Web hosting

With Geocities closing, where do BT customers go for their free web-hosting?
http://view.btemailsonline.com/2009/06/29/geocities_...

Or do we all have to pay an extra £5 per month for web hosting now

Edited by deleted (Mon 06-Jul-09 14:48:14)

Well when I signed up for BT Total Broadband the 15MB of web hosting space was advertised and as far as I was aware part of the contract, I've never been told otherwise when I have extended it, only told things will continue as they are.

Anybody looking to leave BT, it's your get out of jail card. Contract me would not longer be valid.

I still have my original web hosting from back in the BT OpenWorld days - can't remeber if it stopped at 50Mb or 150Mb of space in the end and no useage limits lol...

Wonder how long that will continue being supported.

ftp.btinternet.com.
Username = primary email
password = primary email pword.

In reply to a post by cjgpers:

With Geocities closing, where do BT customers go for their free web-hosting?
http://view.btemailsonline.com/2009/06/29/geocities_...

Or do we all have to pay an extra £5 per month for web hosting now

How many ISPs give you free web space these days anyway? A few years back most of them did, but with all the free social websites around and a couple of free website hist is it really worth it?

The same with email, most people would be better off with getting something like a Yahoo or Livemail address, you can take that with you if you move providers and if you want a bit more, then you can pay a few quid a year to get your own domain and email service.


Back to web hosting, you can even get a small site for a small amount a month if you need to.

TBH, I think it is about time ISPs just did what they are suppose to do now and provide access to the net, I am with Bt, but I don't use their BT yahoo stuff.

In reply to a post by cjgpers:

With Geocities closing, where do BT customers go for their free web-hosting?
http://view.btemailsonline.com/2009/06/29/geocities_...

Or do we all have to pay an extra £5 per month for web hosting now

If you're actually using web hosting/space it's probably easier to buy some proper hosting services.

dream-hosting.co.uk is 10 quid a year for the basic package

I've also found this company quite good....(no connection I'm just a user!)

http://order.1and1.co.uk/xml/order/Hosting;jsessioni...

Also Purple Cloud.

I am not with BT for my broadband but I have set up a website for a chum who has BT Internet web space.

Does anyone know if this will be going. As far as I know he is not on Geocities but his web space was from old BT Openworld dial-up days.

Hi - actually the £2.99 BT hosting offer is actually really good if you compare what you get for the money. 5GB webspace, a domain name, about 400 templates, blogs, support etc. Ang probably a lot more secure than going for a "free" product! And its a proper hosting product.

Not even the price of a big mac and fries!!
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Edited by LSCUE_H (Tue 14-Jul-09 15:39:22)