Differences between IU Sitehosting and Pages

IU Sitehosting is for official IU business related to your organizational unit, research, instructional, academic, approved professional organization, or registered student group. IU Sitehosting hosts the university gateway and regional campus websites as well as thousands of other websites related to official IU business. Accounts on IU Sitehosting have access to subservices and utilities not available through Pages. IU Sitehosting is the central service for University web pages. Accounts on IU Sitehosting 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 IU Sitehosting and Pages:

Feature	IU Sitehosting	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 (default), 8.1, 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.