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Set up a webserver yourself

It's possible to set up a webserver yourself on your own server, but keep a few important side-effects in mind, which mostly make we have to advise against it to do so:

• You are responsible for your own maintenance, backup, security problems with the server. The responsible, in some cases, has a temporary contract and maintaining the server is not his/her fulltime job (e.g. assistant). Keep in mind that continuity is not ensured for the future.
• There are a whole lot of security problems with "self-set-up-servers". Within DICT a team is responsible for the setting up and maintenance of servers, and the continuity is ensured.
• The implementing of a central firewall is hampered if servers are set up here and there. This also creates security risks for others within UGent.

Remark

• The registering of a domain outside UGent (e.g. www.XYZ.be) and making it point to a server within UGent is not allowed, unless for academic use in which UGent is involved. In this case, contact the helpdesk DICT for concrete information.
  
• You have your own service running, for which a certificate is needed.

  In that case, your certificate can be signed by our CA. How this can be done, is described on this webpage (only accessible from within the UGent domain).