Free Hosting for Charities

If you are approved charity by the Minister by notice published in the Gazette of Sri Lanka, you’re fully eligible for request free hosting account. Even if you aren’t registered as nonprofit or charity, but your sole purpose is charitable which meet out our considering criteria, then you also can request free hosting account.

At this time, HostAmmo’s free charity hosting is provided to charities which meet our criteria outlined below. Acceptance onto the program is at our sole discretion.

Our preset criteria is as follows:-

1. The charity deals with a range of work that appeals to us.
2. The charity has no ulterior motive – e.g. religious teachings or political leanings.
3. The charity, or it’s parent/affiliated charity or charities, appears to do some actual good and does not just hoard money or spend it frivolously.
4. The charity, or it’s parent/affiliated charity or charities, does not pay its staff an excessive level of remuneration.

HostAmmo is primarily interested in supporting charities that deal with,

• Poverty and the effects of poverty; that provide learning support or youthwork (excluding schools, nurseries, playgroups, booster clubs, parent teacher associations)
• Promote arts and culture
• Work in the health, medical or legal sectors
• Work with ex-offenders or in victim support
• Work in animal or nature conservation
• Work in international development, disaster relief or human rights
• Local sports clubs and organizations (with the exception of those which are chapters, branches or in some way affiliated with a larger movement, such the Scout/Guide movement or other such national or international movements).

Provided they meet our other criteria, we may accept charities that do not fall under these definitions at our sole discretion.

We regret that we cannot accept Scout/Guide groups (or similar movements) or Schools for free charity web hosting, but we’d love to help you with our Special Unlimited cloud web hosting package for Government Schools, Educational Institutes.

At this time HostAmmo do not accept applications from charities with a religious or political purpose, either overt, or ulterior. We may permit some charities who are affiliated with religious organizations, mainly because they are very often responsible for running really good and worthy causes, provided that religious teaching is not part of the charity’s function. Acceptance of charities with religious affiliation is at our sole discretion.

We will not accept any charities with any political affiliation whatsoever. If we realized even after any registered hosting account support, motivated or connected to any political party HostAmmo will discontinued the service without any prior notice.

We only want to support charities that we feel demonstrate financial responsibility. This is particularly true in large charities. We do not believe a charity, which by definition is dependent on donations and support from the general public, should be shown to hoard money or spend it frivolously.

Each application is considered independently, and acceptance shall be at HostAmmo’s sole discretion. Successful applications are subject to periodic review.

Free for forever, until your sole purpose is charitable.

No, It’s not mandatory, but If you can register of transfer your domain to us, this may as well be us – doing so helps us cover some nominal raw costs we incur in providing this service for free. What’s more, we’re very affordable for domains and you may even pay less with us than you pay another registrar.

The HostAmmo Charity Host plan will be suitable for the vast majority of charity web sites up to around 100,000 visitors per month. If you’re a much larger charity, we can provide more advanced hosting solutions. Get in touch and let us know about your web site, and we’ll let you know what additional fees may apply. Of course, we’ll include a hefty discount to ensure you never pay a penny more than you have to.

Absolutely. HostAmmo support is the cornerstone of our success, and we’re fanatical about providing expert support. We provide the same service level to the charities we host for free as we do our paying customers.

Of course! We’ll provide a free web site transfer service so your existing web site comes across without a hassle.

We set up charity hosting accounts manually as we need to carefully vet all applicants to make sure they are legitimate charities. Assuming you qualify, we should be able to get you set up within a few hours. If you have an existing web site, we should be able to migrate it across for you within 24 hours.

We’d love you to! Any blog posts, tweets or social media posts to this page will be hugely appreciated. We have no limit on the number of charities we can host and we’d like to help as many as possible. Please contact us if you have any specific ideas to help spread the word.

If you’re a qualifying charity, we’d love to host your web site. All that we ask in return is that:
You help us to promote this initiative with a very small text link back to this page in your web site footer. In addition, we’d love any shout outs on social media or on your blog if you have one.
We also require your permission to add your logo to hostammo.com and provide you with a link back to your web site, though we are under no obligation to do so.