Great - you can do it for much less though.
Blogger (part of google) is free
freevirtualservers does domain names for about £8 and they'll do you a
site for nothing
Mark
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> There seems to be some interest in developing a more sophisticated CP
> networking resource on the Internet. I have counted about 10 messages of
> support for the idea, and no objections in principle, although a few
> people have suggested some areas where we have to be cautious. Several
> people have offered to help out or take on board tasks.
>
> The first step is to secure a domain and ownership of some web space -
> space that is 'owned' collectively by the list, however we eventually
> decide to organise. I will make enquiries this week coming, and there is
> no reason why we shouldn't be up and ready to go within a week or two
> weeks.
>
> After that, we can perhaps prioritise development of the two tools that
> seem to have attracted most support - Paul and Alison's ideas about a
> wiki, and some kind of social networking software. If all goes well I
> will set up a front page CP blog, and try to get some free software so
> that we can offer an open threaded discussion forum. I guess we don't want
> to get too ambitious to start with though.
>
> The following issues seem to me to be quite important to get right early
> on so it would be good to hear what people think about:
>
> ::: Funding. Loosely speaking, a basic service will cost £150 a year, I
> think £200 would be a more sensible estimate, and if our hub generates
> lots of traffic, it could cost more long term. We currently have no
> formal organisation and the only funds I know of are the £1000 seed money
> for our conferences, it is probably important to protect that. David has
> offered to help out with a donation, and I don't mind putting some start
> up cash in personally. We could rely on a 4 or 5 big donations of £30 or
> £50, or ask for 20 £5 memberships? I just don't know what is right - but
> am sure we can manage to get a start up going and worry about the long
> term in the long term if the idea is successful.
>
> ::: Communications. Do people on the list feel all the discussions about
> this should to be carried out on the list, with everyone party to all the
> technical discussion (for example, should we install free software that we
> can customise and that is advert free, or use readym
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