What are homepages?
Vodafone Homepages allows you to create a personal site to share and visit from anywhere an internet connection is available. It is a free service offered to all Vodafone Fixed Line and Broadband customers. Friends and family can visit the website you create by typing in: http://homepages.vodafone.co.nz/~yourvodafoneusername
Things to know:
It supports simple and dynamic HTML coding only
PHP, MySQL, Databases and FrontPage extensions are not supported
Your standard web space allocation limit is 30Mb
If you've got a domain name, e.g. www.yourname.co.nz you can use Virtual Hosting (see Domains & Hosting ) to make this the address for your website.
Plan
Web space allowance
Excess
Easy, Ideal, Ultimate, Choice & Mega packs
30 MB
$1.03 per MB
Choice Naked, Mega Naked & Chocka Naked Packs
30 MB
$1.03 per MB
Setting up Homepages
Log into My Account
Navigate to Add-on Services and click Add homepage account. Select the appropriate login
Click Add your homepage. This will trigger an automatic email with the login information directly to the contact email address specified on your broadband account.
SUPPORT INFO
Using FTP (file transfer protocol)
Most people will use their website by using an FTP client. In order to log into the server you will need the following information:
An FTP client
Our homepages server address (ftp://homepages.vodafone.co.nz)
Your homepages username
Your homepages password (this can be different to your login password and is contained in the email you were sent during setup)
FTP server port is 21
Document structure
For the server to publish your page correctly all your files need to be located in the public_html folder and your index file needs to be called index.html. Provided you have written your page correctly your page should be available for browsing within 20 minutes.
More info on our website:
http://www.vodafone.co.nz/broadband/web-space/
http://www.vodafone.co.nz/broadband/domains-and-hosting/