Services listing

GreenNet broadband

GreenNet’s ethical broadband service (ranked by Ethical Consumer) provides a fully supported ADSL service. Details of our starter packages can be found on this page, or call us for info on SDSL, unlimited & un-metered broadband or organisational packages.

GreenNet email

GreenNet members have been depending on our stable and secure email service since we first set up shop in 1986. More than 20 years on, email is still at the heart of the services we provide.

Web projects

GreenNet web projects are all about planning, designing, building and hosting websites that work for you and the issues you’re working on.

Aleutia E2 Mini PC - Ubuntu

The Aleutia E2 Mini PC is primarily designed for use in extreme environments with scarce access to electricity, but is just as at home on an office desk or for personal use to browse the internet, for word processing, Excel spreadsheets, etc. offering your a massive reduction on your electricity usage, therefore helping you reduce your carbon footprint and effect on the environment while saving you money! In fact, we’ve done the maths, 95% less electricity! See the example below for details…

Aleutia E2 Mini PC - Windows XP

Don’t feel you’re ready to try out a new operating system, or are simply not yet convinced it’s for you?

Licensed and activated XP Home Pre-Installed. Whopping 250GB Internal Hard Drive and 1GB RAM. Fast and Familiar. £389.

Database enabling (MySQL)

GreenNet’s database enabling service is designed for hosting websites that are built on a dynamic model where pages are served up from a database as users call for them.
Database enabling allows you to use your website, not only for static files of html web pages, but also for any kind of PHP/CGI system to pull information out of a database and display results on the web.

Dial-up Internet access

For a pay-as-you-go dial-up solution to connect to the internet via a local rate access (0844) and fully supported by phone and email.

Discussion boards

A discussion board is an online tool that provides a simple and intuituve way for a group of people to respond to discussion topics.

Domain names

A domain name is a unique name that identifies you or your organisation on the Internet. It is registered in the form of yourname.co.uk or yourname.org.uk, yourname.net or yourname.com or yourname.org. You choose which form you prefer depending on the nature of your organisation or content. The domain can then be used for your e-mail adresses e.g username@yourname.org.uk and web site URLs e.g www.yourname.org.uk depending on the package you have chosen.
All of our web hosting options (except Home/Activist membership, which includes a .gn.apc.org subdomain) come with a domain name registration and include annual renewal.

Domain parking

For domain names you may want to use later.

Domain service

For your additional web site and E-mail address.

Fixed rate Internet access (FRIACO)

For a fixed rate dial-up connection to the internet (note that this requires a BT line)

Global roaming (iPass)

For connecting to the internet in over 100 countries.

green dot partnership scheme

green dot is a new affinity scheme from GreenNet designed to promote ethical connectivity for home and business users. Building on our long history of providing ethical email and web services, green dot is open to all of our members interested in alternative approaches to raising funds and awareness.

When you partner with GreenNet using green dot, you get to offer your supporters internet access and a chunk of your supporters’ broadband bill goes straight to you. green dot broadband comes with all the usual high speed, specs and unrivaled support – why support the big corporations when you can surf and support with green dot!

email us at: greendot@gn.apc.org to find out more.

Home/Activist membership

This package is designed to meet the online needs of individual home users. It includes your own sub-domain style email address and web site URL.

Home/Activist Plus membership

For your own domain name, E-mail address and web site.

Intranets

Intranets are a great way to share information and tools to help people work together in a team, especially when that team is spread out geographically.

Linux desktop training

TuxYou may have heard us banging on from time to time, about going Open – kicking the Microsoft habit, and exploring the friendlier (often also safer) world of Linux-based technologies. Well there’s never been a better time to make the shift

Mailing lists

Mailing lists are cheap and efficient way of distributing information on a large scale and to set up your own discussion forums.

Maxi membership

For complex and extensive web sites

Organisational membership

For larger organisations with more experience of using the Internet for professional advantage and for Individuals and organisations keen to customise their presence on the Internet.

Features:

  • Registration of a Domain Name i.e. yourname.org.uk. You can choose between domains ending in: .org, .com, or .net and .org.uk or .co.uk
  • Web site www.yourname.org.uk with 500MB of web space
  • Unlimited Domain style E-mail addresses e.g. username@yourname.org.uk. These can be forwarded to any real E-mail address or to:
  • 20 E-mail accounts i.e.
Password protected web site area

If you are running a static website, and would like a part of it to be private to a particular group or groups of people, we can set up password protection for those sections.

Server hosting

GreenNet’s Systems Administration and Support department provides hosting on our shared web server, and for dedicated and virtual servers.

Small Group membership

For smaller organisations wanting a professional presence on the web

Web hosting

GreenNet offers a web hosting service which allows you to build a web site for the widest internet audience. All GreenNet websites are hosted on high performance Linux/Apache servers on the Internet backbone. These servers support PHP and CGI scripting and MySQL databases. The search engine is Ht://Dig. See our server hosting section for more details.

Web projects with ActionApps

ActionApps is a content management system (CMS) that made it possible for GreenNet to offer low-cost database driven websites which focused on maximising attention to content and minimised the effort needed to get it online. It was GreenNet’s first CMS, developed in 2000 by a group of techies from the APC network, and designed to meet the needs of civil society organisations wanting a dynamic presence on the web.

Web projects with Drupal

GreenNet’s current CMS of choice is Drupal. It is an open source system for developing websites and publishing content to them. A Drupal website has at its heart a database of the site’s content (articles, reports, profiles, events etc..). The system serves content from the database to the right pages of the site in the appropriate style, as they are called for by site users.

Wikis

A wiki is a really simple to use online collaborative workspace. It looks like a website, is accessible through any internet-connected computer, and behaves like a group drafting table.

Featured services

GreenNet broadband

GreenNet’s ethical broadband service (ranked by Ethical Consumer) provides a fully supported ADSL service. Details of our starter packages can be found on this page, or call us for info on SDSL, unlimited & un-metered broadband or organisational packages.

Web projects

GreenNet web projects are all about planning, designing, building and hosting websites that work for you and the issues you’re working on.

GreenNet email

GreenNet members have been depending on our stable and secure email service since we first set up shop in 1986. More than 20 years on, email is still at the heart of the services we provide.