It's a free hosting service offered to Branches and Specialist Groups of the BCS.
You can build dynamic pages using Perl, PHP and MySQL; or use existing software which exploits those functions (if the release levels are compatible).
FrontPage extensions and ASP are also said to be supported although I have not tested them.
To post your site to your BCS virtual server, you have to use FTP.
In our case, I do “ftp www.oxon.bcs.org” and login with my adminuserid.
On connecting, I am in the /users/adminuserid directory.
To get to the directory which represents my website I need to do the following:
I can then upload my files in the normal way.
Log files are stored for you in the /logs directory:
Individual daily logs are built up in the 2004 subdirectory – whose permissions don't allow reading – but the accumulated daily logs are in the web.log and ftp.log files which are zipped on a monthly basis.
I'm sure that webmasters of branches and SGs must have some requirements in common.
I've started a !/Shared Tools page in the hope that others will contribute ideas, recommendations and even code.
http://www.bcs.org/templates/hosting/docs.htm
!/Shared Tools