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FVS Starter Packages

FVS Starter provides free hosting for as long as you want for a one-off set up fee of just £10.99.

FVS Starter Plus provides a worry free web hosting which includes a free domain, unlimited bandwidth and WebPlus Essentials web builder for just £24.99 per annum.

Both unbeatable offers come with excellent customer support with most support enquiries answered within 10 minutes!


Package Info Starter
£10.99 one-off		 Starter Plus
£24.99 /year
Web Space 100 MB 750 MB
Bandwidth 150 MB Unlimited*
*FREE* Domain Name Registration or Transfer
( This will cost you about £10 / year with other providers! )		 Not Included
*FREE* Domain Name Renewal Not Included
*NEW* WebPlus Essentials Web Builder Not Included
*NEW* Online Reputation & Blacklist Monitoring Not Included
Commercial Use Allowed
Email Accounts 10 20
MySQL Databases Unlimited 20
Subdomains Unlimited Unlimited
cPanel
FTP accounts Unlimited Unlimited
*NEW* 100GB Cloud Storage* For 3 months For 3 months
Setup fee (one-off) £10.99 -
Annual fee - £24.99
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FVS Free Web Hosting

  • Free Virtual Servers currently hosts over 75,000 websites. Established in 2004, we were the first UK company to offer fully featured hosting at zero cost. We are often asked how we can provide such an excellent service for no charge, well the answer is simple — 30% of customers signing up upgrade to a paid service within a year. It is like a try before you buy service but with very few trial limitations. For instance, if you own a low bandwidth website with low resource usage (like 50% of our free hosting customers) you can host for free for as long as you like!

Unlimited Hosting Packages

  • Need extra space, unlimited bandwith, and faster loading speeds? Upgrade to our Lite, Pro, or Business Hosting package to get unlimited bandwidth & webspace*, a more advanced website builder, plus loads of cool freebies! Read more.

  • Need your own space? Check out our industry leading Fully Monitored VPS Hosting Packages! This type of hosting gives you more flexibility, power, space, and resources than a standard shared-hosting environment. Our VPS Hosting packages are suitable for small to medium businesses who are looking for a cheaper alternative to a fully dedicated server. Find out more!

* Subject to our fair usage policy

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Domain Name Registration or Transfer

Not Included

Free Domain Name for life with FVS Starter Plus as long it's registered with us (limited to .co.uk, .com, .net, .biz, .org, .org.uk, .eu, .me.uk). Please note that you are required to transfer your domain name to Free Virtual Servers to use both starter packages. If you'd like to keep your domain name somewhere else, you need to choose from our unlimited hosting packages (Lite, Pro, or Business).

Domain Name Renewal

Not Included

Free domain name renewal every year with FVS Starter PLus (limited to .co.uk, .com, .net, .biz, .org, .org.uk, .eu, .me.uk) Note: The domain name should be registered with us.

Online Reputation & Blacklist Monitoring

Not Included

A comprehensive daily check on how your website is perceived on the Internet to make sure that it doesn't end up on search engines' blacklists. This will ultimately help your site rank better on Google.

WebPlus Essentials Site Builder

Not Included

Create, edit, and publish a high quality website in just minutes. WebPlus Essentials is a code-free site builder that allows you to easily build professional quality sites for your business that normally cost your thousands of pounds. No technicall skills required. Drag, Drop, and Done!

Anti-Spam & Anti-Virus Protection

Protects your emails and computers from junk email and harmful or malicious software.

£100's Worth of Software

Over 30 pieces of individual software to help you with Java, Images, HTML, Pop-ups and much more.

Over 500 Professional Templates

Build your website simply and easily with our library of ready made website templates.
Email Features

POP3 Email Accounts

10

20

Pick up your e-mail from anywhere on the Internet, even if you're connected through someone else's account.

Webmail: Horde AND SquirrelMail

Easy to use email programs that you can set -up and manage from any computer with internet access in the world.

Spam Filtering & Virus Scanning

Protects your emails and computers from junk email and harmful or malicious software.

Unlimited Auto-Responders

Set-up email responses that happen automatically on your email accounts.

Unlimited Email Forwarders

Forward your emails to any email account you like.

Mailing List Manager

Send emails to your database of customers and manage this through your control panel.

Automatic Microsoft Outlook & Outlook Express Config

Configure your email account with Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express with no technical knowledge required.

MX Record Management

MX records specify a mail exchanger for a domain name: a host that will either deliver or forward mail for the domain name

IMAP Support

Internet Message Access Protocol is a method of accessing electronic mail or bulletin board messages that are kept on a mail server.

Outgoing (SMTP) Mail Server Functionality

Hosting Features

24/7 FTP Access

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol which is an easy way to upload your webpages to your website. Having 24/7 access 365 days a year, means you can upload / change / delete your webpages at any time.

24/7/365 access to upload, change or delete your webpages, through File Transfer Protocol.

FTP Accounts

Unlimited

Unlimited

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol which is an easy way to upload your webpages to your website. You can setup a number of FTP accounts and limit access for specific users.

Online File Manager

Manage all of your files online with our easy to use file manager

Microsoft Frontpage Extensions

We support Microsoft Frontpage Extensions, so you can upload or publish straight from Frontpage.

Backup Manager

Make sure your data is safe with our backup manager, so you won't have to worry about losing any data if you make a mistake. (We also perform regular backups, but we will only restore these in the unlikely event there was a server fault, rather than a human error.)

PHP 5

A programming language that allows you to create dynamic content that interacts with databases.

MySQL Databases

Unlimited

2

A fast and reliable database server that integrates well with PHP and Perl.

CGI Perl

Short for Practical Extraction and Report Language, Perl is a programming language, especially designed for processing text.

SSI Support

We provide full support for SSI which is a web technology that instructs a web server what to include in a dynamically generated Web page by inserting code into a template web page.

PostgreSQL

A powerful open-source database server.

Over 50 Easy to Install Scripts

Including scripts for blogs, guestbooks and bulletin boards. Just click and go, no technical programming knowledge required.

Password Protected Directories

All your folders can be password protected, to ensure only authorized users can access the content.

Hotlink Protection

Protect your images and bandwidth with our Hotllink Protector that will keep your images from being stolen.

IP Deny Manager

The IP Deny Manager allows you to prevent an IP address, domain name, or block of IP addresses from accessing your web site.

Leech Protect

Leech Protect suspends and redirects user accounts that login too frequently over a set period of time. This prevents people from sharing their login details for your site and helps protect against people trying to break in through repeated guesses.

SSL Support

All of our servers support SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates. You can buy an SSL certificate from your control panel. SSL certificates are comonly used for online orders or handling sensitive data over a secure connection. If a user is on a secure page a padlock will show in their browser.

Detailed Web & FTP Stats

Review your stats through your control panel. Includes Webalizer, AwStats and Analog Stats. Track user trends and more.

Bandwidth & Disk Usage Monitors

At a glance see how much bandwidth you're using and how much disk space you're using, ensuring you never run out.

Error Log & Raw Access Logs

Useful for more technical users to identify and correct errors users experience when visiting a website.

Cron Jobs

Schedule scripts or programs to run at a set time. For example you could schedule a PHP script to update all your prices at 12noon. Comes with an easy wizard and advanced options.

.htaccess File Modification

This powerful tool helps you change how the web server perceives your files and also password protects directories, or blocks certain addresses from reaching your site

MIME Types

A file identification based on the MIME encoding system. The MIME type has become the de facto standard for identifying content on the Internet.

Apache Handlers

Apache Handlers allow's you to manage how the server processes your files. For example you could set .html files to run as if they are PHP scripts.

OpenPGP Key Manager

PGP Encryption (Pretty Good Privacy) is a computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication.

Index Manager

The Index Manager allows you to customize the way a directory will be viewed on the web. For example you could hide the contents of a directory.

Image Manager

The Image Manager allows you to customize the way your image directory will be viewed on the web. For example you could hide the contents of your image directory.
Domain Features

Unlimited Parked Domains

Not Included

Not Included

Free Hosting does not support this feature, view Lite Hosting that does!
The parked domain name feature lets you point any number of domain names to your current website and send/recieve emails from that domain. For example this is useful if you would like your visitors to be able to reach you from either yourdomain.com, yourdomain.co.uk or yourdomain.net.

Sub Domain Manager

Not Included

Not Included

This package does not support this feature, view one that does ?
The Subdomain Manager tool is an easy-to-use Control Panel function which allows you to instantly create subdomains within your hosting account, indicating the name of your sub-domain and the directory which it will point to.

Purchase Extra Domains

This package does not support this feature, view one that does ?
Check availability and register extra domain names cheaply and easily from your control panel.

Web Re-Direction

Re-direct a website or webpage to another URL address temporarily or permanently.

Add-On Domains

Not Included

Not Included

This package does not support this feature, view one that does ?
An add-on domain allows you to host multiple, completely independent, websites from the same hosting account. It creates a sub directory within your main web hosting directory but can show a different web site. The add-on domain collects the information from the sub domain directory using the same space and bandwidth as your main account, both websites will be accessible through one control panel.
General Features

NO Adverts

There are strictly no adverts, banners or annoying pop-ups, ever placed on your website once it has been uploaded. Just great hosting.

No Tie In Contract

We won't bind you to a contract, no strings attached.

Regular Backups

We always make sure our servers are backed up, so you won't lose any information, in the very unlikely event that the server should fail. You should also always make your own backups using the backup manager in your control panel.

INSTANT activation for payments via credit or debit card!

No waiting around, as soon as you've paid by card your account is activated. (Welcome emails are usually received within 10 minutes but domain name registration can take up to 3 working days, but usually within a few hours.) Note: Not all orders can be activated automatically. Complex orders may require manual activation.
Support Features

24/7 Online Technical Support

For those times when we all need a helping hand, our 24/7 technical team is always there to help.

Online Flash Tutorials & FAQ's

Become an expert with our library of flash tutorials and extensive FAQ section.

Extensive Knowledge base

An extensive article knowledge base to help you understand and solve any problems you might have without having to use technical support.

Telephone Support (office hours)

Fully qualified experienced staff are just a phone call away to help you solve any problems you might have.
General Technical Specifications

cPanel Control Panel on Linux

Tier One Datacenter Facility

Powerful UK-Based Dell Servers

If you're looking for something specific and can't find it please contact us and we'll assist.

FVS Starter comes with Trendy Site builder that allows you to create a stunning:

  • Flash website for any purposes
  • eCommerce store
  • Image gallery
FVS Starter Plus comes with WebPlus Essentials Site builder that allows you to build an even more stunning:
  • Professional website for any purposes
  • eCommerce store
  • Blogs & forums
  • Animated photo galleries
  • Plus high quality templates
Find out more about our website builders.

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Is It Really Free?

When we say free web hosting - we really do mean it! We charge only a small one-off set-up fee to ensure that your website is hosted correctly on our server, then it is absolutely FREE for Life! No recurring charges whatsoever!