Recent content by Cracker

Yeah, free hosts are for fly-by-night websites, since many free hosts are, in fact, fly-by-night hosts. LOL

I'm probably out of touch with the free hosting reality these days, but I don't know of any free host in the right mind that would have PHP with the safe mode off -- that's just asking for abuse.

Yeah, while paid hosting is affordable for most people that can afford a computer and internet connection, there are some sites that just don't make sense to be hosting with pay hosts -- for instance, someone may make a site that is only intended for a limited time event, like a school play or...

I'll bet all those limitations are there to compensate for overselling (as they supposedly offer 10 gb disk space and 300 gb monthly data transfer for only $4/month). Yet another downside of those overselling hosts.

Dang, how can a PAID host just go away without warning!!? You'd think a pay host would at least warn its members!!

Yeah, but T35 at least has a 500 kb file size limit and a limitation of 1 mb of traffic per 2 HTML page views (to prevent a user from using more bandwidth than their advertisement displays will pay for), so their unlimited is not really unlimited. CWahi has unlimited across the board (unlimited...

I think the ad-free plan will cost a small monthly fee, although I don't know why anyone would use THAT if they can just host with the regular crosswinds.net . As for the website design, I do think it resembles a pre-designed template. Ricardo, I guess the unlimited server sluggishness is...

By that I mean Crosswinds (but, Crosswinds free is now referred to as CWahi, probably a reference to Hawaii, and is located at http://www.cwahi.net/ ). Their new free service seems to be based on their original premise of unlimited webspace, unlimited file transfer, and unlimited file size/type...

Even if you pay for hosting, you should keep backups on your hard drive.

Yep, the dirty old trick to keep users active, as opposed to users who sign up for accounts and don't use them, or only use them to store files with only token HTML pages...

One thing I don't get is that if no user bases his or her real website in free web hosting forever, why free web hosts today offer "virtually unlimited" disk space and traffic? Or maybe that could be the reason why they do; they know nobody "smart" will try to use it.

Well, back when I used free hosting, I found http://www.t35.com/ to be the best one, despite their server speed bumps (but what do you expect for free?). They were also the last free host I used. That's just my opinion though (and take note that was over five years ago, so that's a terribly...

Yes, the really big hosts that are established can get away with overselling due to economies of scale, but you shouldn't trust any new paid host that offers 300 gb space / 3000 gb transfer because it's usually a scam!

Even if the host is generous it cannot last for long with no ads, because they'll get too many members.

Yep, free hosts are good for testing your first web site. In fact, many free hosts offer paid upgrades in the hopes that if/when one is ready to move to paid hosting, he or she will use their paid hosting.