Free Web Hosting Sites

jhenson · Post by **jhenson** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:27 pm

I need to suspend my account with Earthlink soon. This will end my current website:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jrhensonjr/

My new internet provider (Wildblue through a third party vender) has never been able to resolve a sign-in issue that will allow me to build a new site on the small web space they allow through my subscription.

I may just let my current site quietly fade away into the sunset without replacing it with another. I didn't commit much time to it last year because doing so on a dial-up connection was just insanely time consuming. Also, I new we would be changing over to satellite. Now that we are a somewhat high-speed connection, I should be able to easier edit a small site.

Does anyone have any experience and opinions about some of the "free" web hosting services like Tripod or GeoCities?

Joe

Mark.Wilme · Post by **Mark.Wilme** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:51 pm

Try awardspace.

Post by **Tim** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:06 am

I used Geocities for a brief time way back in 1999. Note that I said "brief".

You can do a lot better than Tripod or Geocities, in my opinion, though I don't have a specific place to point you, unfortunately. Awardspace.com looks as fair as any and I assume Mark had a good reason to recommend it.

If you're willing to pay a small amount you can expand your horizons significantely.

Personally, I'd hate to see you just let your site disappear. You have some interesting projects that deserve to remain available.

jhenson · Post by **jhenson** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:13 am

Tim,

If I indeed decided to pay a small monthly fee, would you point me in a different direction? I know that some of these "free" hosting places advertise that they will give you ad free and enhanced access for as little as $5/month.

Joe

Post by **Tim** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:08 am

Joe, I sent you a PM about this.

Ancient Race · Post by **Ancient Race** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:04 pm

Joe -

You can get quite a bit for less than $5 per month - I'm currently setting up my professional site with Go Daddy. I'd think their economy plan would give you more than enough space and bandwidth, and can be had for little more than 3 bucks a month if you pay for 2 years.

Greg

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:12 pm

I haven't actually used GoDaddy, but simply setting up a domain name there was a bit frustrating. Logging in would constantly fail and I'd have to call them (this happened to my brother often also). That being said, I don't know how the actual service is.

A friend on another board recommended "register.com." Apparently started by some well-intentioned computer geeks with soul. I've looked at their page but so far that's as far as it's gone. I might try to transfer before I do anything further with GoDaddy.

--- Rachel

Ancient Race · Post by **Ancient Race** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:44 pm

Rachel wrote: A friend on another board recommended "register.com." Apparently started by some well-intentioned computer geeks with soul. I've looked at their page but so far that's as far as it's gone. I might try to transfer before I do anything further with GoDaddy.

Interesting Rachel. GoDaddy was recommended to me by several people who make their livings through their websites. I haven't had any problem so far. Then again, I've been occupied with what for me is the steep part of CSS/XHTML/PHP learning curve, so I haven't actually uploaded much yet.

I checked out register.com, which seems fairly pricey to me; but OTOH, if their customer service is great, and GoDaddy's turns out not to be, the cost might be worth it.

Mark.Wilme · Post by **Mark.Wilme** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:23 pm

Let me clarify, I was being over brief

Awardspace offers no ad space, they were in the top 5 in early 2006 (I think), they do limit you a little in terms of features and (this is key) they ban some URL's as hyperlinks to prevent phishing. It caught me when I wanted to write an article about sources for some stuff and I couldn't cleanly link to Amazon.

They also support PHP which is good form me as my sites are all PHP SSI.

I have 2 unfinished sites on Awardspace (I know, I know), URLs' below

http://bene381.awardspace.com

http://elite32.awardspace.com

Very stable, nice web control manager, works very cleanly with Smartftp. (I had trouble with the add on for firefox though).

If nothing else try your site out here, if it doesn't work for youmove on and try somewhere else.

Note for photohosting (the pics I post here) I use photobucket - that works great, Googles picassa doesn't seem to work so good.

http://photobucket.com/