SCN: Homestead - no more free websites

[Joe Mabel]

Similarly, the address we publicize for the Crisis Reource Directory is
www.seattlcrisis.org, which redirects to www.scn.org/crisis.

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Joe Mabel

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Kenneth Applegate wrote:

> 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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