Support and Development Site
28 October 2026 · FreeToastHost
FreeToastHost (FTH) provides club websites that members, officers, and prospective members depend on. Keeping those websites available and protecting access to club information requires controls against spam, automated attacks, and other misuse. FTH does not support access through VPN services, and many VPN IP addresses …
21 August 2026 · Peter Baumgarten
On Wednesday and Thursday, October 28 & 29, 6:30 - 8 pm EDT, Join FTH Ambassador Peter Baumgarten for a ZOOM training session to introduce FreeToastHost 4 and answer your questions. Click here to Register The sessions will open at 6:10 pm. Space is ZOOM-limited …
4 June 2026 · Jane Atkinson
Things to do at officer changeover time The end of the Toastmasters year is approaching, and with it comes changes to club officer assignments. To keep things running smoothly, check the following items and change where necessary. Full details are found in the linked articles. …
24 May 2026 · Jane Atkinson
The FTH agenda system can be used to create Club Contest agendas. The method for creating them is the same as used for ordinary meeting agendas. However there are some things to be aware of, and you may need to make more use of special …
27 December 2025 · Jane Atkinson
Toastmasters International, as the name suggests, is an international organisation, present in over 140 countries. Official materials are available in several languages. But like many other organisations, it started its life as an English-only group and the requirements of speakers of other languages weren't on …
7 December 2025 · Richard Taylor
The report of my FTH’s death was an exaggeration! (with apologies to Mark Twain) The purpose of this blog post is to provide an overview of recent and ongoing efforts by the FTH team to ensure this service can meet the needs of Toastmasters Clubs. …
25 November 2025 · Jane Atkinson
During October-November 2025, the FreeToastHost club and district websites had frequent episodes of being either inaccessible or extremely slow to load. This was caused by several different things: inefficiencies in the database operations large amounts of unwanted traffic from hackers and poorly-behaved search engine and …