Date : Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:25:42 +0000
From : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Looking for web space
"Mark de Weger" <mark@...> wrote:
> I intend to expand my BBC WWW site. However, my Internet provider allows
> for only 15 Mb, whereas I guess I'll need about 100 Mb. Does anyone know
> of free Web hosts that provide this amount of space? Or, alternatively,
> what are good Web hosts that provide a little less.
> No advertisements would be a big plus. So would php-support and XML/XSL
> (or XML/CSS) support.
Force 9 provide "unlimited" webspace. I don't know exactly what they mean
by that, I'm currently at almost 18Mb. They say they request "prior
warning" if you're going to use a lot of space so they can configure
their servers better.
Another advantage is their domain suffix is short - 'f9.co.uk'.
Presumably, you'll want to redirect 'deweger.net' to the server space, as
I do with mdfs.net pointing to mdfsnet.f9.co.uk. (When I can get them to
understand that I want 'www.mdfs.net/filename' to return the contents of
'filename' and not '<html><frameset><frame src="site/filename"></html>',
then I'll be happy.)
Unless Force9's customer support has got better, prepare to do many things
by yourself. However, if you've already been administering a website (as
I had when I moved to my own site), things should be quite easy.
They're at http://www.force9.co.uk/
If/When I next look for space serving, I need anonymous ftp access, so
that I can pass URIs such as ftp://site/filename and have them access the
exact same item as http://site/filename.
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