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Swiftspear
Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">what works best?</div> I'm looking for a bare minimum free webhost, just something I can post pictures and do basic file transfers with. Conditions:
1) Fairly reliable, won't delete my stuff without warning when my limit is no where near full, will be accessable all the time.
2) Free, I have no income and a monthly cost will add up really quick.
3) Adds don't matter, as long as there is no pr0n, it's not like I intend to draw lots of traffic anyways.
4) A decent ammount of storage space, hopefully nothing lower than 20mb
5) Domain doesn't matter, I won't lose it, and I don't care what people who might happen to be browsing think about it.
There are hundreds of offers availible via google, but I'm a little wary of just grabbing something, if you have hosting, what works for you?
1) Fairly reliable, won't delete my stuff without warning when my limit is no where near full, will be accessable all the time.
2) Free, I have no income and a monthly cost will add up really quick.
3) Adds don't matter, as long as there is no pr0n, it's not like I intend to draw lots of traffic anyways.
4) A decent ammount of storage space, hopefully nothing lower than 20mb
5) Domain doesn't matter, I won't lose it, and I don't care what people who might happen to be browsing think about it.
There are hundreds of offers availible via google, but I'm a little wary of just grabbing something, if you have hosting, what works for you?
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Here's the cheapest package:
Copper plan - $3.33 a month
Starter web site - NO SETUP FEES!
No Ads
500 MB of web space
250 MB of file transfer
10 email addresses
Web Mail
Account Control Panel
ASP, ASP.net PHP, Perl 5
Frontpage, MySQL, PostSQL
Plus you have access to a powertool manager where you can install stuff easily, like Gallery (a gallery tool)
Here's the cheapest package:
Copper plan - $3.33 a month
Starter web site - NO SETUP FEES!
No Ads
500 MB of web space
250 MB of file transfer
10 email addresses
Web Mail
Account Control Panel
ASP, ASP.net PHP, Perl 5
Frontpage, MySQL, PostSQL
Plus you have access to a powertool manager where you can install stuff easily, like Gallery (a gallery tool) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You didn't read my initial post, did you... That service sounds nice, but it doesn't touch nearly any of my conditions.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Every ISP (including AOL) has given their users webspace for years, yet for some reason people don't remember. So unless your on a college LAN or interweb cafe, use your ISP. If your ISP doesn't offer any webspace, tell them to get out of the stone age and switch to a different one.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->Technically that would make it my parent's webspace then, although they don't use it at all, so if I got access to it I could probably use it as my own. How would I go about checking for ISP webhosting?
If it matter's im on <a href='http://www.telus.com/cgi-ebs/jsp/homepage.jsp' target='_blank'>Telus</a>, and from thier hompage I do get the impression that they offer webhosting. How reliable is ISP webhosting likely to be?
As for getting access, you could call them and ask how to get access. I know Midco (cable company here) just requires you use an FTP program, aka cuteFTP/IE/Etc to upload your images. Usually your username to log onto the ISP is the domain name, for example when I had Mico mine was windsiren.sio.mido.net. Then whatever your email password is for the ISP, assuming you have email with the ISP. :-)
*holy typos batman)* <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<a href='http://help.telus.net/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=56,E=0000000000003013275,K=9221,Sxi=2,Case=obj(11706)' target='_blank'>http://help.telus.net/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI....Case=obj(11706)</a>
Here's the cheapest package:
Copper plan - $3.33 a month
Starter web site - NO SETUP FEES!
No Ads
500 MB of web space
250 MB of file transfer
10 email addresses
Web Mail
Account Control Panel
ASP, ASP.net PHP, Perl 5
Frontpage, MySQL, PostSQL
Plus you have access to a powertool manager where you can install stuff easily, like Gallery (a gallery tool) <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You didn't read my initial post, did you... That service sounds nice, but it doesn't touch nearly any of my conditions.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Every ISP (including AOL) has given their users webspace for years, yet for some reason people don't remember. So unless your on a college LAN or interweb cafe, use your ISP. If your ISP doesn't offer any webspace, tell them to get out of the stone age and switch to a different one.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->Technically that would make it my parent's webspace then, although they don't use it at all, so if I got access to it I could probably use it as my own. How would I go about checking for ISP webhosting?
If it matter's im on <a href='http://www.telus.com/cgi-ebs/jsp/homepage.jsp' target='_blank'>Telus</a>, and from thier hompage I do get the impression that they offer webhosting. How reliable is ISP webhosting likely to be? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm on Telus. Their webhosting is reliable, but you get 10MB only, and about 50-100MB transfer. In other words, its pretty much crap. I used to use it but kept getting cut off for using too much bandwidth (they don't say there's a limit but there is). However, I didn't expect much from them since it took them 9 months and 14 tries to update our ADSL plan (they kept adding more of the wrong package, and not removing the old ones).
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I would say it would be just as safe as your internet connection is of staying stable. Usually that is the only issue ISP's have. If you have ISP issues. they probably aren't the best ISP to begin with. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
They're horribly unreliable (its amazing to go three weeks without having at least 24 hours of outages). They're the worst ISP I've ever been with, but unfortunately I have no choice. Its either Telus or Shaw Cable, and seeing as how Shaw is hideously expensive unless you subscribe to their regular cable too (which I don't)... no choice really.
Can't say I'm entirely suprized... They have a reputation for crappy service, although I MYSELF haven't had too much problems with them.
I'm thinking 50megfree would be a good option, can anyone give me a quick review how good they acctually are?
they were giveing out freee webspace
they <b><span style='color:red'>were</span></b> giveing out freee webspace<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Like... what 6 months ago?
Hope this helps. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
There's about 5 bagillion ways to contact me on my profile.
Around $30 a month for a 4mbit connection.
I pay $60 a month for a 5mbit, but it has "unlimited" transfer.
Actually, now that I think about it, I'd go with the swift kick...
Actually, now that I think about it, I'd go with the swift kick... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Geocities doesn't have free hosting do they? I couldn't find a package asside from thier pro and plus packages, which both cost money (and kindof suck anyways). Is anyone here on 50megfree? how good is it?
Still not a problem over here.
Still not a problem over here. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ok, thanks then, I'm emailing within the next few minutes.
You are awesome Them!