You get what you pay for (usually)
Wednesday, 23. April 2008, 13:31:10
Free Web Hosting!
What a promise.
I develop a lot of websites just as a hobby (translation: I don't get paid for those ones) and I try to use free web hosting for them because I am too cheap to pay for something that probably will not make a profit. There are a lot of ads for free hosting out there, some are good - most are not.
Until this week, I have been using www.aspspider.net for hosting. This was a great deal, in exchange for free ASP.NET web hosting, you have to post in the forums a certain number of times a month answering questions or writing tutorials. I not only got my hosting for free, but I learned a lot in those forums.
I just logged in and was told the site would disappear on May 1 2008.
Now for the mad scramble to try to find a new host. As usual, my first step in research is to google the subject, so I searched
Not gonna work, had to delete all of my files.
So another couple of hours of searching. Finally found a site, x10 Hosting that doesn't screw up my code. They have three levels of free hosting plus paid, and offer an amazing amount of tools for a free site.
You can visit my latest project at vantek.exofire.net.
Feel free to post if you know any other good free sites.
What a promise.
I develop a lot of websites just as a hobby (translation: I don't get paid for those ones) and I try to use free web hosting for them because I am too cheap to pay for something that probably will not make a profit. There are a lot of ads for free hosting out there, some are good - most are not.
Until this week, I have been using www.aspspider.net for hosting. This was a great deal, in exchange for free ASP.NET web hosting, you have to post in the forums a certain number of times a month answering questions or writing tutorials. I not only got my hosting for free, but I learned a lot in those forums.
I just logged in and was told the site would disappear on May 1 2008.
Now for the mad scramble to try to find a new host. As usual, my first step in research is to google the subject, so I searched
free web hosting. I got the usual mixture of bad links, toplists - a pet peeve of mine, and a couple of real hits. About 2 hours of frustration following links to all of the wrong sites, I thought I had found one - Bravenet, but then I uploaded all of my XHTML 1.0 Strict validated pages, went to visit the site, and found that the advertisement markup that they add to my pages contain on average 86 errors! 86! I took the time to make sure that my pages are perfect and now I can't even use the w3c icon because of the lamea## host and their lazy HTML practices.
Not gonna work, had to delete all of my files.
So another couple of hours of searching. Finally found a site, x10 Hosting that doesn't screw up my code. They have three levels of free hosting plus paid, and offer an amazing amount of tools for a free site.
You can visit my latest project at vantek.exofire.net.
Feel free to post if you know any other good free sites.
