The Hamilton CommunityNet provides reliable and affordable hosting for you or your organization! Everything you need to get you up and running with your own online persona can be obtained here. Click on each component to find out what it can do to benefit you!

Domain Name & Registration
Internet access
E-mail
Maintenance of a Web site
CGI scripting (for forms, guestbooks and more)
PHP scripting and MySQL database (for interactive web pages)

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A domain name is the address people use to find your site, such as www.hwcn.org. It ensures that people will be able to quickly and easily find your site!

Places that host your for site free often place advertisements and logos on your site, or give your site a long, complicated address that resembles www.hostingcompany.com/1002/members/user/yourcompanyhere. Try telling that to someone who asks for your Web site address!

An average Web site may require about 5 Mb of space depending on the amount of content and number of images. A domain name hosting account with the CommunityNet gives you 20 Mb of storage space just to be sure you have enough!

Domain Hosting takes away that hassle, enabling you to use a personalized domain name. Type in www.yourdomain.com and your visitors are there! Quick, easy, convenient.

How do you get a domain? Easy. Let the Hamilton CommunityNet do it for you! Just let us know what you want your domain name to be. We will tell you if it's available; register it for you; and even let you know when it needs to be renewed! You can have your choice of a .ca, .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info or .name.

The Hamilton CommunityNet has been providing reliable Internet service since 1995. Access the World Wide Web and your HWCN hosted web space with your choice of dial-up accounts starting from $7.80 a month, or High-speed DSL service starting at $31.75 a month. We can provide you with everything you need to get up and running smoothly and quickly!
Follow this link for details of HWCN Internet Access Accounts.

E-mail is an essential communication tool for you or your organization. With domain hosting, the registration of your domain plays an important role as to what your email will be. If you register the domain www.company.com, then any email address you require will have that extension, such as info@company.com, bob@company.com, and so on. You can personalize as many emails you want, anyway you like!

CGI Scripting allows you to create interactive tools for your site such as forms to gather information, guestbooks to allow visitors to post comments, or counters to let you, and others, know how many people have visited your site! The CommunityNet has already developed these scripts, with complete instructions, which means less hassle for you!

PHP Scripting allows you to create web pages with interactive functions searching and updating databases, bulletin boards, and more! PHP scripting goes further than the standard 'canned' CGI scripts. We'll setup the server, create MySQL databases, and your web programmer/developer can go to work!

New hosting accounts (including domain name redirection) will be subject to a $30.00 setup/administration fee.
HWCN may occasionally charge additional administration fees for unusual or frequent requests for changes to service.

Once we receive this documentation, we will be in contact with you if we have any questions regarding your information.

If you have any questions or wish for more information regarding hosting with the Hamilton CommunityNet please contact:

Charles Gregory, Membership Co-ordinator
[E-mail] members@hwcn.org
[Phone] 905-528-4936