IT Services

University Central Web Hosting Services

University central web hosting service provides a set of standard hosting solutions for centrally managed web hosting under Linux and Windows environments. Department users or developers are able to securely transfer site content using their NetID and NetPassword to access specific subsections of their website. This infrastructure provides daily backups, security standards compliance, Web Application Firewall (WAF) Protection as well as support multi-domain websites. Performance and web traffic is continually monitored to maintain high levels of quality and performance.

University Portal Service

The University Portal (https://my.polyu.edu.hk), named ‘myPolyU’, is PolyU’s intranet web portal customized for staff and students to support their work /study life at PolyU. It is a platform for users to locate essential systems and information for conducting different activities. Staff and students can also learn about important upcoming events hosted by different departments. They are advised to log on to ‘myPolyU’ frequently to keep up with the latest events and information such as learning, teaching, research, administration, student and staff wellbeing, and to use it as a handy tool for locating the systems / websites that they need.

URL Redirection Service

Hitting an error page is never a good experience for a website user. The URL redirection service helps users to ensure all their web links published on external websites / papers are redirected to the right places after the website revamp.

URL Shortener Service

The PolyU URL Shortener is a URL shortening tool dedicated for web addresses under the PolyU domain (‘polyu.edu.hk’) and PolyU Office 365 (O365) including URLs of SharePoint Sites, OneDrive documents, Microsoft Forms and other O365 services provided by PolyU. With this service, the shortened URLs with the prefix ‘https://polyu.hk’ can be created. As such, the shortened URLs can be used in promotional and marketing materials, social media, etc. to make them easier to remember, facilitate sharing, increase click through rate, etc.

Website Creation Services

A website helps to promote the corporate’s branding and image and timely disseminate the latest information to targeted audiences. Our website creation service provides a wide range of IT advice and support to user departments, including: website creation advice for department website project Enterprise Web Content Management System (EWCMS) for standardization of departmental website with templates and components aligned with the university's branding and image cost-recovery charged service for website development and Express Web Development with ready-to-go templates for project website, conference website, etc.