deeplist said:
Actually, I think that "post to host" is more than fair to those who want free hosting. I mean, you don't have to actually pay anything, and all you are doing is dedicating some of your time. It really is a good way to weed out those who arent really worth the time and effort of creating an account. I see so many requests anymore that say "I will NOT post to get an account." If I was the host offering the free space and I saw that, I would say to myself "Then go to hell. If you can't dedicate some of your time, then you are not worth mine."
I see these post2host crap just a way to populate a host's forum with members giving them an appearance of having contributing members. If i was running a hosting company with a forum i would want my members to actually want to be their contributing to discussions rather than posting mindless crap just to meet their monthly posting quota to keep their free hosting accounts. I've joined forums in the past in return for free hosting, and in one case (helphousehosting) it was actualy worthwhile contributing on their forum as a member. Hosts need to understand that not everyone is superhuman and can juggle a job, education and a website and then go on to post in a number of forums. when i first joined THIS forum i was an active member.. that was when i had time to join in on the discussion, nowadays im barely here.
O and in regards to the asian labelling on your site, i get where your coming from. may i suggest you change it to something like "bogus requests from asian contenants" or "only english dominant countries".. just sounds more polite for those idiots who complain. With my website i was stuck in a debate with visitors with finding jokes on it 'racist', in tern to keep people happy i beeped out the 'N' word with asterisks. Have you considered blocking their IP ranges and IPs of common open proxies in your signup form?
HEYMRDJ said:
Oh and in response to the 5MB size, you don't know how to make a media site do you? My web hosting site is 28MB and still growing. My old gaming clan forums sat at 230MB and could consume 2GB of BW a day. And of course my anime site came to 4GB and could consume about 8GB of BW a day.
Yeh, of course i do. But i just don't see the point of populating the internet with over 4gig in trash... When building a site for others i prefer to utilise actual content which is organised data. We call this creation "INFORMATION". I'm not targetting any of your websites directly, im just voicing my opinion in general. Believe it or not there are people still using dialup! Not everyone in the world has access to 1.5mb cable connections. I opt out and steer clear of designing media rich websites just due to load times.
Try-hard web designers simply design some crap in fireworks or photoshop, cut it up and put it into dreamweaver not giving any consideration to how it may display on older browsers, resolutions, platform, hardware specs of client machine, and the client internet connection, etc. i wont even get into w3c validation... if you have people waiting at splash screens loading your site or just even 30secs per image your gonna lose traffic. and in the end wat is the general user going to say? "this site is slow!".
Yeh and your customers come bak to you saying that they cant navigate back to their website from the script fantastico installed and have no idea how to create a template... obviously your customers arent going to be very happy... It would be ludicrous to pay $10-20 to utilise something as basic as a feedback form. Hey, ill script a feedback form and even customise it into your site for any1 willing to pay me that much per month!
If a client wants their business to have a professional presence on the internet, then they should be willing to go the xtra mile and not rely on pre-installed scripts. If need be hire some1 to do the coding for u!
This thread is just crazy tlk..