enterprise Computing and Infrastructure – the department in the Information Technology Division that handles networking, servers and online services – developed the PubWeb service.

PubWeb will supplement the TYPO3 content-management system that is used by departments across campus.

“The TYPO3 content-management system has been an important tool that has worked well for most departments to publish content online, but we realize that it doesn’t meet every need,” said Jim Ross, application development specialist.

The basic hosting plan for PubWeb is available to departments, faculty, staff and students (with a faculty sponsor) at no charge and allows sites to be created using HTML, PHP, Perl and JavaScript technologies.

An enhanced hosting option also is available for $150 per year that will include access by multiple authors as well as use of the MySQL database system.

To learn more about the new service, sign up for an account, or to download the Hosting Agreement and Terms of Service, visit www.ndsu.edu/eci/publicwebhosting.