Strato Offers WebStarter Free for Five Months

LONDON, July 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

 Building Your Own Website Was Never Easier With Anniversary Offer

Strato, Europe's second largest web hosting and applications provider, is celebrating five years of doing business in the UK by offering the site builder WebStarter free of charge for five months. WebStarter is designed for individuals, clubs and business startups who want to build their first website, e.g. a jewellery designer working from home, a sports team, or a student union. No technical skills are required for the homepage site builder and users can choose their favourite domain (.co.uk, .org.uk, etc.). The offer is part of a 12-month contract where customers pay £3.90* per month after the initial five-month period. The offer runs until 31 July 2011. For more information go to strato-hosting.co.uk/site-builder.  

With WebStarter, building a website can be accomplished in five easy steps: define a topic, choose your design, set a structure, develop content and publish with one click. Users have unlimited data traffic, 25 email accounts, 20 web pages and free support via a hotline or email along with an extensive FAQ database. Integration of photos and video is simple with Strato Photo Album and Easy Video, which transfers videos into Flash format ensuring a seamless viewing experience. Moreover, users are able to monitor and analyse visits to their website with web statistics that identify its strengths and weaknesses in an easy-to-use spreadsheet.  For more advanced users, hosting packages are also available free of charge for the first five months, including packages from BasicWeb to EnterpriseWeb with 2GB to 50GB of web space, 1000 to 6000 email accounts and up to five domains.

Damian Schmidt, CEO of Strato, commented, "With WebStarter, anyone can set up professional looking website in just a few clicks. Whether users run a club, a growing business or are just setting up a website to test an idea, WebStarter is the right product. It is designed to be incredibly easy to use and we've built in some very useful analytics so users can see how their website is performing and where it could be improved."

Strato's site builder and all its web hosting packages come with security features including antivirus & antispam and a phishing filter. Strato customers will also get five free credits when they download images and illustrations from Fotolia and an additional 25% bonus for further purchases.

Notes to Editors:

*Price excludes VAT.

About STRATO

STRATO, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, is Europe's second-largest web hosting and web application provider. Its services include online hard disks, all-in-one web hosting packages, dedicated and virtual servers and hosted business software such as online shops. STRATO has over 1.4 million customer contracts in six countries and hosts 4 million domains in two ISO-certified, climate-neutral data centres.

SOURCE STRATO AG