Frequently Asked Questions

The NearlyFreeSpeech.NET FAQ (*)

Technology (*)

Do you support PHP? FastCGI? SSI?

What database software do you support?

What common web applications and frameworks work with your system?

Do you support TLS for member sites?

Yes.

Sites hosted on our service are automatically secured with Let's Encrypt certificates. Setting them up and renewing them is taken care of by our system without the need for you to do anything. (Well, anything but get your site's DNS and aliases to work correctly. If the public can get to your site, Let's Encrypt can typically secure it.) Let's Encrypt is a free service, but they do accept charitable donations that are (to the best of our knowledge) tax-deductible where allowed by law.

TLS on our system is implemented using the SNI (Server Name Indication) extension, and we enforce the use of strong, modern security algorithms. All of that is well-supported on current browsers and hardware. Very old hardware and software that no longer receive security updates may not be able to interoperate with our systems. If you have a requirement to support an outdated device or software package that requires obsolete, known-insecure versions of SSL, we can't help with that.

Our implementation of TLS has not been audited for, and we do not support its use for the following:

Can I use .htaccess files to customize my web server configuration?

May I install other types of server applications that are not web-based?

What type of control panel do you use?

What software can I use to access your system?

What are the most common things that do not work on your system?

Why don't you offer static IP addresses?

Does 'NearlyFreeSpeech.NET DNS' support subdomains?

What is your hosting network like?

How big is a gigabyte?

How many MySQL databases can I have?

What sort of spam protection does your email forwarding provide?

What kind of hardware and OS will my site be running on?

Do you support IPv6?