First of I would like to bring up that this is a fully dynamic site that is using CMS made simple as the backend. My initial thought was to make this site static, but if it's static it makes it that much harder to change. And I'm pretty lazy so I didn't want to take that route because mucking around in code evertime you want to change the content is a big pain. So anyway, I figured out the Computer Science web servers are running PHP v5 which made me super happy, especially since it's my web language of choice. I then realized that I would have to link to my mysql databases on my dreamhost servers if I wanted a database. So I did that, and found out I had to add cs.iusb.edu to a list of allowed servers in order for me to connect. So I did that and next I had major issues with permissions. Apparently my umask was set to 077 which really screwed things up when I unpacked anything into my web directory. So I fixed that by changing umask 077 to umask 022 in my .cshrc file in my home directory. After that I could install cms made simple just fine and used my dreamhost account to host my database. So now I am able to install and run just about anything that uses php and mysql on here. That makes me pretty excited.
Well basically I just wanted to do this because I can. And the fact that it's a free host makes it even cooler, except for the databases. Also any links coming from a .edu domain are pretty valuable, so i'm going to use this domain for SEO purposes also.