1 year's free web hosting and domain name for students

baz^

Hey, just heard that digiweb is giving a this free for a year, if you're a student and you sign up with your college email address:

* FREE Domain name and hosting
* MySQL & PostgresQL Database support
* PHP v4 & Perl CGI scripting
* Email Access - Webmail, POP3 or IMAP
* 2 GB diskspace with FTP access
* 15 GB transfer per month

Sounds good! :-D

linky

[and no, I don't work for them, just thought it was cool!]

xebec

Already done, think it was mentioned here but no harm highlighting it again.

Everyone should sign up if they have any interest at all!

baz^

oh right, sorry, my bad, I didn't catch it last time!

King.Penguin

has anyone heard back from digiweb about this? I signed up but haven't got a mail back

Crash

takes a couple of days - think they handcheck all the domain names to ensure you're not getting www.digiwebsuckknob.com or something like that.

proud owner of www.mcgoughn.net

europerson

I signed up and got a mail back a few days ago. It'll be something to do during the summer: watch this space!

xebec

Yep, got mine a few days ago. www.stephenmkerr.com

Bah!

xebec

Myth wrote:

Bah!

I knew it had been posted here

John

Deadly.

I just got www.donalmccormack.com. Couldn't think of anything else to get, tbh.

King.Penguin

where the frig is mine.

John

and mine. Actually I'm in no rush.

Newb

According to the whois records on these domains, DigiWeb owns them completely.

Yep. I'm not really bothered. I'm going to be using it just to play around with over the next year.

Newb

Myth wrote:

Yep. I'm not really bothered. I'm going to be using it just to play around with over the next year.

The problem is that you are now stuck with DigiWeb. You cannot transfer your domain over to another registrar or change settings - such as NS servers. They own the domain (in the eyes of ICANN).

King.Penguin

i should have read the small print

John

Me too. Ah well, it's not the end of the world.

King.Penguin

yeah Armageddon is

John

No silly, that's a movie

King.Penguin

is that the one with liv tyler? I think that summer about 10 films came out about rogue asteroids and ****

John

And none of them were good. I think this thread has been suitably derailed. Time for bed!

Crash

On the domain ownership - digiweb may own them, but when do they expire?

xebec

&#231 wrote: »

On the domain ownership - digiweb may own them, but when do they expire?

One year from when they were created.

Newb

It's a good business plan:
* Get you invested in your domain over the first year, so you never want to abandon it.
* Charge huge markups to keep your domain renewed.

You have to use their hosting service, as they control the NS server entries and they own the domain, so you can never move to a cheaper registrar.

Overall, you're at their mercy.

Buhaahaaaaa (Evil laugh emoticon)

Nietzschean

Thats amazingly alarmist, you have no idea what the hell the intend on doing with the domains, they may very well just let you have them after a year as odds are they arn't worth crap.

Newb

Nietzschean wrote:

Thats amazingly alarmist, you have no idea what the hell the intend on doing with the domains, they may very well just let you have them after a year as odds are they arn't worth crap.

They won't let you "have them" because you must pay the renewal fee or ICANN with delete the name completely. ICANN must get the money from somebody and I doubt DigiWeb are going to cough up.

Alarmist? This coming from a guy called Nietzschean.

zAbbo

as the domain and hosting package are worth around 50 euro, it's not going to break the bank to renew after the 1 year.

No big conspiracy here, just a good deal

Newb

Yeah, you are probably right. There is no way of telling at the moment whether it is a deal or not. I just don't like them having their name on the domain name lease.

regi

Newb wrote:

It's a good business plan:
* Get you invested in your domain over the first year, so you never want to abandon it.
* Charge huge markups to keep your domain renewed.

You have to use their hosting service, as they control the NS server entries and they own the domain, so you can never move to a cheaper registrar.

Overall, you're at their mercy.

Buhaahaaaaa (Evil laugh emoticon)

<Digiweb Hat>

Mostly wrong, I'm afraid. We do have our information on the domain, but that's mainly because most people don't want theirs on there (bar the email) and it was _easier_ to do it this way.

As I've said in a few different places, after the year is up, you can renew it with us, or contact us and we'll update the contact information and give you the EPP code so you can renew it elsewhere. And even if you do renew it with us, if you check our domain prices, they definately do not have huge markups in them. Go on - check

Nice image though. Also, I never thought I'd need to defend the concept of 'free' and 'no catches'.

Newb

regi wrote:

<Digiweb Hat>

Mostly wrong, I'm afraid. We do have our information on the domain, but that's mainly because most people don't want theirs on there (bar the email) and it was _easier_ to do it this way.

As I've said in a few different places, after the year is up, you can renew it with us, or contact us and we'll update the contact information and give you the EPP code so you can renew it elsewhere. And even if you do renew it with us, if you check our domain prices, they definately do not have huge markups in them. Go on - check

Nice image though. Also, I never thought I'd need to defend the concept of 'free' and 'no catches'.

Seems like too much fuss to leave once you have joined. Well, thanks for the reply anyway.

regi

Not really - if we set personalised info from day one, we'd just be a place giving away free domain names. Sign up, transfer away - no thanks

Newb

I can see your point of view, but can you see mine. Anyway, I give up, you win.
I understand, you are a business that needs to make money.

I have exams coming up and assignments to be handed in, so I give up.

Thanks Regi.

Decay666

Anyone else getting really irritating Digiweb banners in the corner of there page?

Time Magazine

We're all getting them.

John

Worse, I'm getting annoying webpages because I'm not quite sure what I'm doing on the site building front.

Time Magazine

What did you register John, old boy?

John

furyoftim.com

Nietzschean

it seems to work fine?

Decay666

But the banners on my page are massive?!it's strange depending on the computer i'm on the banner size changes.In work there fine and small but in college or of a friends computer there giant?

Creamy Goodness

woudn't have anything to do with the resolution of the monitors?

John

Nietzschean wrote:

it seems to work fine?

I'm just upset that the site editor is crap and I can't design websites for ****. However, I hopefully will have a really good web designer who will work for gin...

Nietzschean

John wrote:

I'm just upset that the site editor is crap and I can't design websites for ****. However, I hopefully will have a really good web designer who will work for gin...

there are a multitude of other web editors you should look at, can just upload what you've done then. Dreamweaver, frontpage, even word, then there is OS X ones, google even have one, etc...

cianclarke

John wrote:

I'm just upset that the site editor is crap and I can't design websites for ****. However, I hopefully will have a really good web designer who will work for gin...

I'll work for €300 worth of a certain spirit.