SCN: Homestead - no more free websites

[Kenneth Applegate]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, patrick wrote:

> Randy,
> 
> What I mean is: If someone walked in off the street wanted an SCN
> account and website, they could have one for free. Such as in:
> 
> http://www.scn.org/~heidimo/
> 
> This person has a free website on SCN. That is the scope of my
> definition.
> 

Well, for totally free, it would be more like http://www.scn.org/~bx123/
because free accounts get assigned names under the scheme used by the
Freeport user interface. People can get "vanity" accounts for a donation
[$25?] and choose their own account name.

But either type of user account gets created with a
/home/<acctname>/work/public_html directory which the web server responds
to as www.scn.org/~<acctname>. I don't know how much you have looked at
the Freeport menu interface, but there are tools there for working with
files in your public_html directory. 


> When I mean free, they can have a site and other people can go to it.
> But they will have hell to pay when doing file transfers. So it may
> as well be free. Or free, but not worth it, because everyday users
> don't have ftp access.
> 
> So wouldn't it be great if SCN had FTP for the average Joe. If the
> SCN hosting was done elsewhere, could we have secure FTP that way?

Hosting done elsewhere? As in using a commercial name redirection service? 
The astronomy club has been doing that since last spring - we got a domain
name registerd through a service called namesecure.com, which sets up
redirection so that "http://seattleastro.org" points to
"http://www.scn.org/sastro/sas.html", our home page. Except for the cost,
this has some nice advantages - (1) absolutely nothing has to be done on
the scn end. (2) they throw in email redirection, so that
just-about-anything at seattleastro.org winds up in the mailbox of
xx004 at scn.org, our standard Freeport ip account. So, I have email
inquiries directed with a "mailto:info at seattleastro.org". 


Ken Applegate

> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> --- Randy Groves <randy at scn.scn.org> wrote:
> > 
> > We do not have free hosting - if I interpret this to mean that we
> > provide
> > aliases for web sites.  For instance, a pointer that would connect
> > www.thisisapersonalwebsite.com to scn.org.
> > 
> > But if this isn't what you meant, then we'll need to do another
> > iteration
> > of definitions to make a determination ...
> > 
> > -randy
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, patrick wrote:
> > 
> > > I need to clarify that SCN does have free hosting. But it does
> > not
> > > have easy to use FTP uploading of files.
> > >
> > > Just imagine if SCN had both free hosting and easy-to-use
> > FTP...Like
> > > Rod said, we'd drive traffic and more donations and volunteers.
> > >
> > > Yes, performance would take a hit, but no reason why SCN's
> > hosting
> > > has to be in one location. Partnering with Speakeasy???
> > >
> > > Patrick
> > >
> > >
> > 
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