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"Not so FREEola???"

Have you at freeola ever considered offeing a paid for service as well as the freebie???

With al this talk of not being able to upload via ADSL connections and not having the monthly pay packages for dial-ups, I think you might want to consider a paid for service for hosting???

Simpy it would be a case of £5 a month or something for the standard unlimited Webspace/E-mail and all the stuff you have at present, but with the added bonus of not being restricted to your dial-up, and alowwing use with ADSL or monthly dial-up packages to take advantage of the great service you offer.

Also, you could consider highr packages, with MySQL and all, maybe even Pre-installed Scripts, Secure Servers, Sub-Domains, the ability to let other people have an E-mail address with our Domains, without giving them our master usernames/password etc..

... what do ya' think???

Yeah, you pay the installation fee that you got free, which is indeed £50.

Really??? DOH.

Thanks Whooo! Dependens on the costs really, If freeola offer free instalation then thats covvered :o). I'll just have to wait an see.

Isn't it £50 to cancel pipex????

If you get your internet through BT, then you are using BT's servers, its just the same as dial up internet, you use your connection to connect to an ISPs servers, I use Pipex server's and you use BTs.

As for changing, you realise there is quite a hefty fee? Not sure of the top of my head but you'll have to pay the installation fee for your Pipex if you cancel within one year, and then pay BT to change your ISP over.

Hopefully Freeola ADSL will be £25 a month max, then I'll transfer to them :o) Not that pipex is bad or anything, they are great. I just makes more sence to use The people who host my sites to also host my ADSL :o)

You know the best bit about ADSL?? Getting that Windows Update in a few seconds rather than one hour, lol :o)

Whooo! wrote:
> The point of going through Freeola instead of BT is that you use
> Freeola's servers, not BT Internet's (who are incidently, a totally
> different to BT). Although you still use the same line, you connect
> to totally different servers, so get totally different quality of
> service. BT Internet are apparently terrible, i know their dial up
> is.

I don't bother with any of BTInternet's services - their webspace provision is far too small for my needs anyway.

> The other advantage of shopping around is saving money, I pay
> £19.95 a month for my ADSL which is quite a bit cheaper than BT.

£23.44 with VAT - still cheaper than BT. Shame they weren't quite available when I signed up with BT because I would probably have gone for them instead.

Chris.

The point of going through Freeola instead of BT is that you use Freeola's servers, not BT Internet's (who are incidently, a totally different to BT). Although you still use the same line, you connect to totally different servers, so get totally different quality of service. BT Internet are apparently terrible, i know their dial up is. The other advantage of shopping around is saving money, I pay £19.95 a month for my ADSL which is quite a bit cheaper than BT.

Randall_Flagg wrote:
> The sooner something is done the better. I bet a lot of people out
> there have Broadband but have already bought a domain from Freeola. I
> wouldn't mind paying a small fee a month for 100MB of space and 5/10
> POP3 addresses.

All but one of my domains are registered with Freeola. My ADSL is a BT plug-and-go package. If Freeola had launched earlier, I *might* have considered going with them, but to be honest, as you are basically getting a BT ADSL line via Freeola at the same price as you'd be paying BT, I don't see the point.

> With having broadband, there is obviously no chance I will connect
> using a 56k modem so my site is forwarded to Tripod.
>
> Not the best solution to web-hosting......

As I'm sure you realise, Freeola make their money from your call costs. If you want access to webspace(s) independant of your ISP, you are basically going to have to pay for space. Have a look at 1&1's hosting packages.

Their 'home' package is a mere £4.99 + VAT a month after a £9.99 + VAT setup fee and that includes 100Mb of space and an impressive 3Gb/month bandwidth. You do have to step up a package to get MySQL though.

They don't make a charge for transferring your domain to them, so you can keep your registrations with Freeola (who do a pretty good job when it comes to renewal) and just be hosted elsewhere.

Chris.

You think Pipex would be selling ADSL at £20 if Wholsale was £25?? Wholesale ADSL (the price BT sell it to the ISP for) is £15 per month.

Wholesale ADSL isn't that expencive I'm sure. BT Cut the price a while ago, I think its like £15 per user per month now.

Freeola ADSL will be £29.99 per month. Wholesale of an ADSL line is £25 so Freeola will want to get a bit of a profit.

NTL is cheaper but only when you subscribe to the full package. I don't so it's really expensive for me. £30 a month!!!