Hosting & domain names

Hosting choices

If you wish to host a website at Heriot-Watt University, you have three options:

  1. Websites built using the University Content Management System (CMS) will be centrally hosted in the IT data centre.
  2. Websites not on the CMS will be hosted in the IT data centre or on school managed web servers.
  3. Shared partner project websites may be hosted externally on other institution or commercial hosted servers.

Domain names

The options to name and promote your website at Heriot-Watt University are:

  1. Main website address, e.g., http://www.hw.ac.uk/youralias/ or http://www.hw.ac.uk/level1/level2/mysite/. This can be a short alias or the true full path to the web page.
  2. Subdomain address, e.g., http://mysite.hw.ac.uk .
  3. Purchase dedicated .ac.uk/.org/.co.uk/.com address dependent on purpose of website. 

The web team assists with domain name selection and purchasing, and would appreciate contact at the earliest stage of your project to arrange the domain name.