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I read these forums over time and am baffled by the amount of people in here that demand great space..big bandwidth...all the fancy stuff...cgi,perl,php,asp,etc.etc. Sure...I love the perl ability but maybe I have to pay for it? I see people that demand that their 30 year collection of mp3's be hosted free.
Complain about FREE ? Some of it comes natural. If a free host is nothing but one big problem I kind of look at it like...it took me some time and effort to even sign up but the stupid place does not work most the time or is a big broken machine.Anybody know of these places?
Then theres the FREE that equals pay either in 48 hours or after they get out of their beta testing.
Then theres the 24/7 keeping up to your free hosting.Gotta keep tuned daily for the constant changes.Take a week vacation and your site is gone because you did not edit it every 72 hours.
oooo---the pop-ups !!!! everybody loves them !!!!! I guess they pay the host but pop-ups sell anything? -- or chase people away? I think most see pop-ups and EXIT FAST.
OK-- In the age of 'free is dead' I've paid for website hosting...now at 5 different places.... I'm non-commercial non-profit and just enjoy putting up websites. Sort of like the old educational internet.
NOW...what strikes me? Why o Why am I paying to put educational information on the web? I'm stupid. Next year..forget it....
The internet is close to being nothing but dialing up to 'the yellow pages'.(here in usa the phone books have a section 'yellow pages'...nothing but business)
No longer the free playground of the multi-millions.Its only usefulness is to try to sell something..or look to buy something.===kinda makes boring web-surfing....
In 2002 I see abandoned personal websites eveywhere.Anybody getting turned off by the 'yellow pages' internet?
So I look at it like if ANYBODY is nice enough to offer free hosting WONDERFUL !!!!! (minus a few of things mentioned earlier)
If its 5mb or 15mb minus all the fancy stuff its at least free space. Remember if you read a newspaper or magazine what you read is surrounded by ads.(but they don't pop out and ruin your nerves)
As to host who started this thread...thanks for anything FREE...--- but a 15k image limit? My grandmothers picture jpg might hit 150k. At least 150k covers most any normal photo image. Ever see a 15k photo jpg?