Web hosting and e-mail alternatives

Web hosting

eMINTS National Center provides webspace for participants in selected eMINTS professional development programs only under certain terms and conditions. The following listing of website hosting services is intended as an informational resource only and should not be construed as an endorsement of any particular product or service. Consult the provider for current features and costs.

Free web hosting services

Angelfire (Lycos)

• Advertising on site
• 20 MB webspace
• FTP capable
• no e-mail
• Pages deleted after 1 year of not being logged into and less than 5 views within 30 days

Bravenet

• Advertising on site
• 50 MB webspace
• No e-mail
• FTP capable
• Account deleted after 6 months of inactivity. To register activity, all you have to do is log in to the account

Gaggle.Net

Geocities (Yahoo)

• Advertising on site
• 15 MB webspace
• No e-mail
• No FTP

Google Sites (https://sites.google.com)

• Use free Google account to access and maintain
• Hosted on Google servers, 100 MB
• Edit pages in browser; no additional web editor required

Homepage Startup

Portalportal

Tripod (Lycos)

• Advertising on site
• 20MB webspace
• FTP capable
• no e-mail
• Pages deleted after 1 year of not being logged into and less than 5 views within 30 days

Web Poster Wizard

• From 4Teachers.org

Fee-based web-hosting services

1and1

• $3.00 a month with one domain name
• 5,000 MB webspace
• 500 e-mail accounts with a total of 2 GB space

Angelfire (Lycos)

• $4.95 a month
• 25 MB webspace
• FTP capable
• no e-mail

Bravent

• $8.95 a month – no advertising
• 1,000 MB webspace
• 30 e-mail accounts
• FTP capable

Gaggle.Net

Geocities (Yahoo)

• $4.95 a month – one time set up fee of $10
• 500 MB webspace
• No e-mail
• FTP capable

Homestead

• $9.99 a month – one time set up fee of $20
• 25 MB webspace
• Up to 10 webpages
• No e-mail

Tripod (Lycos)

• $4.95 a month – one time $10 set up fee
• 25 MB webspace
• FTP capable
• no e-mail

E-mail services

eMINTS National Center does not provide e-mail accounts or service. The following listing of e-mal service providers is intended as an informational resource only and should not be construed as an endorsement of any particular product or service. Consult the provider for current features and costs.

• Listing of Free E-Mail Account Providers
  Includes feature comparisons and reviews
  http://www.freecenter.com/email.html
• Top 10 Free E-mail Services
  Review article from About Computing and Technology
  http://email.about.com/cs/freeemailreviews/tp/free_email.htm

Many well-known providers offer free e-mail services with for-pay upgrades.

AIM Mail (Netscape – http://www.aim.com/fun/mail/)

• 2 GB storage

Earthlink (http://www.earthlink.net)

FastMail (http://www.fastmail.fm/?STKI=60gg2)

Gaggle.Net (http://www.gaggle.net)

Gmail (Google https://www.google.com)

• Unlimited storage
• Easily searchable

Hotmail (MSN - http://join.msn.com/hotmail/overview-std)

• 250 MB Inbox
• Up to 10 MB attachments allowed

Juno (http://www.juno.com)

Lycos (http://mail.lycos.com)

Yahoo (http://mail.yahoo.com/)

• 1 GB free storage
• 10 MB messages

Fee-based web and e-mail hosting for organizations

MOREnet offers Missouri organizations (including schools and districts) a fee-based web and e-mail hosting service called kinetic. These services are not available for individual subsciptions. Find out more about kinetic ...

Reviewed September 24, 2008.