Generosity part 2

In my last post I talked a bit about Escouts and the forums they provide. As well as the forums, until recently, they also provided free hosting for UK Scouting websites. This has been of enormous benefit to many Groups around the country who have been able to set up a sit without any cost.

However their free hosting service has been stopped recently due to a number of reasons, but mainly due to technical problems and the lack of time available to the Escouts owners. This is of course, because they have jobs, families and other Scouting commitments before they even think about the hosting. So they’ve called it a day.

Interestingly, by providing this service, they recon they’ve saved UK Scouting in the region of £100,000 – £150,000! Now if that’s not generous, I don’t know what is!

So a big thank you for all their hard work and generosity in providing that service!

2 Replies to “Generosity part 2”

  1. I too think it was good for the Escouts site to offer this service. But I’m sure many people who build Scouting websites have found better and more comprehensive companies that also offer free web hosting with a better level of service. Now it might sound like I’m being critical but it’s not meant like that, I’m just saying that since escouts started, better services have come along. Also you can see a large number of sites hosted on escouts seemed to dwindle over the years.

  2. Couldn’t really fault Escouts, but I think they became victims of their own success. Still if they enabled Groups etc to get a web presence, then they have done an excellent job!

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