Webhosting – Entscheidungshilfen
Overview
| Serviced web hosting service | If you need a website for your research project, chair, department, or thesis, the serviced web hosting service is probably the right choice. Within the serviced web hosting service, you may host static web pages or PHP-based web applications. Use of this service is free of charge and is available for members of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Technische Universität München (TUM), and Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BAdW). You may incur additional costs in case you want to get your own second-level domain. |
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| Managed server service | If the serviced web hosting service is not suitable for your needs, a Linux-based managed server might work for you. This kind of server allows you to install almost any application. However, this also means that you will have to take care of most things yourself. In the following section "Web hosting service vs. Managed server service" you will find a concise comparison of these two LRZ services. You will be charged for using this service. |
| Personal homepage service | If you need a website only for yourself, a website in the serviced web hosting service will probably be more than you need. For these cases, LRZ offers personal homepages where you can host a website with static HTML pages (no PHP scripting possible). Use of Javascript is still possible since it is executed from within your web browser. In the section "Web hosting versus personal homepage" below you will find a comparison of the most important differences. A personal homepage can only be used with a personal LRZ ID. Unfortunately, it is not possible to receive a personal homepage with a TUM ID, LMU ID, etc. This service is available free of charge. |
Serviced web hosting service vs. Managed server service
In our serviced web hosting service the LRZ webhosting team takes care of the maintenance of the PHP-based hosting environment and the underlying operating system. Your responsibility lies in installing your desired web application and keeping it current. Our serviced web hosting service currently only supports PHP-based applications. If the application you would like to install needs other programming languages and frameworks (like for example Python and Django, or Ruby and Ruby on Rails), it will not be possible to host your application with our serviced web hosting service.
If the latter is the case, a managed server might be what you are looking for. A Linux-based managed server will allow you to install almost any application. However, this also means that you will have to take care of most things yourself. You can find more information about this on the page "Managed Server".
A word of warning: Before requesting a website or server, we ask that you make sure that regular maintenance (like installing updates for your web application) will take place over the entire life time of your website. It is vital that applications be protected from security vulnerabilities which might result in unwanted access to your website and possible data leaks. This applies to web hosting in general, but especially if you use your own server because you will not only be responsible for keeping your web application current, but for maintaining the entire operating system that your web application runs on.
See the table below for a concise overview of the differences between our serviced web hosting service and the managed server service.
| Serviced web hosting service | Managed server service | |
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| Apache and PHP installed and maintained by | LRZ | You |
SSL certificate issued and maintained by | LRZ | You |
| HTTP logs by | LRZ | You |
| Support for Java, Ruby, Python etc. | No | Yes (installation and maintenance done by you) |
| Fees | Usually free of charge | Fees apply |
Serviced web hosting service vs. personal homepage service
If you need a website only for yourself, a website in the serviced web hosting service will probably be more than you need. For these cases, LRZ offers personal homepages where you can host a website with static pages (no PHP scripting possible).
| Personal homepage | Serviced website | |
|---|---|---|
| Domain name | <desired name>.userweb.mwn.de | domain name mostly free to choose (limitations by your organisation may apply) |
| PHP possible? | no | yes |
| Storage space | 2 GB | 10 GB (more storage space available if needed) |
| Type of account | personal LRZ account | functional account |
| Backup | daily, no direct access possible | daily, direct access partly possible |
| Registration/deletion | LRZ IDM portal (Identity management portal) | |
| Fees | Free of charge | Free of charge (fees may apply if you'd like to get your own domain) |