To Get Started:

Register your domain with an accredited registrar (see below). Set the name servers to: ns1.ecwh.org and ns2.ecwh.org.
Setup an account with us by sending an e-mail request with your new domain name to New Member Registration. In your email, please provide the address and telephone number of the organization, and the contact email address.
Usually within 24-48 hours, you will be emailed a password to sign in. Please do so immediately and change the password using the recommended guidelines.
At this point, your website is ready for you to upload pages to. You can use FTP or our cpanel file manager facility to do so.

Services

Free Service
Episcopal Church Web Hosting (ECWH) provides free web hosting to Episcopal organizations that do not have the resources to host their own website. The basic package will be adequate for most parish web sites. For the basic (i.e. free) package, these services include:
- 50 MB web space
- 1 GB monthly transfer
- 5 POP email accounts
- 1 FTP account (for file uploads).
- Front Page extensions available
- cpanel based website management

Additional resources are available for purchase through Dragon Networks who freely donate ECWH's webspace. Please contact sally@dragon.com for more information about upgrading your ECWH account. (ECWH does not benefit in any way from upgrades purchased through Dragon.)

Upgrade 1 Package available through Dragon Networks.
Includes everything above, plus up to 10 email accounts, 1 mailing list and 100 MB web-space for $75 per year.
Upgrade 2 Package
Includes the above plus up to 15 email accounts, 2 Mailing Lists, 100 MB web space, 1 mySQL database, up to 5 GB monthly transfer and CGI access for $100 per year
Add-ons will include
- Additional email accounts at $20 per year (with Spam Assassin, etc.)
- Extra MB of web space. Mail sally@dragon.com for quote
- Dedicated IP
- Domain Name $9.95
- Forum
- Mailing list $20
- Gallery $25
- Extra Databases (for blogs, etc.) $20
- Guestbooks
- Design

Domain Name Registration

ECWH does not provide Domain Name Registration Services. Domain name registration is a separate service and does not need to be done through your web host provider. ECWH does not require that you use any particular domain registrar in order to use our services. However, we recommend registration through Dragon Network's regest.com registration service.

Dragon Networks (dragon.com) is currently donating the host for ECWH. They are an Anglican owned and operated web hosting service. They also provide domain name registration for ECWH clients at a very reasonable rate. Most conveniently, if you have all of your web services through Dragon Networks it makes it easier to keep track of your accounts, easier for us to help you if you have trouble, and easier for those who might come after you and need to recover account information.

If your domain name is currently registered with a more expensive registrar, you should consider transfering your domain to the Dragon Networks service and take advantage of the discounted rate for future unpaid years. Contact Sally@Dragon.com for more information.

Click here to conduct a Domain Name Search and/or Registration.

WE NEED YOUR WISDOM on this and other Episcopalian web initiatives. Please join our discussions in THE EP_WEB USER GROUP at Yahoo Groups.

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For other hosting alternatives, check out ChurchSites, ForMinistry, Church Host or Christian Web Host. For a complete list of various web hosting services, try the Web Hosting Service Shopping Guide at CNET.

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