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#162116 29-Jan-2015 18:21

The Vodafone website says that fixed line customers get free web hosting here

I am a cable customer, and CSRs appear to be having great difficulty in getting this activated for me as I don't prerequisite access to MyVodafone, as cable customers use Customer Zone to manage their accounts.

Is this at all possible? Is there a little asterisk next to 'fixed line broadband' that excludes cable broadband that I can't see?

Has anyone got this working?

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#1224889 29-Jan-2015 18:56

AFAIK this is for 'red' customers only on the old ihug/Vodafone system & Webhosting on the Telstra/Vodafone system is chargable

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#1224892 29-Jan-2015 19:01

Thanks for that. Do you rate my chances for getting a free Paradise.net homepage then?

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#1224894 29-Jan-2015 19:05

I would suggest you look at other spaces - Google Blogger, Medium, Wordpress and so on and you can get a lot more than a static HTML homepage space with a 30MB limit.

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Also think about having a page on a paradise.net.nz domain - it's not yours, won't rank well, if there's malware in other pages on this domain your site will be flagged too, etc, etc...

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#1224913 29-Jan-2015 19:29

Or buy some hosting, it isn't expensive, usually less thana cup of coffee a week for a good hosting provider. That way you can get your own domain too.

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#1225067 30-Jan-2015 07:20

Yeah I realise that it isn't the best option. I'm playing around with a lightweight web map system based on javascript and would like to share with colleagues. Criteria is that relative pathnames work for folders and subfolders, and it lets me upload the .html, which rules out the free web hosting platforms that I've tried.

I've cut cups of coffee out of the budget to save for a house, so the cup of coffee analogy doesn't work in this house :)

I've already got a domain, so was planning on setting up a subdomain with CNAME record pointing at the free host

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#1225085 30-Jan-2015 08:55

As Mauricio said, use one of the free platforms if you can. The web hosting platform at Vodafone is really pretty basic (HTML only) so javascript will not work. I feel a bit like a traitor for saying this, but the support if anything goes wrong can also be pretty hit and miss. I am not sure why we still offer it as a service tbh.

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#1225181 30-Jan-2015 10:38

Hi Nick

Thanks for the heads up. I've raised a ticket with the team suggesting the eligibility is made clearer and included a link to this discussion.

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#1225199 30-Jan-2015 10:46

nickb800: Yeah I realise that it isn't the best option. I'm playing around with a lightweight web map system based on javascript and would like to share with colleagues. Criteria is that relative pathnames work for folders and subfolders, and it lets me upload the .html, which rules out the free web hosting platforms that I've tried.

I've cut cups of coffee out of the budget to save for a house, so the cup of coffee analogy doesn't work in this house :)

I've already got a domain, so was planning on setting up a subdomain with CNAME record pointing at the free host

Talk to your boss about working remotely from a region where houses are affordable and have UFB available already? (That's what I did)

Alternatively, Github do free static hosting.

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#1225207 30-Jan-2015 10:55

Ooh GitHub looks good, thanks for the heads up.

Longer term a cheap region might be a good strategy for me

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#1225326 30-Jan-2015 13:09

nickb800: Ooh GitHub looks good, thanks for the heads up.

Longer term a cheap region might be a good strategy for me

It's what we did (Whanganui) and we're loving it. Especially good given we have small children -- if we'd stayed in Wellington and bought a house we'd be in Upper Hutt and my wife would be back at work. And the UFB rollout here is a month or two away from completion :-)

A friend of mine from Wellington who runs their own business is relocating to Marton -- they discovered that for the deposit they'd saved up ($60,000) they could just buy a house outright.

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#1225483 30-Jan-2015 16:58

VodafoneDylan:... I've raised a ticket with the team suggesting the eligibility is made clearer and included a link to this discussion.

We've now added to the page - "Free webspace is available to Vodafone customers with dial-up or broadband - you can activate it directly in My Vodafone. Not currently available to Vodafone Cable or UFB customers using customerzone."

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#1225582 30-Jan-2015 19:10

When did they get rid of the free webspace for Paradise customers? It's been a while since I had a Paradise account...

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#1225799 31-Jan-2015 11:36

I have purchased a vps that only costs $3 euro per year. Can host your own stuff on those low end vpses if you are sufficiently geeky enough to get apache working on a linux server. It's also handy to have a server based in the us.

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#1230160 3-Feb-2015 07:46

im a long term paradise customer and still have an active web space, and its fine for basic html pages that i host.

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#1230495 3-Feb-2015 13:14

As a beautiful ending to this thread and a testimony to the power of Geekzone:

Having been waiting since before Christmas for someone at Vodafone to respond to my ticket on this matter, I received an email today.

"Unfortunately the free webspace advertised on the site https://www.vodafone.co.nz/broadband/web-space/ are available only for those new Vodafone sign-ups who are on the Red network, and not available for your ex-Telstraclear Cable connection.

There is a clause on the website which stated that."

Of course, that clause was added last week as a result of VodafoneDylan's actions, following on from this thread

I can't help but laugh

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