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Internode broadband customers are eligible for 50 MB of Personal Webspace. Learn how to upload files to create your own (non-commercial) personal website.

If you have an Internode broadband service, you are eligible for 50 MB of complimentary non-commercial webserver space. This space is available immediately - you simply need an FTP client and the connection details below.

Personal Webspace is only available to Internode broadband customers, and is for PERSONAL, NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY. Commercial webspace can be rented from Internode for a competitive fee (see our Business Web Hosting pages).

Connection Details

You will need a FTP client to publish your website to Internode's web server. The FTP connection details for Personal Webspace are as follows:

FTP Server/Hostname ftp.users.on.net
Username Username of your dialup or broadband account.
Do not include @internode.on.net
Password Password of your dialup or broadband account.
URL/Webpage Address http://www.users.on.net/~username/
Initial Remote Folder Leave this field blank.
When you log on, you will be in the 'root' directory, where you will upload your webpages and images, etc.

This information defines your website, and allows only people with the username and password to change the web pages. You are welcome to change your website as much as you like, free of charge. As soon as you have a working site, with valid HTML pages, you can start having visitors. Your URL or website address is as shown - http://www.users.on.net/~username.

Usage Details

  • Your webspace is hosted on a UNIX system. File names are cAsE sensitive, and should not contain any spaces.
  • The first/home page of your website should be called index.htm, or index.html, or index.php.
  • The file system on the users.on.net server is CaSe SeNsiTiVe - that is, INDEX.HTM and index.htm are viewed as two different files. We suggest that you make sure that all files and HTML are in lowercase.

Important Notes

  • Internode reserves the right to disable an individual's personal webspace if it is found to be negatively impacting other customers or overall system performance.
  • Internode reserves the right to disable an individual's personal webspace if it is found that the site's content is of a commercial or business nature, and/or does not adhere to any other terms and conditions as outlined in our Customer Relationship Agreement.

Application Support

The information contained below is for users with advanced knowledge of web and scripting. If you don't understand the information below, it's likely that you don't need to know about it.

Features mentioned below are subject to change.

The following are supported

  • Apache 2.0.x Web Server
  • PHP-CGI (version 5)
  • Perl 5.8 (Path is: /usr/bin/perl )

The following are not supported

  • Databases (such as MySQL and PostgreSQL)
  • PHP Uploads
  • Writing to a file (for example, fwrite)
  • Synchronising via rsync or any other communication method except FTP.

If you need applications that are not supported on personal webspace, you will need commercial webspace. See our Business Web Hosting pages for more information.

PHP Information

You will need to make your PHP scripts executable so they run properly. We recommend permissions of 705 or 755. If your permissions are not set, this will likely result in an 'internal server error' message.

The following support is enabled in PHP:

  • JPEG
  • PNG
  • TIFF
  • Freetype
  • GD
  • FTP
  • BCmath
  • wddx
  • DB4
  • Zlib
  • Calendar
  • Expat

For more information, please create a phpinfo page. Simply copy the below code, save it as phpinfo.php, upload it to your webspace, then look at the file in a web browser.

 

What's the path to my home directory?

You can find the path to your home directory when you log in to Personal Webspace via FTP. The path is presented in the FTP welcome message, for example:

230-
230-Last updated: Wed Aug 24 12:11:45 CST 2005
230-Homedirectory: /webspace/users.on.net/data/A1/23/A123456/.
230-Diskusage: 9344 kbytes
230-
230 Login successful.