Preserved Topic: f2s soon to end....

Or so it seems

In my mail today......


"Hello,

We're contacting you as a subscriber to the Freedom2Surf's
experimental free web hosting service.

At Freedom2Surf we're constantly updating our web hosting
service and one of our big concerns is to make sure we have
the highest standards of customer service. To be able to
provide this we have decided to discontinue the experimental
free hosting service that we have been running.

The service will continue until February 28th 2002 after
which time any websites which have not transferred to our
Global Hosting package will be closed.

But don't panic! To switch your website from the free
hosting service to our Global Hosting package, couldn't be
easier and it's excellent value, you get:

+ .com domain name registration
+ Telephone and email support
+ online web statistics
+ Frontpage extensions
+ PHP4 and Perl CGI
+ MySQL database
+ 20Mb webspace included

Only £36 + VAT per year!

(N.B. Non-UK users do not have to pay VAT, as a rough guide,
£36 is approx EUR 57.50 and $51.50)

Other options available include:"


Ah well.... slow sometimes... but good while it lasted... Yes Yes Yes... you get what you pay for!

anybody... http://www.one2host.com ???

Damn and double damn that we UK residents get stung for VAT too!! I suppose you get a .com thrown in for that too - it looks like its worth the upgrade - which I suppose was their plan all along.

OK anyone know of another free service? From what I've seen here, with people trying all sorts of places, it doesn't look likely. Is the free lunch over I wonder?

[edit: and eyezaer is too quick for an old emperor]

Emps


You're my wife now Dave

[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 12-05-2001).]

Sorry stupid american here - VAT ??

Value Added Tax - around 17.5%

Emps

from one american to another, I belive that's "Value Added Tax" I think it's only a UK thing..

yea, i also heard this. im very angry too, since my domain www.embege.com redirects to www.embege.f2s.com and i also have a couple of other sites running there.
what to do?

searching a host which is: free, SSS, no ads.

If anybody didn't understand the Beatles song titled "Tax Man" that should bring it home for you.

Ouch!!

-Butcher-

I think now might be the time for Pugzly to launch a competitively priced Running Wolf budget hosting service!!

Poeple might want to look at www.portland.co.uk - some issues but they seem OK.

butcher: That just about sums it up.

Anyone in the UK might want to look at www.freeola.com (no MySQL, .htaccess, etc. and not much help) you have to dailup to them to upload so I'm not sure it will suit broadband people but worth a look (I've not checked it out for external linking but I doubt it!!).

Emps


You're my wife now Dave

*whimper*

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"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself." --Henry Morgan
ICQ: 67751342

HyperMart offers free hosting, but it's ad-supported...

I had a feeling this would happen once they had sucked enough people onto their servers.
They just figure a percentage will transfer and, voila, instant business. It really pisses me off but whatever. They're out to make money. Can't fault 'em for that. But, I just moved my entire site there this week! I'm gonna check out onehost...

you guys should really check out http://www.hostonce.com Its the best ive seen so far.

Hey Pixo! I don't think that I have meet you before

That looks pretty good so far, I will have to read more. Thanks for the link.


C:\



[This message has been edited by CPrompt (edited 12-06-2001).]

Pixo: Welcome and good first posts!! That is an impressive offer they have their (with UK and Oz variants) and the Unix offer is impressive (pricing fixing is an interesting offer) although it seems a little too much for my current needs it might be worth getting in early - is anyone hosted by these people?It does beat f2s' upgrade offer!!

Anymore suggetions?

Emps


You're my wife now Dave

Crap! I didn't even gat around to using my space completly...

When in doubt, rely on the url box....

It may actualy work sometimes... See...
http://www.free-php-hosting.com/

Ahem!

.15 per MB per month. Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (aka "L.A.M.P.")
10 email accounts, 5 forwards, email groups, databases, myphpadmin, ftp, ssi, Plesk Control Panel to manage your own stuff, custom error docs, your own cgi-bin, etc.

Others in the Asylum who already host with us are free to comment on the service....

pspong.com and gurusnetwork.com are also hosted with us. One of these days, I might even get Doc to host with us

Email offline if you have questions.

horray! we get to fork out for the internet yet again. And look, double whammy! I get to pay VAT as well. I love this country - they have protected me from wealth and happiness all these years.

quote:

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I love this country - they have protected me from wealth and happiness all these years.

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For some odd reason I'm ROTFLMAO over this

Morph: I assume you are in the UK too then!! It might explain a few things. Get yourself on mr.maX's locator map and we'll see if there are enough of us to fill the thing!! It stinks - now if we sign up with Pugzly (I'm trying to do my sums on 0.15/Mb - looks good) will he make us pay VAT just so we don't feel left out!!

Emps

quote:

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.15 per MB per month.

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as in USD per MB per month?

Tyberius Prime

Yes - .15 USD per MB per month.

And no - we don't charge anyone VAT. Sorry! :P

And I should say that we also support payment via PayPal.



[This message has been edited by Pugzly (edited 12-06-2001).]

No, I think he means if you have a 3MB site it costs .45 per month?
Heh, Pugs beat me in but I'm still wondering, .15 per MB of what? Traffic, storage, tranfers? More details please as it sounds attractive to me.



[This message has been edited by Allewyn (edited 12-06-2001).]

Okay, my mistake. I hate being a "salesman".

<salesman>
.15 per MB per month of disk space. Minimum 25MB. No setup costs for name-based hosted sites. Limit is 10GB of traffic, unless we make other arraigments. Includes FTP for site maintenance. Anonymouse FTP is extra, since I'd have to tie an IP address to the domain. Web based statistics (Webalizer) also included, and looks like this.

Also includes web based email option, mod-perl, SSI, and all the stuff I mentioned earlier. Setup is usually completed before the domain name is finished propagating, so as soon as that's done, you're live. We can tie other domain names to the same site via straight forwarding or frame forwarding as well.

Hope that answers any questions.
</salesman>



edit: I should add that the Plesk Control Panel gives you an HTML based control panel to administer your site. It includes mail management, dns, myphpadmin, stats, reports, etc.

[This message has been edited by Pugzly (edited 12-06-2001).]

Thanks that's very clear.
Pugs, since there's no entry for non-members, how does one access your site to enroll?

[This message has been edited by Allewyn (edited 12-06-2001).]

Contact me offline, and we'll get it going (or answer more questions).

Ok, I sent a test email to verify the addy...

My mistake for not openly posting it. pat@runningwolf.com is the addy. ICQ is 23113317 and MSN Messenger at pat@runningwolf.com.

And everyone should remember that we are giving away 50MB of hosting for a YEAR as part of the GurusNetwork tutorial contest.

Pugzly: A good point that has been overlooked - if you want a years worth of free hosting then its got to be worth a little bit of work? I'm sure you've all got a couple of tutorials in you!!

Emps

And I should also add that the .15 price isn't permanent. It's a special we're running for the next month or so. So get it while it's hot!



edit: JUST KIDDING!

[This message has been edited by Pugzly (edited 12-08-2001).]

ok, Emperor but where is this locator map of Mr Max's?

MAX's OZONE Asylum Locator Millennium Edition :-) can be found here:

http://www.maxworld.co.yu/ozone/locator/

More Information how to get on the map can be found at the following location:

http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Archives/Archive-000002/HTML/20011119-1-002759.html
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Archives/Archive-000002/HTML/20011130-1-002791.html

Well I currently have all my stuff on angelfire, but I do have access is a UNIX Apache server from Godcore.com and I'm making a move over there. Angelfire has been a pretty damn good host, I had to write a script to break those banners from popping up and you can't direct link anything from them, but hey 50MB for free? The only reason I am switching over to the Godcore server is because I like using PHP and PERL, especially Weadah's PHP/Flash Dribble. I'm willing to bet that all these Free hosting sites will be down within a year, but angelfire is now pretty big. I'd stay away from Tripod though. The best thing in the world is to get your own domain if you got the money.

I agree. Having your own domain is very liberating.

alrigyt then.... my sig is not showin up fer me... so it is time to say good buy to f2$. I will move on. and I will be happy. see my smile? well.... it is there.

HAs anybody heard of www.t35.com I saw it posted on Ikonboards site not to long ago?

Looks like you get unlimited space, cgi, ssi, domain name transfers, bla,bla,bla...

they serve popups. personally I'm looking for no-ads and strongly considering the offer Pugzly is making. it's a pretty decent offer...

Yep - no popups here. No ads, no nothing. You pay for space, why would I want to add ads to that and mess up your designs?

Exactly. The rest of you guys ought to look seriously at this thing...it's pretty cheap compared to other offers out there.
I'm sure the service is better too. And you won't have to worry about some money-grubber @#$@%ing you either.

[This message has been edited by Allewyn (edited 12-08-2001).]

Well you can always break the ads like I did on angelfire

dark- that's very easy to do but, it's kinda against their TOS, if your caught they can remove your site... I hope you have a backup copy of all your stuff... "just a thought"

heh

ok mr.max lets have a go


'Morph', 52.967,-1.167, 'darren.travis@ntlworld.com'