Differences between Sitehost and Pages

Sitehost is for official IU business related to your organizational unit, research, instructional, academic, approved professional organization, or registered student group. Sitehost hosts the university gateway and regional campus websites as well as thousands of other websites related to official IU business. Accounts on Sitehost have access to subservices and utilities not available through Pages. Sitehost is the central service for University web pages. Accounts on Sitehost are assigned to a group account and intended to be maintained by multiple users.

Pages is for an individual's professional, research, instructional, or academic web content. The URL is pages.iu.edu. You should not use Pages to share hobbies, family information, and favorite entertainment links or other purely personal content. Accounts on Pages are assigned to an individual user account and intended to be maintained by that single user.

This table compares some of the features included in Sitehost and Pages:

Feature	Sitehost	Pages
Apache	2.4	2.4
Connecting to server	SSH2, SFTP	SSH2, SFTP
E-commerce	Available	Not available
MySQL	8.0	Not available
Perl	5.26	5.26
PHP	8.0, 8.1 (default), 8.2	Not available
Python	3.7, 3.8, 3.9	3.7, 3.8, 3.9
Samba	Not available	Not available
Text editors	Nano, Pico, vi, vim, Emacs	Nano, Pico, vi, vim, Emacs
MachForm	Available	Not available
Virtual hostname	Available	Not available
Web usage reports	Not available	Not available

Note:

While Pages lets sites use script files, scripts cannot be run manually on the Pages SSH server.