Option 1: www.yourunit.bsaedelweiss.de
(free)

The Edelweiss District can provide its scouting units free space on its web server.

•  Your URL would be www.yourunit.bsaedelweiss.de, e.g. www.pack48.bsaedelweiss.de
• You would have your own FTP account so your unit's webmaster could directly manage your site over any internet connection
• You could have e-mail forwarders, e.g. webmaster@pack48.bsaedelweiss.de that could forward mail to one or more a normal e-mail accounts
• form-mailer script so you can post forms on your site and have the results sent to a mail box
• Submissions to forms can be encrypted with https access, so the information remains confidential

Restrictions:

• Unit web sites should be no larger than 5 megabytes
• The Edelweiss District Webmaster will always have full access to the files you post
  

Option 2: www.yourunit.de
(48 euro per year)

Free is nice, but some units may like to have a web address which is easy for people to remember and can be spoken over the telephone or radio, or they may have a lot of information which they would like to post to the internet. For this you would need your own domain name, e.g. www.troop40.de and a web host.

I am very happy with the offer from, www.domainfactory.de. I did a lot of hunting for web hosts and domain hosts, and this was the best offer I could find.  The correspondence and the administration interface is in German, but the tech support is easy to reach and speaks enough English to answer your questions.

There are of course hundreds of other companies who can make you an offer on hosting your domain name and web site.  Try searching for "domain host" in your favorite search engine.

Option 3: www.yourunit.de (free): Run a web server from home

If you have a DSL internet connection and an extra computer, you can do everything and more for free from home.This approach has its advantages and disadvantages. http://www.dslwebserver.com