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ngazidja · 02-01-2008, 16:27

It's nothing worth paying for, just personal stuff. But I'm surprised Virgin have anyone using their space with a policy like that. I mean, if I go away for the weekend I can't even access my website!

Years ago I spent some time in France and had pages on free.fr. A couple of years after I moved back to Australia free.fr decided that you could only ftp to their pages if your IP address was in France (didn't have to be free.fr, just physically in France). Imagine the fuss (the French are good at fuss)! I'd been using my pages for teaching and had confidential student stuff there (password protected, of course) but I couldn't even log on to delete it.

Didn't last long of course, and I can now use my free.fr webspace sitting here at my desk in London. Fortunately, it seems.

02-01-2008, 16:27	#5
ngazidja Inactive Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 25	Re: can't ftp to upload.virgin.net It's nothing worth paying for, just personal stuff. But I'm surprised Virgin have anyone using their space with a policy like that. I mean, if I go away for the weekend I can't even access my website! Years ago I spent some time in France and had pages on free.fr. A couple of years after I moved back to Australia free.fr decided that you could only ftp to their pages if your IP address was in France (didn't have to be free.fr, just physically in France). Imagine the fuss (the French are good at fuss)! I'd been using my pages for teaching and had confidential student stuff there (password protected, of course) but I couldn't even log on to delete it. Didn't last long of course, and I can now use my free.fr webspace sitting here at my desk in London. Fortunately, it seems.