Forum: Community Center


Subject: Hiring web space

Anthony Appleyard opened this issue on Mar 02, 2016 ยท 13 posts


Anthony Appleyard posted Wed, 02 March 2016 at 4:06 PM

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_web_hosting_servicese

I am sorry to keep asking, but I again would welcome a consensus of opinions about where I can hire web space for a personal web site. I can afford any reasonable monthly or yearly hire charge. My experience with web site space is:-

I started on the internet with Demon Internet, and with my username they provided only 20 megabytes of website space.

I now have a home BTBroadband email address, and I found that no web space goes with it.

I tried Tripod twice, and they dropped me because my web site proved to be high-download-rate.

A member of Renderosity let me use some of his webspace, and that was very thankful and useful, but after some years he shut down and moved away.

After that, another member of Renderosity let me use some of his web space, and that was very thankful and useful, but he seems to have left Renderosity and abandoned his web site, and the files that I uploaded to that site, or some of them, are still there, but attempts to link to the site with FTP to upload or delete files now cause time-out failure. (I wonder if his site has vanished completely, and what of it that I can read now is "ghosts in the system" preserved in buffers of big internet relay nodes.)

I do not know if either of those two ran their own servers. Many thanks to them for letting me use their web space for so long.

I would prefer FTP for upload and site management, because that is what I am used to.

High upload and download allowed would be useful.

I would prefer my pages to be free from inserted advertisements.

Please, all that I want is unbiased information.