Hi, does anyone know the best Website Host(free) to go with? I've got to the point where I am tired of Tripod. Thanks.
Really depends on what you want to do. Most free hosts suck - they will have any of the following: limited space limited bandwidth popups spyware occasional virii/spyware infested popups e-mail address selling spamming If you want your site to look good, and expect a few visitors, Geocities looks amateur and will keep shutting your site down due to bandwidth allocation being used. Go for a cheap paid hosting if you can. If you are in the UK or the US, then I would recommend !&1. They do a cheap package for only a couple of pounds/dollars a month. If you want to go for this (to anyone - for domains or hosting, or just e-mail hosting), I would urge you to go through my link below: http://www.1and1.co.uk/?k_id=6165863 :smt023
Hosts I was slowly piecing together a site that I was gonna put on My.Shyper (I'd heard great things about them), but I guess they've recently shut down the free side of things, I suppose that happens when you let a public prone to abusing free file hosting bandwidth have free unlimited hosting. The other thing I've heard pretty good things about is MixCat. http://www.mixcat.com/hosting/free.html ~Krelian
If you have a broadband connection, an always-on computer and an ISP that doesn't block port 80 you can host your own site. Unlimited storage, no usage restrictions, and you can add your own scripts and whatever other madness you want. NFG Games is run on a server in my basement. I use Abyss webserver (free), Perl (free), PHP (free) and some other crap. Nearly made 10 million hits this year, and I didn't pay a dime when slashdot, boingboing or other high-traffic sites linked me and sent the bandwidth soaring. If you're not stupid it's really easy to do. Start here: http://www.aprelium.com
I was originally using Tripod. Then they started to suck, so I moved to Easyspace. They just canned their free web hosting, so I've moved here. I've gotten around 70MB of space, and the entry requirements is you have to post 20 (decent) posts in the forum before applying for your account. You do get what you pay for. It does go down from time to time, but what do you expect when the guy is hosting it off his PC. ;-)
Wow, far better & cheaper then the hosting I pay (www.aletia.com). Did you use their plans already? PD
I'm tempted by surpasshosting, but they seem a little too good to be true, 2GB space, 30GB/month bandwidth for only $48 a year? whats the catch? do you have to pay a $90 "admin fee" to transfer your domain to them or something?
I think I'll try that company- so far my site has been hosted for free on my friends server (which was very gracious of him) but Hawanja.com is begining to outgrow it. I've just gone over bandwidth for the umpteenth time in as many months.
*bump* So, have we got a definitive answer on this company yet? I notice they want you to transfer your domain/DNS to them, but any other "catches"?
Well, I got off my lazy ass and signed up with them today, and transferred the website over. Said it could take up to 24 hours for my domain name to resolve to the new address, so we'll see in a day or so.
Yes, and so far it's very nice, 3 GB of space, 50 GB of bandwith, $6 a month (my old site only had 100 Megs of space and 1 GB of bandwidth.) For about a week after the domain name resolved to the new IP address all I could see was a page saying "There is no website configured at this address." But one e-mail to Surpass fixed that. So yeah, they're pretty good so far.
