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See my other reply--you can probably get Bluehost (Provo lol) to sponsor some server time or little VPSes for people to play with.

I think the idea of lecture + lab is exactly the right way to play this.

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I'd love to teach Git and Github but I think that'll a bit complicated for the non-CS majors.

And I like the web hosting idea. Who are the non-evil web hosts and registrar's nowadays?

Do you think we should just go with one and encourage them to FTP everything?

See if you could get your university to give you some web space and FTP access. It'd be the cheapest route.

dkuntz has the right idea--if BU IT can hook you guys up with a box that'd be ideal:

https://it.byu.edu/byu/help.do?&sysparm_document_key=kb_know...

My alma mater gave everyone Unix accounts with public www folders by default, but I don't know if that's the case for you guys.

Tell the kids to use FTP, SCP, or whatever is easiest--test it out yourself and get it working. FTP can be quite easy, but make sure you can walk them through whatever workflow you decide on.

Also, you might have better luck talking to the administration over the IT guys. My experience with IT guys has been "the policy must be followed... Unless someone higher up says otherwise".

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