Author Topic: Anyone know where I can hold a free website? (Read 11507 times)

Nguyen · « **on:** December 26, 2006, 10:50:05 AM »

I want a business website for a product I'm selling

But I'm a little broke and my parents dont give me an allowance

Does anyone know any services that let oyu have a website for free, while giving you full control of like, everything from he gfx to the pretty much everything?

I've heard of google pages, but you need a cell phone to set up your account, which I do not have. If you have a google pages site tell me how it is as well.

STS91 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 26, 2006, 01:12:13 PM »

Yep same place i have hosting from, the guy who host thes site is a really great guy. Heres the link http://www.hkhp.us/index.php , the only thing is u have to be alittle active on his site forums. Make about 15-20 befor putting in your request, and then just make 1-2 post a week or so. You have full control over the site, and cpanel. U can pick raven nuke or another php nuke if u wont.

Thats the best free host i know of, and i had a few lol.

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I want a business website for a product I'm selling

But I'm a little broke and my parents dont give me an allowance

Does anyone know any services that let oyu have a website for free, while giving you full control of like, everything from he gfx to the pretty much everything?

I've heard of google pages, but you need a cell phone to set up your account, which I do not have. If you have a google pages site tell me how it is as well.

Zylstra · « **Reply #2 on:** December 27, 2006, 12:19:38 AM »

My favorite website hoster is:
www.mbhosting.com

You cant have any SPAM or illegal stuff on your site, and no pornography. You must also have Google ads on every page, which isnt too hard. It does have cPanel, and full control. After that, I would reccomend going to www.co.nr and getting a redirect, but dont mask the address, just have it redirect you to the .mbhosting.com site

Rob Pomeroy · « **Reply #3 on:** December 27, 2006, 07:14:57 AM »

Free web hosts are not suitable for commercial websites. Period.

Zylstra · « **Reply #4 on:** December 28, 2006, 06:35:27 PM »

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Free web hosts are not suitable for commercial websites. Period.

Aw Rob, why did you have to do that?
JK,

He is very right.
People wont take it...
but Rob, I seem to remember you having a DYNS.Biz domain...

fffreak · « **Reply #5 on:** December 29, 2006, 10:15:02 AM »

Here is a good one

Rob Pomeroy · « **Reply #6 on:** December 30, 2006, 02:12:11 PM »

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I seem to remember you having a DYNS.Biz domain...

Correct. Dynamic IP service, not free web host.

Kate1018 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 02, 2007, 03:46:19 AM »

Try http://www.deluxnetwork.com

There are no ads, and it has a short subdomain.

tuker · « **Reply #8 on:** January 06, 2007, 05:16:52 PM »

i have my free site setup on awardspace.com whitch has no adds and supports mysql and php, if your planning on uploading big files like downloads try putting them on 9999mb.com they offer 10gb storage but i would only put downloads on as they put adds onb html,php pages etc.

patio · « **Reply #9 on:** January 07, 2007, 01:41:06 PM »

Free hosting is exactly what it's called...you get what you pay for.

fffreak · « **Reply #10 on:** January 09, 2007, 06:15:13 PM »

You can also host your own website from your computer by using Apache, Xerver, or some other server software. Then you could go to http://www.dyndns.com/ to obtain a dynamic or static IP so you don't have to type in the IP address every time.

Rob Pomeroy · « **Reply #11 on:** January 10, 2007, 01:20:08 AM »

True, but again, unlikely to be suitable for a commercial website, unless you know for a fact it won't have much traffic, or you're on SDSL (or something like that) rather than ADSL.

fffreak · « **Reply #12 on:** January 10, 2007, 11:44:22 AM »

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True, but again, unlikely to be suitable for a commercial website, unless you know for a fact it won't have much traffic, or you're on SDSL (or something like that) rather than ADSL.

Good point, but I wasn't relating to a commercial website at all as he was asking, "Anyone know where I can hold a free website?". Just showing Nguyen another way to host a free website. You are right though you will not have very much traffic, as I don't.

Rob Pomeroy · « **Reply #13 on:** January 12, 2007, 04:06:55 AM »

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I want a business website for a product I'm selling

?

fffreak · « **Reply #14 on:** January 12, 2007, 03:26:55 PM »

And I seem to get ahead of myself, so he does want a commercial website.

PL2007 · « **Reply #15 on:** January 13, 2007, 03:28:11 AM »

Nguyen, I've been there and my site isn't even commercial as such. It's just a free games lounge. Period.

I tried free webspace and keywords got completely dismissed, PHP scripts were not enabled and what's worse is that from what I can understand (I am totally self-taught which can be a nightmare) the more content you have up there, the more pages that will simply not display for the user. If you cram the freespace up to the hilt, even one user would have a problem seeing the pages. At least, I think that's right.

I moved over to paid hosting. £50 a year and now I can add as many games as I want and they will display for every user. Keywords galore and more.

As they are saying you get what you pay for.

Free space can work if the site doesn't have too many requests or too much content.

myownworldoffuture · « **Reply #16 on:** January 27, 2007, 08:53:55 AM »

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I want a business website for a product I'm selling

But I'm a little broke and my parents dont give me an allowance

Does anyone know any services that let oyu have a website for free, while giving you full control of like, everything from he gfx to the pretty much everything?

I've heard of google pages, but you need a cell phone to set up your account, which I do not have. If you have a google pages site tell me how it is as well.

I personally like freewebs
http://www.freewebs.com

It's a really good one

almn · « **Reply #17 on:** January 27, 2007, 12:06:38 PM »

Hello,

Do any of those free hosters allow the website owner to upload exe files ??

Thanks

Al968

fffreak · « **Reply #18 on:** January 27, 2007, 12:39:51 PM »

www.110mb.com does. 8-)

Useless · « **Reply #19 on:** February 14, 2007, 06:06:39 PM »

www.awardspace.com

you get 5 sub-domains, an FTP server with PHP, PERL etc. installed and its free
i think its pretty good, also, it is Ad-Free

rockerest · « **Reply #20 on:** February 19, 2007, 07:24:25 PM »

Honestly, running apache on your own computer is the best way to go. Hundreds of gigs of storage space, unlimited bandwidth (of course you're limited by your own connection's upload speed), and you can put whatever you want on the site.

I hadn't even touched Apache before I set my site up, and I think(?) I'm running a pretty secure server right now. Using a dynamic DNS service can net you a decently professional looking address (unlike mine, which I chose for memorability, which turns out to be not so good anyway).

Of course, if you have a "business" that's not even making you the $10 per year it costs to buy a domain name, I don't think you need to worry a ton about how professional your address sounds.

That's my take.

-rock

p.s. Sorry about the 5-day bump.

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Author Topic: Anyone know where I can hold a free website? (Read 11507 times)

Nguyen

STS91

Zylstra

Rob Pomeroy

Zylstra

fffreak

Rob Pomeroy

Kate1018

tuker

patio

fffreak

Rob Pomeroy

fffreak

Rob Pomeroy

fffreak

PL2007

myownworldoffuture

almn

fffreak

Useless

rockerest