Website Hosting
As part of its commitment to assisting churches and Christian groups to develop and improve their communications, Commskit, the internet arm of the Beds and Herts Churches’ Media Trust, offers a complete domain, web and email internet package.
There are two packages:
- Commskit 100: designed to meet the needs of the majority of churches and groups
- Commskit UL: for organisations with greater requirements
Both packages include:
- Your own unique, UK-based domain
- Control panel for managing your account
- Unlimited bandwidth (subject only to ‘fair play’, usually understood to mean using only tactics that are in accord with the spirit of the activity)
- Unlimited email redirection facilities
- Multiple email addressing
- Automatic ‘out of office’ response
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Commskit 100 |
Commskit UL |
Web space |
100 Mb |
Unlimited |
POP3 email addresses |
1,000 |
Unlimited |
Price per annum |
£45 |
£125 |
Email help with setup |
Free |
Free |
MS FrontPage Extensions (per annum) |
£12 |
£12 |
Extra UK domain registration (first included in package) (per annum) |
£8.50 |
£8.50 |
Top level domain, eg, .org, .com, .net (per annum) |
£15.50 |
£15.50 |
‘Spam Buster’ spam filtering (per annum) |
£25 |
£25 |
Existing domain transfer-in |
No Charge |
No charge |
Annual renewal of first UK domain registration |
Included in package |
Included in package |
Servers
Windows and UNIX / Linux Servers are available for both packages:
Windows servers were the first available and provide sterling service for the majority of our hosted websites. They offer a range of scripting facilities for those who want to build advanced websites including Active Server Pages (using .asp files), Common Gateway Interface (.cgi files) and Microsoft Access Databases.
For a small additional annual charge (which our supplier charges us and we pass on without a mark-up) FrontPage Extensions can be installed on Windows accounts. Microsoft FrontPage is a web-authoring programme which combines designing and writing web pages with uploading them to the server. Pages can also be uploaded to these servers using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) programmes.
More recently, Commskit brought Unix/Linux servers into operation and they are increasingly used to provide innovative services using .php scripts and MySQL databases as well as .cgi and all the basic web hosting facilities. Pages are normally uploaded to these servers using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) programmes.
