Free hosting - best to use?

Miguel_Sanchez

Ok since the web hosting forum is closed I'm posting this here. I'm currently doing up a site for a small convention being held by friends of mine and since they don't have any real money behind it they're looking to host it for free.

I've never dealt with free hosting before and just wondering if anyone can recommend any particular site to go to - the less pop-up ads and annoying **** the better.

The site is going to be pretty basic - just text and graphics really, no interactivity to speak of.

dahamsta

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=141982

tuxy

well boards gives users a small amount of web space would that be enough?

byte

I used to use Portland for free hosting, as it had PHP, cgi-bin etc which I needed at the time. The server is very slow though.

What about the space that comes free with an ISP account like Eircomnet or IOL? They don't have popups (though don't have PHP, etc either)

the Guru

www.netfirms.com

that will sort you out

buddy

Originally posted by the Guru
www.netfirms.com

that will sort you out

Free?

www.freehost.ie offer a years hosting with domain for 35e + VAT which ain't bad.

Otheriwse I use eircom.net webspace and if ya want you could buy a domain for about $10/year which resolve to your webspace.

neptune

Otheriwse I use eircom.net webspace and if ya want you could buy a domain for about $10/year which resolve to your webspace.

can you tell me how to do that, eircom free users can get a webpage at
homepage.eircom.net/~yourusername if i registerd a domain www.whatever.com
would my website then be www.whatever.com/~username or can you get it to
be the root. Also what would happen if the user clicked a link would the real
address or the domain name show up in the address bar of the browser?

can you also setup email addresses @whatever.com to point to an existing email
acount at eircom or oceanfree or somewhere how does it know which computer
the mail server is on.

im clueless about theese kind of things thanks for the info

mneylon

A number of companies offer domain registration with URL and email redirects. Basically you can setup the domain to point to your free webspace on Eircom or similar and have your mail forwarded elsewhere.

Seth Brundle

if you register a domain name then it is yours (renewable annually).
This domain will point towards space on a particular computer. When someone types www.whatever.com they are brought to this space.
If you pay for webspace then you get various things including email support (you@whatever.com), and possibly database support, etc.. Any requests for www.whatever.com are like most other sites - it appears as normal.
If you go for one of the free hosts then you will just be re-directing users who type www.whatever.com to www.eircon.net/~whatever. Many of the free hosts also have a from of advert associated with your site (banner, pop-up, etc.).
It is also possible to have you@whatever.com diverted to another address.
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/faq/howto_guide.asp?isc=&se=%2B&from%5Fapp=&prog%5Fid=GoDaddy
HTH
Killian

neptune

another question
do domain registration companies allow you to
change your mx records to point to any mail server on the internet?

does anyone know somewhere that does

mneylon

It can be done via a lot of the registrars control panels.