Frequently Asked Questions

Welcome to calodges.org!

Who owns CALODGES.ORG?

This domain is owned by the Grand Lodge of California, Free and Accepted Masons. The registered Administrative contact with the InterNIC is the Grand Secretary.

Who operates CALODGES.ORG?

This domain is operated by the IT department of Grand Lodge, which reports to the Grand Secretary on matters appertaining to this domain.

Can we move our domain name over for hosting by Grand Lodge?

While we cannot host your domain name as we are not an ISP, we can however host your website using your Lodge's existing domain name. Thus, if your existing domain name is mylodge.org we can host your web site as www.mylodge.org.

As this can get fairly technical, please contact technical support for details if you are interested in this capability.

What web editing software do you support?

We offer "FTP" accounts which can support almost any web editor that is currently avaialble. If you are looking to get started, feel free to check out the free product KompoZer.

Do you do backups of my site for me?

In a word- no. Please do not count on us to provide backups of your Lodge web site. This is a free hosting service for your Lodge and we count on the individual Lodge webmaster to keep his own backups.