Re: Re[2]: Bad Experiences

Some people just can't afford to pay for hosting. I design, among other
things, a site for a club made up of members from all over the world (US,
Canada, South Africa, Kenya, and a few others). I don't want to shell out
the money to pay for the hosting myself, and trying to get everyone else to
chip in would be rather difficult. Plus, I doubt seriously if we could get
people to join if we told them they had to chip in to help pay for a
website. So, I use Geocities, which is really the only free hosting service
I've had any experience with. Yes, there are things that are very annoying,
such as those little ad boxes, FTP restrictions, and lack of CGI and other
things. But, again, I'm kinda stuck. I honestly don't know a lot about any
of the other free hosting services, and thought it would be worth-while
asking.

Dusty
http://www.geocities.com/ussknight4141/index.html


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Bradshaw" <zibbler(at)web-design-cs.com>
To: <hwg-business(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Bad Experiences


> Well, just my 0.02 but for the most part I hate free hosting sites because
> of all the pop-ups and banner adds, not to mention the severe data
transfer
> restictions on them and no e-mail accounts. Of  all the free hosts, I have
> one that I like a lot and have several of my sites and my clients sites
on.
> It is Digital Rice. They have absolutely NO advertising at all on them
which
> is a big plus for me. The downside is, the server seems to be down off and
> on quite a bit, but is usually back up pretty quickly. Also, forget about
> any goodies like PHP, MySQL, cgi-bin, Perl etc.... but hey, it's free, and
> as far as free goes I think it's pretty damned good. Last I heard there
was
> a waiting list to get an account with them. This may not be the case
> anymore. You'll have to check it out yourself. If you want to check it out
> their addy is http://www.digitalrice.com
>
> HTH,
> Lisa
> ........................................................
> : Lisa Bradshaw                                        :
> : Web Designer/developer                               :
> :                                                      :
> : Crescendo Web Design - http://www.web-design-cs.com  :
> :......................................................:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dusty" <designsbydusty(at)tiadon.com>
> To: <hwg-business(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 4:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Bad Experiences
>
>
> > Hello.........
> >
> > I would like to see this information expanded to include the "free"
> hosting
> > services......Geocities, Angelfire, etc. What are the
good/bad/indifferent
> > qualities of each? I have some knowledge of Geocities, but not the
others.
> >
> > Dusty
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nathan Lyle" <nathan(at)upwebmaestro.com>
> > To: "Blue Tapp" <blue(at)bluesarthouse.com>
> > Cc: <hwg-business(at)hwg.org>
> > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:42 PM
> > Subject: Re[2]: Bad Experiences
> >
> >
> > > > Yes you are right but we can circulate the info offlist as I have
> done.
> > I
> > > > only publish the good lists to hwg.
> > >
> > > So maybe I should ask for a show of hands on who'd like to hear my
> > > crappy story and fingerpointing? Actually, I'd *really* like to know
> > > if others have heard of them and had similar experiences. That's
> > > almost a bigger reason for me to bring all this up I suppose.
> > >
> > > Could anyone interested drop me a note and indicate their interest?
> > > I'll send it offlist.
> > >
> > > ~ The U.P. Web Maestro (Nathan Lyle)
> > >
> > >   E-Mail: nathan(at)upwebmaestro.com
> > >   Online: www.upwebmaestro.com
> > >    Phone: (906)485-4806
> > >
> > > "The first 90of the code accounts for the first 90of the development
> > time...The remaining 10of the code accounts for the other 90of the
> > development time." - Tom Cargill.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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