BT web hosting closing - bye bye BT

Just got an email saying BT are closing their web hosting service. That's the only reason I kept paying for my btinternet.com email address so might as well get a free email now. Nice one BT - you've lost a customer.

DeanM wrote:
You can find all the information you should need about the withdrawal of this service here.
Thanks.
However, there are errors with the information as I said elsewhere.
In addition to the information I provided, (including no date on the webpage you've listed - in fact there are hardly ever any dates, this is wrong as it makes it virtually impossible to know when the information was provided/altered), it was actually part of the initial BTinternet service back in 1995 when it started. BTOpenworld came later.
Cam you say when emails will be sent to the websites email addresses ?
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Re: BT web hosting closing - bye bye BT

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Does anyone else think this is ridiculous?
Apparently not many people were using it.
Well, I have always used it and only found out that it had stopped when I tried to http to it.
The alternative they suggest is to buy business webspace.
As it happens I have business broadband. Not cheap anyway. And I have to pay extra to retain the email addresses that I used when I had home broadband.
But everyone knows where my home boardband werbsite is. And I've used it as a reference in Wikipedia.
Also I managed to get a good name!
How much would this cost to maintain for the allegedly few users?. Anyone who knows anything about web hosting knows that it isn't necessary of course to maintain a seperate web server

Ectophile wrote:
jasee wrote:
Maybe a petition to the government might work if enough people care to sign it
Given that the free web space hasn't been advertised by BT to its customers for many years now, I don't suppose there were that many people still using it. So your odds of a petition acieving anything are pretty mich nil.
BT decided that it wasn't making them any money keeping the service, and they couldn't be bothered to maintain the server any more.
BT are a big multinational company. They really don't care what you think. And they don't take much notice of anything said on this forum.
Yes, that sounds like the attitudes of a big company
Well it would be interesting to know how many customer sites they have closed.
If they did (for some strange reason) host the personal web pages on a single machine alone (unlikely) then of course it could easily be hosted elsewhere, as they do still provide web services.

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Brendan made the personal decision to not only step down from CEO but to also leave Mozilla. This has lead to some individuals and article writers assuming he was fired or forced to resign.
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