Comments on: Free Website Hosting for Non-Profits

By: How I Upgraded My Church Website For Almost Nothing | ChurchCrunch

How I Upgraded My Church Website For Almost Nothing | ChurchCrunch — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:56:07 +0000

[...] to have a pretty decent site for a church overall.As I began to think about my options, I recalled this post here on Church Crunch. I didn’t do anything about it for a long time. A few weeks ago, [...]

By: Roma Sing

Roma Sing — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:40:03 +0000

Although I wasn't qualified to be a non for profit the proceeds to my first book goes exclusively to the childrens' ministry in my church. Does this hosting provider or any other qualify me for use of their services? (joyfuljournies on twitter.) http://www.gachisites.com/

By: human3rror

human3rror — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:19:03 +0000

sweet! good deal, eh?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:09:41 +0000

FWIW, I work at Granger Community Church and we applied for and received free hosting at Dreamhost over a year ago. It's great and we use it for all kinds of mini-sites/temporary projects, etc.

By: Free Webhosting for Your Church or 501-3C Website - Godvertiser.com

Free Webhosting for Your Church or 501-3C Website - Godvertiser.com — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:00:00 +0000

[...] seems that according to our friendly neighborhood church media super hero, DreamHost offers non-profits a fully free webhosting account [HT: Thanks [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:08:47 +0000

Free hosting on Dreamhost is specifically for corporations who have received a 501(c)3 letter from the IRS. MOST churches do not have that letter. When the 501(c)3 status was implemented (back in the 70's I think), churches were grandfathered in. That means they ARE 501(c)3, but do NOT have a letter. The letter is what Dreamhost requires. In order to be a full-fledged 501(c)3 – with a letter – you have to go through the application process, including a $750 fee.

That made getting the letter not worth it for us. But I had already switched to Dreamhost before I discovered all this. Still – Dreamhost has been great and I would highly recommend them.

By: Josh Brage

Josh Brage — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:42:32 +0000

john thanks once again for the great heads up! I have been using dreamhost for multiple churches and other non-profits for a few years now and never caught this! Thanks!

By: human3rror

human3rror — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:13:04 +0000

Tim,

thanks for this clarification! that's very helpful.

By: Bobbi Perreault

Bobbi Perreault — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:54:46 +0000

I specialize in Microsoft technologies. .NET, Sql Server. The website I linked to in my post is built with Asp.Net, and my hosting service is ran off of a Windows server. But I do have on that server MySQL on it and also some PHP.

By: Marshall Jones Jr.

Marshall Jones Jr. — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:33:07 +0000

Thanks so much. I'm speading the word. I had heard that dreamhost was fantastic anyway, though I'm still currently with bluehost. This info is particularly useful for small churches.

Marshall