Due to the proliferation of scammers, software pirates and Russian pornography sites, the free hosting solution provided by the current version of Surfacing.WebSite is being forced to shut down.
Surfacing.ws will be retired on or around 10/30/2010, all sites hosted with Surfacing.WebSite will be permanently deleted.
ONLY the surfacing.ws sites are affected by this change. We apologize for this disruption, but the amount of abused server resources, time and financial considerations necessary to maintain a high quality of service are becoming impossible to manage.
If your site has an address of http://something.surfacing.ws then you ARE affected, and need to move your site or risk losing your data permanently. Accounts with their own full domain names will NOT be affected.
However, the lessons learned with Surfacing.WebSite have led to a new low-cost hosting solution with none of the drawbacks to the existing free hosting services.
Surfacing.com now provides an ultra-low-cost alternative that guarantees your hosting service will remain available for many years to come. The new service is ALMOST free, requiring only a small setup fee, a buck a year and a domain name.
You can get this service now by following these directions:
1. Transfer your existing domain name to surfacing.name (Surfacing’s domain registration service).
2. Pay a low, ONE-TIME setup fee of $24.
3. Pay an annual hosting fee of one dollar. This is basically to cover the cost of our fraud detection and prevention service that weeds out spammers & identity thieves.
You will receive a hosting account for one domain with 250MB disk space and 2500MB monthly bandwidth. This hosting will only cost you a dollar a year for as long as you continue to use surfacing.name as your registrar. Your ONLY future cost to participate will be the annual domain registration fee plus one dollar.
The FreeBoard plan is a professional web hosting plan on a quad-core server with 16GB of RAM and a redundant hard drive RAID array. These are the exact same hosting accounts offered on Surfacing.com to businesses and individuals, only smaller. No advertising, branding, or any of the other issues that have caused customer problems on surfacing.ws.
Surfacing.Name has been providing domain registration services for 6 years, with .com/.net/.org and other domains for as little as $12.50 or less, and all domains come with FREE private registration (where legal) at no additional cost. Private registration hides the personal information you must provide during the registration process and protects you from spammers, identity thieves and more – most registrars charge an additional $9 or more per year per domain for this service.
You can transfer your existing domain name by going to Surfacing.Name.
If you have already transferred to or purchased your domain name with Surfacing.Name, or if you will be registering a new domain, all you need to do is go to the FreeBoard web hosting order page.
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