Welcome to Free Virtual Servers
Free Virtual Servers is the home of
Free web hosting, but there's more to
us than just free hosting, you can also register your domain name, design
your website and host your site with us in minutes. From small low-traffic
sites through to large national brands, we have the perfect hosting, design
or domain solutions for you.
Why use Free Virtual Servers?
We are one of the fastest growing web hosting providers in the UK. But
our growth is only due to constantly providing high-quality affordable
hosting packages, earning us a glowing reputation among our customers.
By offering free or cheap hosting we haven't compromised on quality or
customer service. Even our
Free web hosting clients receive a high level of
care and attention. You will be hard pushed to find a better package
elsewhere.
# When you sign up for a web hosting account online, you're ready to go
within seconds. No waiting around.
# When we say
Free web hosting, we mean
Free web hosting for life. No hidden
charges or costs ever.
# With our free website builder you can design and build your own website
within minutes.
# Our 24/7 technical support team is always there for you should you have
any problems. We also have a range of flash tutorials and a comprehensive
knowledge base, so whatever your problem there's a solution.
# We're a UK based web hosting provider with a proven track record. Our
passion for customer service sets us apart from other UK web hosting
companies.
# Thousands of new customers join us every year
# Our customers love what we do
About FreeVirtualServers
FreeVirtualServers was set up in 2001 and was then just one of three web
hosting providers in the UK offering
Free web hosting. Due to its rapid
growth our sister company Easy Internet Services Ltd decided to set up a
separate hosting division, which is now known as Easy Internet Solutions
Ltd.
Easy Internet Solutions Ltd is one of the fastest growing web hosting
providers in the UK. As a company we specialise in offering pioneering,
innovative and cost effective web solutions to SMEs. We are light years
ahead of most competitors because we are not afraid of breaking the mould.
Registered Company:
04953168
VAT Registered:
880 9884 62
Data Protection Number:
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| Web Space | 150mb | 2,048mb | 4,096mb | 8,192mb |
| Bandwidth per Month | 500mb | 10,240mb | 20,480mb | 102,400mb |
| Price (yearly option) | £15.00 | £30.00 | £60.00 | £120.00 |
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freevirtualservers.com
Web Hosting Packages
Web hosting is required in order for people to see your web site on the
Internet. We own a number of fast, custom built, web hosting servers that
are situated in a highly secure data centre with multiple high speed
connections to the rest of the world. This has helped us to become one of
the fastest UK hosting providers. Our secure data centre also features
backup power supplies in the event of power disruption as well as
temperature and humidity control.
Our server availability (reliability) is above 99.9%. All our web hosting
servers run Linux operating systems giving us the reliability and stability
required to host the most demanding websites. Linux-based web servers can be
used with any computer with an Internet connection. We provide firewall
protection for our servers as standard. In addition to this, we also provide
an additional security layer between the firewall and the web server to
prevent unauthorised access to our client's websites.
Choosing a web hosting package
We have a number of different web hosting packages catering for different
requirements and needs. Our Home-plus package is aimed at the enthusiast (or
small business) who may be looking for a fairly
Cheap web hosting package
while being flexible for future requirements. It not only builds upon the
Home package by offering more disk space and monthly bandwidth but also
features a mySQL database with many pre-installed applications.
Monthly bandwidth can be an important factor when choosing a package so
it's important to understand your requirements. Common sense dictates that
there will always be limits and we prefer to be honest about these. If
you're looking to have downloadable music or video on the site, you need to
plan accordingly and we would recommend that you look towards one of our
mid-range packages such as the Advanced or Premier package. These packages
have much more space and are ideal for streaming music or video. They're
also ideal for larger or growing businesses.
Multi-site hosting
It's now quite common for an individual or business to have more than one
web site. To cater for this, our mid to high end packages can host more than
one web site on the same account using the addon-domains feature. For
example, with our Premier package, it's possible to host a total of 5
independent sites, all with separate email accounts from the same control
panel. Although multi-site hosting packages can be used by web developers
and design companies, our reseller packages may offer more long term
flexibility as each account can have its own control panel.
FAQ - web hosting
Do you put adverts on my website?
Vision Internet Limited never place adverts on any hosting packages.
If I buy hosting from you, can I use any ISP to upload my files?
Yes, you can use any ISP of your choice.
Can I use flash animation (.swf files) on my hosting?
Yes, you can use flash animation with any of our hosting packages.
What type of servers are you running?
Our servers are custom built to our own specification. They run Linux
operating systems with Apache web server. This makes them very reliable and
fast.
How do I get my files to my web site?
You need to use an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) package such as Cute FTP or
WS_FTP. Internet Exploror can also be used to upload files to your space.
Please
I have uploaded my site but I still see your site reserved page. Why?
There could be one of two reasons. You may have uploaded your site to the
wrong directory. Your web site should be uploaded to either the html or
mainwebsite_html directory. Alternatively, you may not have overwritten
(replaced) the index.html file already in the html directory. If your home
page is called index.htm, make sure you delete the index.html file currently
there.
I keep getting an error 403 - Forbidden message when I visit my site.
You've removed the index.html file. If you have a file there called
index.html, make sure that it's in lower case. Linux based servers use case
sensitive characters. Some web servers will list all the contents of folders
that don't have an index.html file. This is incredibly bad for security and
we don't allow this on any of our servers. Hence the error message.
I wish to sell your hosting on at a profit. Is this allowed?
Certainly, no problem. We only contact the administrator of an account and
not the registrant of the domain name.
Can I upgrade my hosting?
Certainly. You can do this at any time. Please contact us as we calculate
the time left on your present package and trade that in against the time
difference on the new package. We will confirm the price with you, send you
information on how to pay for this and upgrade the account.
What is your uptime rate?
We are one of the top hosting companies in the UK for reliability. It would
be unusual for us not to have a 100% figure for any given month. Obviously
we occasionally need to take the server down for planned maintenence. When
this happens, we inform our clients that the service will be down and try to
give an indication as to how long for.
How secure is your server?
We take security very seriously and apply patches and new versions of
software when available.
My current 'free web space' provider is too slow. Will your hosting be
faster?
We're likely to be faster than your free hosting provider due to server
location and less over-crowding of hosting accounts.
My website is currently down and my hosting and domain name provider
cannot be contacted. Is it possible to move my site to you?
In most cases, yes. You will need to move the domain name over to us. Please
see our page on moving a domain name or contact us with more details.
I don't really like/trust hit counters. Is there an alternative?
If you have a hosting package with us that includes site statistics, then
yes. This will give you an indication as to the number of visitors on all
your web pages rather than one with a hit counter on it.
My stats report 'file not found' for robots.txt and favicon.ico. Any
clues?
robots.txt is a file that the web spiders (robots) use to check if they are
allowed to check through all links of your web site. If they cannot find the
file, they assume they are allowed. favicon.ico is an icon file that old
versions of IE check for when someone tries to bookmark your site. We now
believe that only Netscape browsers use this correctly.
I've had 140,000 requests made to my site. Are these all different
visitors?
No. Hits or requests are not the same as visitors. The number of hits
includes all images and buttons on your page as well as the page itself. If
you had 10 buttons and 5 images, that's 16 hits including the page itself.
To get a better idea, you need to look at distinct hosts served.
My stats say I've served 251 distinct hosts. Does this mean I have had
251 individual people visiting the site?
Not exactly, although it's usually a good indicator. There may be more than
one person at a single host going through a proxy server. Our server will
only log the IP address of the proxy and see this as only one person.
Equally, one person may have revisited your site using a different IP
address.
Is there any way of not including me in the stats as I visit 6-7 times
daily?
Unfortunately not. Our servers aren't aware of your IP address when you
check your site.
Someone has told me my website is down. He recommends I buy some
monitoring package.
It's likely to be a scam to make you buy this package. Do not trust the word
of anyone who tells you your site is down and are selling anything. It's
incredibly rare that our hosting is down.
I've tried to upload folders and the remote site has created a folder
called XYIZNWSK. What is this?
Dreamweaver creates this directory automatically on the server and should
remove it after use. It's most likely used in synchronising the online files
with your local files.
Do you support FrontPage and ASP?
We support MS-FrontPage with most of our web hosting packages but we don't
support ASP.
I'm debugging a perl script but the full errors are not shown in the
error log. How can I see the full error details?
To see the full error details, please add the following line directly under
the first line of your perl script...
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
Some of my jpg pictures have bands of corruption running through them and
others don't appear at all.
Please check your FTP settings and make sure that you're uploading these in
'binary' mode rather than 'ascii'.
404 error pages don't work with php5.
Add the following to your .htaccess file...
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteRule ^.+\.php$ /bogusfile
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