Welcome to Community Hosts
Welcome to Community Hosts. The online provider for free community-based websites.
Do you run a local organisation, sports club, recreational club? Do you play in a band? Are you involved in the local Parish or Town Council? Ever fancied setting up a website for your local village or town? What about a charity website or even your own personal blog.
The Internet is a fantastic environment and these days it is not that difficult to get started online. Many people still seem to think that you need to pay large sums of money to have a website, or vast technical ability. Well, whilst that might be the case for some – for the majority it is not.
Creating a clean, usable and informative website can be a 5 minute process – done from within your own home; and for FREE. Read on and take a look around to find out more.
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What do we do?
Here at Community Hosts we are dedicated on offering low cost (from FREE!) web hosting for you or your charity/organisation/club etc.
We do this by using existing products and services which are already tried and trusted by others. We utilise one of the Internet’s largest providers (byethost.com) to provide free and robust web hosting to our members. The servers we use are secure, powerful and already hosting hundreds of thousands of websites across the globe.
Once you sign up you will immediately have access to create and manage your website, using our tools. Whether you want to create a simple or large website, all the tools and software are in the same place. In conjunction to web hosting we’ll continue to bring together some of the Internet’s best resources to use alongside your web presence to increase your exposure and maybe generate some money.
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What do you get from us?
When you sign-up at Community Hosts you get a-lot! Enough to take you where you need to go, and probably beyond – all for FREE!
300MB of space to store your files; 10GB of traffic to and from your site; 7 MySQL Databases to store data and host complex applications; 6 add-on or parked domains to further extend your website.
You get access to your files 24/7 via FTP and our Vista Panel which allows you to manage and control every aspect of your site.
Within Vista Panel you have links to our Website Builder which helps you create websites from scratch as well as our iVista which will automatically install and configure a large selections of applications for you (such as WordPress, Joomla, WebCalendar, PHP Nuke, and others).
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What is the ‘catch’?
Your mum always said, "You can get nothing in this life for free!" so what is the catch with this? A website for free on Community Hosts when others are looking to charge me a monthly free to do it! Well at Community Hosts we aim to be fair, open and honest. So what do we get from this? Well part of reason that we do this is because we know what it is like (we have done it!) and we do it because we can and we also want to give something back. There is also a small commercial goal – which is to try and generate some income to support what we are doing.
We look to try and do that in several ways. Firstly by acting as affiliates to other companies and offering you products and services that we ourselves use; that might benefit you. Secondly by generating some advertising revenue on the sites that we host (by placing one discrete banner advert on the bottom of your site). And thirdly by donations from yourselves – because you like what we do, or simply want to remove the banner advert from your site.
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What do I do next?
In order to sign-up to Community Hosts all you need to do is head over to the Sign Up page and enter your details. All we need is your name, your email address, the password that you want to use and a quick understand of what type of use you want to use the site for. Once you have entered that and proceeded through a quick validation to prove that you are human (!) we will then send you an email so that you can activate your account.
If you do not receive the email – then please check that it has not been caught up in any spam folders that you might have.
Once you have activated your account – you are free to login and start creating your site. If you have any questions then please head over to the forums where hopefully someone can help you; or get in contact with us and we will see what we can do for you.
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