Get 10 Mb of free web space for your community and non profit web sites from Vicnet, Victoria's community network.
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Community groups (health, sport, arts, and more), special interest pages and hobby sites where the content of the site is of relevance to the Victorian Community. Government agencies and commercial organisations are not eligible for this service.
Vicnet also offers a wide range of other fee based services such as Internet Accounts, Domain Names, Mailing Lists, and Web design. All profits go towards helping community groups and not profit organisations get online. For more information check out the products and services in the menu bar on the left.
We are very happy to consider any request for additional space which can be provided free of charge. To request additional space please email webhelp@vicnet.net.au. You may be eligible for free extra space if you meet our criteria which include factors such as efficiency of usage, popularity of content, relevance to the Victorian community, and recognition of Vicnet's service. We request that your site acknowledges the support provided to your web site on your home page. For additional web space pricing, please visit our Virtual Web Hosting page.
You can recognise sponsors or supporters, however any advertising content that is included purely to create a revenue stream is discouraged.
I would like to provide some general advice regarding advertising. The main problem with advertising is that the use of in demand space on your web site for something that is not the objective of your web site reduces the value of your web site to your organisation and its members and supporters. Therefore the value of the advertising must reflect this loss, and the price that you sell the advertising at must be high enough to compensate for this loss. Usually this means approaching it from the point of view of identifying a web site sponsor. Its also worth considering having sponsors for the sub pages instead of the home page. Another point to note is that your sponsors and supporters would appreciate a mention if you have a special section on your web site dedicated for this purpose.
The following conditions apply to usernames:
To view your statistics, enter your details as follows: /~username/. Then choose the time period from the scrolling list. If you do not choose a time period, the report defaults to last week's data. The report shows you the data for the week prior to the previous Monday - i.e. last week's traffic. We are unable to provide you with a cumulative report, to get this you need to view the data from each week, and this is available from the scroll list. The first column in the report refers to the number of requests for each file requested during that week. The second column refers to the the percentage of total server bandwidth represented by that file (this figure is usually zero due to the large number of files on the server). The third column refers to the date that the file was last requested during the week in question. The fourth column refers to the name of the file that was requested. The file names are sorted in order of number of requests. The number of requests is roughly equal to the number of visits or the number of people that visited the file in question. This is estimated by the fact that the additional requests by individual visitors is roughly equivalent (and is therefore outwieghed by) to the number of unrecorded requests (due to proxy servers etc.). In the list of file names, your home page (represented as /~username/) is usually near the top of the list and may be considered the most important statistic. Other file names include images (.gif or .jpg) which are less important, and other web pages on your site (.htm, .html). You can interpret the number of visitors to the subsections of your site via the latter. At the bottom of the report, there is an additional list which contains errors reported by the web server. These errors are files requested in error or files which are missing. You can use this error report to identify if a file was accidentally deleted, or if there is a file that your visitors are expecting to see. The interpretation of the data can be used to either justify the popularity of a particular web page and therefore to suggest that additional investment is suggested, or to indicate that a particular web page is not popular and therefore to suggest that the page needs more work or needs to be reviewed.
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