Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

Well I have my website elsewhere but I think in about a years time a few people will get caught out thinking it's still free. So long as it's not a minimum two year contract or more, it'd be worth a punt, remembering to cancel before the free year is up.

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

You can't be serious? I've had "ggrider.ntlworld.com" since March 2002 and carefully preserved all it's historical website untouched for posterity and now VM are deleting it! Have they no sense of nostalgia?

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

I would say if you're planning to run your site for more than 12 months, bite the bullet now and buy yourself the domain and hosting space from someone else. I've been very happy with Namecheap and their prices are reasonable.

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

I dont even know what Smartcall is (or was).

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

App for your phone that would let you call over Wifi using your Virgin Home Phone plan, i.e. if you had talk unlimited it would let you make use of that from your phone, regardless of what minutes you had on your mobile contract.

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

I can see email going away soon too

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

Had my own hosted domains since 1999, even the VM account address forwards to them.

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

I was asked to check VMs Newsgroups for a neighbour. I could hardly remember how to access it, but found what he was complaining about: several of the bigger groups have been removed. So I wonder now if Newsgroups will be the next to go?

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

I'd be surprised if they did this, but not that surprised. I think most people on this forum will agree that having an ISP email is utterly useless in this day and age. The free alternatives from Google, Microsoft, etc. are far superior and won't tie you into your ISP.


Virgin's newsgroups have limited retention (I think it's 30 days, it used to be just 7) and their reseller gets hit hard with takedown requests, so you have to be fast. It's worth paying the $10 a month for a better service.

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

Following a recommendation on here, I moved my domains to HostPresto! It's only about £20 for domain and hosting and the service has been excellent, two domains can be hosted and email accounts are unlimited.

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

Smartcall is extremely useful in calling back home to landlines when out of the country. We use it quite a lot, so it definitely will be missed by us and others who use it the same way :(.

I gave up my web space years ago, and I could never get all of my computer to back up to their cloud, so I personally won't miss those, but I'm sure other users who rely on them will. It's really much notice for backing up and finding new alternatives and the potential time involved for people on the slower end of the technology scale like me. So I'm grateful I'm not using those two things

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

i threw the letter out....i didnt even know there was a code. and ive got no email...how do i get a new one?

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

I only kept a few car based pictures in the web space for the convenience of linking to them on another forum where I post under my real name. (The web space URL gives your name and default e-mail addy away) The threads are quite old so the absence of the pictures is unlikely to be a problem. Attaches work as well for this anyway.

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

FWIW I'll see if any SU on VM forum is going to use mine, if not I'll PM you in a week with it. :angel:

I can't actually use it as BenMcr forget's that originally NTLWORLD domain users could have (and guess what) 15 email ID's and the max is now 10 !!! So unfortunately there's no way for me to move a webspace id to virginmedia domain without losing 6 email ID's! :mad:

....and before Ben predictably asks me to escalate to VM Support to do it for me then: do I really look/sound/write that stupid? (OK no need to answer that! :dunce: ).

That said I predicted VM would terminate Webspace back in 2009, 2 yrs after their re-branding but even LG in 2013 gave them another two years grace.
Despite their re-assurances then VM email ID's will not be continued when the current OSA contract runs out as that is also not in LG's mission roadmap, So I give that another 2-5 yrs before that goes the same way!
OK as my previous prediction was at least 2yrs out then say 3-6yrs. :rolleyes:

Re: Smartcall, Virgin Media Cloud and Webspace closure
 

Our speedtest code (in the navbar) is actually hosted on my VM webspace.
This was done at the time (10+ years ago) so that it ran internally on the VM network.

I guess I could move it, but actually, there are so many proper speedtests around these days, its probably a good excuse to retire them.