I've been with BTInternet a while; they're a lot better than my
previous ISP but I can't get much sense out of them re webspace. Do
they actually provide it?

What I want is to create a small site - less than half a megabye -
with a pointer to my main site.

How do I do this and can I use ftp?

Thanks

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On 2008-01-09, thedarkman  wrote:
> I've been with BTInternet a while; they're a lot better than my
> previous ISP but I can't get much sense out of them re webspace. Do
> they actually provide it?
>
> What I want is to create a small site - less than half a megabye -
> with a pointer to my main site.
>
> How do I do this and can I use ftp?
>
> Thanks

I just asked Emma [1], and she said:

    You asked me: 
    Does BT Broadband come with personal web space? 

    My answer is: 
    BT Broadband comes with your own personal webspace. To access this, you 
    just need to sign into the Geocities area on BT Yahoo! There's a handy 
    wizard to help you get started, or you can create your own website
    using HTML.

[1] A sort of FAQ-bot working for BT 
<http://help11.creativevirtual.com/BTBot/?JSIN=1>

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"thedarkman"  wrote in message 
news:b3f698df-17a5-4147-b1a3-1314e4d2c067@q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> I've been with BTInternet a while; they're a lot better than my
> previous ISP but I can't get much sense out of them re webspace. Do
> they actually provide it?
>
> What I want is to create a small site - less than half a megabye -
> with a pointer to my main site.
>
> How do I do this and can I use ftp?
>
> Thanks

You're referring to the old name of "BT Internet" as it was originally, but 
since then it's been called BT Openworld, BT Yahoo! and currently BT 
Broadband. This is relevant because if you really have been with them since 
the days of BT Internet, you should have 50MB of unrestricted webspace on 
their own servers allocated to you.

If however, you only joined when it was BT Yahoo!, you will have 15MB of 
webspace allocated on Geocities servers that is restricted to a bandwidth 
limit of just 4Mb per hour.

Best place to ask is their own "closed" (not viewable if you're not using BT 
as your ISP) newsgroups - bt.internet.users.homepage.authoring, 
bt.internet.users.broadband.technical and bt.broadband.support

John

"thedarkman"  wrote in message 
news:b3f698df-17a5-4147-b1a3-1314e4d2c067@q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> I've been with BTInternet a while; they're a lot better than my
> previous ISP but I can't get much sense out of them re webspace. Do
> they actually provide it?
>
> What I want is to create a small site - less than half a megabye -
> with a pointer to my main site.
>
> How do I do this and can I use ftp?
>
> Thanks

You would be as well getting your own domain with some web space.
That way your web address will stay the same even if you change ISP.
We are doing 10MB with a domain for £1 for the first year.

http://www.nameroute.co.uk/cheap-domain-names.html


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On 10 Jan, 08:43, "Gordon Hudson"  wrote:
> "thedarkman"  wrote in message
>
> news:b3f698df-17a5-4147-b1a3-1314e4d2c067@q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
> > I've been with BTInternet a while; they're a lot better than my
> > previous ISP but I can't get much sense out of them re webspace. Do
> > they actually provide it?
>
> > What I want is to create a small site - less than half a megabye -
> > with a pointer to my main site.
>
> > How do I do this and can I use ftp?
>
> > Thanks
>
> You would be as well getting your own domain with some web space.
> That way your web address will stay the same even if you change ISP.
> We are doing 10MB with a domain for £1 for the first year.
>
>
Thanks, I alreadt have webspace and several sites. All I wanted was to
use my BT webspace as a pointer.

For some reason I can't sign in or sign up with Geocities. The program
keeps asks me to sign in then doesn't let me.

Anyone have the same problem? Or better still the cure?


On 14 Jan, 15:52, thedarkman  wrote:
> On 10 Jan, 08:43, "Gordon Hudson"  wrote:
>
>
>
> > "thedarkman"  wrote in message
>
> >news:b3f698df-17a5-4147-b1a3-1314e4d2c067@q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...> > > I've been with BTInternet a while; they're a lot better than my
> > > previous ISP but I can't get much sense out of them re webspace. Do
> > > they actually provide it?
>
> > > What I want is to create a small site - less than half a megabye -
> > > with a pointer to my main site.
>
> > > How do I do this and can I use ftp?
>
> > > Thanks
>
> > You would be as well getting your own domain with some web space.
> > That way your web address will stay the same even if you change ISP.
> > We are doing 10MB with a domain for £1 for the first year.
>
> Thanks, I alreadt have webspace and several sites. All I wanted was to
> use my BT webspace as a pointer.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:52:18 -0800 (PST), thedarkman
 wrote:


>>
>>
>Thanks, I alreadt have webspace and several sites. All I wanted was to
>use my BT webspace as a pointer.

I'm still using webspace that was provided by BTInternet (one a
hangover from BTAnytime which I converted to PAYG) and the other one
from a PAYG and I have a re-direction from a domain with 123 which
works fine for a small society I am involved with.

I ftp to ftp.btinternet.com and login with my username/password as
used for my email.

The site address becomes www.btinternet/~yourusername

hth

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