{"id":10505,"date":"2014-04-03T23:42:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T23:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/apr\/04\/flint-hosts-offer-charities-free-shared-and-discounted-cloud-hosting\/"},"modified":"2014-04-03T23:42:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T23:42:27","slug":"flint-hosts-to-offer-charities-free-shared-and-discounted-cloud-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/flint-hosts-to-offer-charities-free-shared-and-discounted-cloud-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Flint Hosts to offer charities free shared and discounted cloud hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based hosting provider Flint Hosts has announced the launch of Flint|Charity, a service which offers free shared hosting and discounted cloud hosting to charities.<\/p>\n<p>The free shared package allows for up to 1GB of storage, one hour of free technical support and a name check from the company, while the cloud package offers the requisite name check, hosting on Flint&rsquo;s enterprise level platform at a 50% discount with fully managed service.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Hopkinson, Flint Hosts managing director, believes having things fully managed will be essential for charities.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A lot of providers will just give you the server, which is often a headache,&rdquo; he told <em>CloudTech<\/em>. &ldquo;We take that worry out of their hands, manage it all for them, and our systems are as secure as they reasonably can be.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hopkinson explained that this philanthropic approach had &ldquo;always been part of the ethos of the business.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We did a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based hosting provider Flint Hosts has announced the launch of Flint|Charity, a service which offers free shared hosting and discounted cloud hosting to charities.<br \/>\nThe free shared package allows for up to 1GB of storage, one hour of free technical s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}