We are pleased to make available to BYUH CIS students and alumni personal web accounts. These accounts are set up in certain classes and by request. You can keep them after the class is over.
To obtain an account, contact your teacher or one of the administrators (Scott Mikolyski or Bro Colton or webmaster at is2.byuh.edu). Most CIS faculty can create an account. Accounts may be used for school purposes, personal purposes (ie. family website) AND for business *prototyping* purposes, but NOT for actually conducting business. We encourage you to try out the various features of cPanel, including making your own blog, mailing lists, email accounts, etc.
The more skills and experience you have, the more employable and useful you become, and the more fun you will have. Although it is mainly for Computer and Infomation Sciences students and alumni, we are happy to provide accounts for other BYUH students of any major, as well as faculty and staff, as resources permit.
CIS cPanel hosting rules:
Policy: If something goes wrong with an account (password, bandwidth, no contact address, etc), we usually notify the owner by email, and eventually SUSPEND the account to prevent problems. When an account is suspended, we wait to hear from the owner. If we do not hear from the owner within a month, we consider the account to be abandoned and we will probably delete it.
Email: You must provide an email address for us to contact you as needed. Make sure it is one that you check regularly. We will verify it when your account is created, and monthly thereafter.
Renewals: Each month we will email you a renewal notice with a special URL. Just click through on the URL (or cut and paste it into a browser) to renew your account for another month. It takes about two seconds. If you don't renew after seven days, your email address will be considered invalid and your account will be suspended. You must maintain a valid contact email address to receive your renewal notice.
Passwords: Maintain a good password. On an ongoing basis, we run a password analysis program to check if anyone has weak, easily hackable passwords. If your password is discovered to be weak, we will warn you. If you do not correct it within a few days we will suspend your account. (Hackers hit this website hundreds of times per day looking for easy passwords. We don't want you to become a victim.)
Quotas: If you exceed your bandwidth quota, we will automatically suspend your account. The main purpose of this is to identify huge graphics, possible illegal files (popular downloads), and CGI program bugs (infinite loops). After reviewing your situation, we will most likely increase your quota. Of course you should not do anything illegal or improper.
eCommerce: Because of the license agreement, we are not allowed to run an actual ecommerce website on this host. You can design one, and set one up and "play" with it, but when you are ready to do any actual business, other arrangements need to be made.
If YOU notice anything that seems improper, please notify us so we can look into it and make corrections if necessary.
If someday we have to take down the server, we will do our best to let you know so you can move your stuff. Right now, we expect we can leave it up pretty much forever, but we'll see.