Certain Domains Configured & Served Free By Berklix.Com

• These domains, Julian Stacey of Vector Systems Ltd has configured & serves free.
  • Either free because it's of interest to Julian Stacey &/or Vector Systems Ltd &/or site providers , &/or public source code projects, or because the group is a non-profit local club of particular interest to JHS.
  • Or free just until the domain owners build their businesses, earn some money, & pay something ( some of which JHS would happily volunteer to facility providers).
• Software Tools.
  • We expect you to use free public domain software with free source code to edit & upload your web site to Berklix servers.
  • If you use commercial binaries that run on Microsoft, that's exclusively your own problem, not ours !
    We are Not Free consultants for Microsoft users.
  • • Pay us Berklix at commercial rate Computer Consultancy, if you want our time. We Berklix do not waste our time unpaid, explaining protocols services & interfaces that run fine with client PCs running both Unix or Microsoft, uploading to Unix servers.
    • Do Not ask us Berklix for free advice if some commercial package you fancy on MS will work. We Berklix neither know nor care - go check your software vendor's web site.
    • Escape Microsoft & use Free Software ! then we Berklix & many others may be motivated to help.
• Free tips for Microsoft addicts
  • To Create Web Pages:
    • Many word processors etc export in HTML format.
    • HTML web pages offer reduced formatting possibilities compared with word processors, some adjustment are not possible.
      You can learn HTML by trial and error. Or be more analytical, & learn what HTML supports, thus what your editor can be expected to try to export.
      Here is what HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) 3.2 supports.
      View your HTML in several different browsers to check what different browsers present.
    • Mozilla is not just a browser, but can also create web pages. As can netscape & others.
    • Notepad, the simplest of text editors, from MS.
      Rec. from surfacevision.com.
      mediluxhealth.net reports: "was immediately lost in obscure HTML code so I would never consider composing a page in it, but i was able quickly and neatly to amend a site header"
    • Open Office For a simple HTML page , it is a good tool but it is not the best with tables. Rec. from surfacevision.com
    • Star Office & others also support HTML export.
    • MS-Word: A Version mediluxhealth.net has tried does not support export in HTML format. JHS has heard newer Word supports HTML format. Whether true don't know or care. Mail me & tell Berklix the version number if you know & care.
    • Word Perfect: Version mediluxhealth.net tried does support export in HTML format .
  • To Upload Web Pages
    
    • Don't ask Berklix if your software package is supported. We Berklix have no idea or interest. Just ensure your software offers at least FTP (File Transfer Protocol) & / or SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) upload (we Berklix support that ( Berklix do Not offer TFTP = Trivial File Transfer Protocol to users, & you are very unlikely to want it).
    • PuTTY Offers SFTP (= Secure FTP). It is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. Putty is a command line tool. Good for Unix people familiar with CLI type FTP, Who are just temporarily cursed to upload from an MS PC. But Author of surfacevision.com didn't get on with it.
    • CoreFTP allows encrypted uploading that works completely fine with Berklix's servers.
      A graphical (not CLI=Command Line Interpreter) tool. Rec. by surfacevision.com
  • Other Software
    Free Software offers lots of ways to escape Microsoft Extra notes here.

• Domains have extra functionality also available for purchase by our commercial domains.
• Free domains have restrictions & mandatory requirements you Must abide with:
• • Free domains aren't available for strangers, so don't ask. There are particular reasons each domain is served free.
  • Business in start up phase, Domain owner will volunteer to pay money later when/ if turnover improves.
  • Give credit in some way to Berklix & or associate support companies & personnel or free software organisations, on main & some sub pages eg scattered URLs or Logos In Footers, whoever you want
  • Contribute back in some way, perhaps by giving credit via click-able URLs, paying cash, linking business pages, or contributing to the businesses & or public free source code projects who all support domain serving.
  • If as a convenience I supply my name & address for registration of your domain, you Must keep me updated with your current address, phone fax & email etc for forwarding. This is a registrar's requirement, fail & your domain can be struck off.
  • Do promptly acknowledge receipt of email headed eg "I write this as your domain hosting provider. Please confirm receipt." Doesn't need to be long, but do reply. If I give valuable time & resources to run your domain for free, & you ignore me, & don't reply, I should save time & resources by dumping domains.
  • Do not be hostile to the objectives of free public source code projects - Example: Do Not provide data only in Microsoft proprietary format. Even if you sell hardware that needs executables that only run on Microsoft (bad enough!), & later buyers will need an MS box or tools to use your products (sad!). People, including public source code proponents, like to read product descriptions on line, using the software of their, not your choice, (& that might include BSD, Linux, VMS, Mac, or some old CP/M box, or might be a blind person running a text mode non graphical browser with custom interfaces that Do exist). If you only provide on line as product description, a manual in Microsoft proprietary format, that is Offensive to us, as it promotes the Microsoft monopoly, to even browse the web to find out what your product is.
  • Use SSH & SFTP capable remote login & web page up-loader client tools to maintain your pages. We Berklix have no interest in degrading your & our security by allowing login & FTP access for domain owners who aren't paying us Berklix money. BSD & Linux of course come with ssh & sftp included. Free public domain & commercial SFTP client programs exist, Lots for Microsoft. Either use a search engine to find them, with keywords such as "ssh.exe", "sftp.exe", or "ssh and sftp", or look at other tools that also work, lot available, I can't be bothered to maintain many URLs but try eg
• Termination:
  • We Berklix may terminate without notice for breach of rules.
  • We Berklix may terminate with notice for any reason, (eg Perhaps because your business has grown & should now contribute something but does not.)
  • Berklix declines to waste valuable work time unpaid, to prematurely deconstruct an owner's domain. De-construction is in fact just another config change, takes time & is not work to be demanded unpaid, but work we Berklix may choose to do if/when We Berklix have time. (Premature de-construction could disrupt owner's business, &/or might later be cited in a false complaint of unprofessional service termination).
  • Domains terminate to schedule, not prematurely.
  • Domain Owner is solely responsible for any failure to designate any successor provider for Berklix to hand over to.
• Domain certificates may document dates of warnings given of termination of service, where an owner may be idle, ignoring warnings, or similar.

• Occasionally Berklix may register a domain for others, they're sometimes left in Berklix associate names for convenience. We (JHS, Berklix & Associates) all disclaim all responsibility for all domain content, (refer first to owner about that (try webmaster@whatever_domain ).
• We (JHS, Berklix & Associates) disclaim any responsibility for business disruption to domain owners, users, customers, suppliers etc, when We Berklix occasionally terminate domains for eg { failure to abide by free provision conditions etc ( http://www.berklix.net/Default/berklix/free_domains.html ) , failure to pay, or any other reason }. Unpaid domains have no contractural obligations on our side for continuance, content, reliability or anything else.
  We Berklix expect some credit for configuring & serving certain domains free. We Berklix hope some of the small businesses we Berklix help may may make money & employ our commercial services later.
• Domain owners can contract whoever they want (including http://www.berklix.com or others) to serve their domains , but if leaving should tell us Berklix so We Berklix can adjust configurations. JHS may answer phone or email to confirm who owns domains. JHS does not donate his time unpaid, to fill in forms for other providers or unpaid domain owners.

• Full commercial service domains are also available, at commercial rates, with none of the above restrictions.

We do Not compete with down market, cheap, robotised, German language operated, standardised restrictive, few Euros a month services offered in computer magazines to individuals & tiny companies on minimal budgets. We Berklix do not run software to issue & collect lots of tiny bills to lots of people each month. We Berklix do not deal with our customers by the thousand via impenetrable advert laden web forms. With us Berklix you get a highly skilled human, English speaking (or German too if needed), not a cheap restrictive form to a robot. No point contacting us Berklix for an offer in the ultra cheap few- euros a month price bracket
Enquiries Welcome