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echos 19-05-2004 03:35

Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
As a member of the Entity Hosting staff, we were thinking about offering free web hosting to a limited number of FIRST teams. This number has been undecided as well as the matter of wether we will be offering this service.

Considered package:
  • 250MB - 1 GB Hard Disk Space
  • 1 - 5 GB monthly bandwidth
  • PHP, Perl, JSP, SSI and some other stuff
  • 3 Domains
  • 25 - unlimited email addresses
  • Mailing list
  • Plesk 7 Control Pannel
  • FreeBSD
We are looking for input to this as it will possibly affect our descsion to offer such a package. Any I deas or thoughts please post them.

CyberWolf_22 19-05-2004 19:07

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
My team (647) has been looking into getting a web host sense there are to many restrictions on the schools website so we wanted to not use it. This would be a great service to a lot of teams if you can make it very easy to manage and set up as I know there are some teams that do not have any web building experience.

Bharat Nain 19-05-2004 20:10

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
It is definately something noble to do for teams who cant afford a website. I am sure there are teams who wish they had a website, but just had no money to buy a domain.. or some who host for free, with countless restrictions with places like tripod, geocities etc.

Noah 19-05-2004 20:23

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
My team would love to take you up on this, as our free hosting server is in the process of closing it's doors.. :-(

Pierson 19-05-2004 21:16

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
This looks great and a really nice offer. Just a FYI: Our team uses 4 e-mail lists, general, leadership, mentors, and parents.

But, this is free so I really shouldn't go around suggesting anything to make it better. However, I would say that you are probably more reliable than our current host, so we may move to you if you choose to open up this option.

miketwalker 19-05-2004 23:54

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
I'm sure that if you do this, teams will be very thankful... I know of many who have had issues getting the extra few dollars for hosting. This would help many of them out. Thanks for the contribution!

Joshua May 20-05-2004 00:02

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
This would be a great service to teams. Right now, my team is using Angelfire :( Really, all we would need would be about ~50 megs of space, 4-5 gb bandwidth, and PHP, JSP, and CGI abilities.

It would be really, REALLY cool of you could get something like this running.

echos 23-05-2004 00:37

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
Please keep posting ideas that you can think of. I like what I am seeing here.

We are looking at giving away 10-50 accounts on a first come basis. Some things to remember is that you will have to get your own domain or use a subdomain with us. Also you will probally may not be entitled to our technical support.

But, if you take a look at our site it will probally be a hybread of lite and standard packages.

http://www.entityhosting.com/

Guest 23-05-2004 01:14

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
This would be a great resource to many teams, mine included :)

It seems like PHP and CGI abilities would be most important, as most teems use PHP pages.

Would mySQL be included? Just asking.

Pierson 23-05-2004 02:32

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
I am not familar with the "Plesk 7 Control Panel" is that like a web based do everthing page? Like modify e-mail addresses, aliases, e-mail groups, set up sub-domains, etc?

This sounds very cool!

Just for my own ooo'ing and ah'ing, what kind of connection is this hosted off of? T1? T3?

indieFan 23-05-2004 14:42

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
Would we be able to set up our own forums using something like YaBB with cgi-bin access or what CD uses?

jonathan lall 23-05-2004 18:41

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
I have some good hosting already, but we are in need of some more space. I'd be very interested in some webspace at least.

echos 23-05-2004 22:17

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
Quote:

Would mySQL be included? Just asking.
Yes it would, along with PostgreSQL

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I am not familar with the "Plesk 7 Control Panel" is that like a web based do everthing page? Like modify e-mail addresses, aliases, e-mail groups, set up sub-domains, etc?
Plesk does allow you to control everything that you may need for you site such as batabases, subdomains, and mail and webmail.

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Would we be able to set up our own forums using something like YaBB with cgi-bin access or what CD uses?
Each account would support full server-side scripting such as Perl and PHP so there shouldn't be a problem with running a message board.

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Just for my own ooo'ing and ah'ing, what kind of connection is this hosted off of? T1? T3?
We have OC-47s from several providers such as SBC, AT&T, Sprint, and Level 3. You can look at our co-location providers website if you wish. http://castleaccess.com/network.htm

Guest 24-05-2004 00:09

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
Has this offer been approved by your company?
If so, do you know when you plan on making it available?
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Stu Bloom 24-05-2004 15:04

Re: Free hosting for FIRST team websites?
 
I do believe our team would be very grateful to have a service such as this. As I know very little about web page design/creation and/or hosting issues, I can't comment on the specific offering. But I know our web guys have been having difficulty with access to update/modify our current site because it is hosted by one of our sponsors, and the web team doesn't have any direct access.


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