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Nothing is free, someone has to pay. In non-profit, donations and funding covers the cost.
@rio is there a specific area of interest relating to your non-profit/charity or is this just a general inquiry for purposes unknown?
Were you looking for web-hosting for non profits or something more like a VPS ?
I am not looking for any provider, I just want to discuss this topic with community.
Your original Q was unclear and reading the updated Q, the UK company I posted comes to mind since Nonprofits are their TG
Sorry for being vague, just learning to ask questions.
Well alrighty then.
Please proceed to discuss.
What's new ... what's happening ... what's fresh ?
There is probably no provider that offers free hosting without gaining any profit from it. Whether that's ultimately economical, social, cultural or symbolic (or any other type of) capital differs. Some offer free hosting to upsell (e.g. Infinityfree), some to upsell/spread their brand (wordpress.com), others might for recognition or status (e.g. "We are supporting xxx projects..") and some to beta test their software or whatever.
Anyway, nobody's doing free hosting entirely for "free".
Edit: xxx might have not been the best variable to choose as an example )
So there are 2 aspects. Non-profit organizations that provide hosting, and organizations that offer free/low-cost hosting to non-profit organizations.
For a list of some companies that offer free hosting to non-profit (501(c)(3)) organizations in the US, see:
http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community/f/24/t/30974.aspx
And I am just learning to give not so vague answers. On nextcloud site, Green net’s pitch is
“ A not-for-profit collective since 1985, we provide UK-based Nextcloud and Collabora hosting to supporters of peace, the environment and human rights.”
I suppose that qualifies as direct answer to your Q. the assumption here is that organizations these guys cater to -”supporters of peace, environment and human rights” are also nonprofits, which they typically tend to be.
Cheers
There's a Wikipedia paga about them even:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreenNet
Flashback time.:
But we see again, that non-profit doesn't necessarily mean cheap:
https://www.greennet.org.uk/
Great. I was reluctant to add a link to a company that i have no dealings with.
@rio - what's your angle here?
My angle is somewhat aligned now as I am reading comments and knowing how non-profit hosting providers works and companies which provide hosting to non-profit with a proof.
I mean - are you looking for hosting, or looking to provide hosting, or what?
Maybe he has a term paper due.
One of the worst questions ever on LET.
Non-profit hosting company, what a laugh.
HostMantisoh. wait.Thinking to start a non-profit hosting with donations and funding. But not gunning for provider tag here and this is my promise, I am not.
There used to be a company called GrassRoots.org (here's a archived site copy - https://web.archive.org/web/20160502233820/http://www.grassroots.org/). They would offer tools (and I think free hosting) to non-profit orgs.
Also had a place for volunteers to sign up to help out non-profits. I was signed up there and did a few web designs for some animal shelters/NPO's when I was first learning web design to gain some experience.
But that's all irrelevant now since they don't appear to be active anywhere anymore. I guess the point is there are organizations and sympathetic providers out there, you just have to know where to look and who to talk to.
I see. Sounds legit.
I was just wondering what kind of projects all the helpful people here might be facilitating after a quick perusal of your other recent thread: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/158890/free-vps-with-a-little-trick/p1
still no understand what OP wants. but there is @Neoon & @MasonR vps'es ... no ?
Why don't you acquire da-Mantis?
Last but not the least google dot org
I got here what I was searching for.
Technically money used to pay for equipment/staff is not profit. Those are expenses. Non profits still have margins, just like for profit companies and organizations, but those 'profits' are not for the 'owners'. They are either put back into the program, or in the case of charities, used to fund charitable projects.
From here, you can consider SDF, NYX, NinthFloor and HCoop.
See the new thread by op lol
I shall blame summer.