Question for Retrofly!!!

[Guest]

er......just wondering, is your site one of the free geocities ones, or have u paid for it??? I would like to set up a site and, being cheap (I want to spend my £££ on the new bike!! ) would like a free site! what free ones are around and which are best for space and lack of pissin annoyin adds!

[Ste]

Theres no such thing as a free lunch mate. You get hosted for free by a company and they will be putting adverts on it. Otherwise whats in it for them in hosting thousands of sites with no charge to the owners?

You are better off really getting some less expensive hosting, which can just be like £5-10 a month will be fine for most sites. You get alot more for your money as well

[irdawood]

i'll host u and it will be free

hmm as for what in return.....umm well i dunno im sure i will think of somming

just pm me if u want an account setting up
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[Dr Nick]

I would reccomend Orion Hosting .
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[Jon]

On the subject of hosts, does anyone know of a specific host that allows you to run multiple websites from i.e. www.motogp.com and www.wsbk.com etc. The reason I ask is cause I've got a few small sites that need to go 'up' and don't want to pay for a server three times over, instead pay the £100 a year and run all three on the same server? Something tells me you cannot do this but ...

Ste, Bendy

[andrew]

www.bluegravity.com

brilliant IMO!

[Kickstart]

Hi

We use https://www.cheapnet.co.uk

Costs us a fair bit, but that is with 40gb bandwidth a month and virtually unlimited web space.

All the best

Keith
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[Susi]

I use www.phenominet.com. They're quite cheap and I know for a fact that they don't really care if you do end up going over your bandwidth. They're policy says that they'll let you off the first few times, but then after that they'll warn you telling you to delete some of your files or to upgrade your package.

Now here's the good bit, they say what I stated above, but they really couldn't give a crap about it. I've been going over my bandwidth by 30/40Gb a month for almost a year now and they haven't said anything. On top of things they've got the best support I have ever seen. It doesn't matter what time of the day it is, you will have a reply within 1-2 hours tops.

Their server can be slow at times, but overall it's good.

Another good hosting company is https://www.syntax-fx.com. They're cheap and they do their job well. A friend of mine hosts his MP3 collection with them and to date he has had no problems.
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[Zero-G]

www.freewebs.net

uses web based uploading but u can buy ftp access for like £10 a year if u want.

works fine if u just want a few html pages or somewhere to upload pics to etc.

[mike_neon]

why not use your ISP hosting facility

i use Pipex ADSL

and get 50MB web space
No Adverts what so ever
dont know maxiumum bandwidth allowed (isnt mentioed)
excellent downloads and ping times from it too on other internet connections

[Ste]

I have used www.alivewww.com and they were good. I am currently with www.plantetshosting.com and they are alrigtht, just the server can be a bit unreliable occasionally However I pay $9.99 for 45gigs of bandwidth and 10 gigs of space

And Jon, you are looking for hosting which allows multiple domains which nearly all good one do

[Jon]

Multiple domains as in all pointing to the same index page?

Cause what I'm after is running three different websites, obviously three totally seperate domains, on the same server. So if I pay a monthly charge of £10, I can run all these sites, instead of running three sperate hosts which would cost around £30 a month?

I want to stick a load of my sites onto the pb server, I'd obviously save a lot of cash doing it this way.

[Ste]

It is called muliple domains. You can choose if a domain redirects to another domain, or if it is its own site.

Yes you can do as you suggest, however you need to check with the hosting company if you can do this. Some charge a small fee per extra domain though. You will also have to share the bandwidth and disk space of your hosting package between the multiple domains.

[Jon]

As long as it's possible anyway, cause one of my lecturers used to go on about it not being possible which is obviously bollocks. Then again, finding a teacher who actually knows a subject nowadays is pretty damn rare lol.

[Ste]

Education huh

[Keith @ Work]

[TiN]

[Ste]

Thats domain redirection Tin

With my Plesk based hosting account, I had upto 10 domains, and I could allocate my space, bandwidth and other stuff as I choose between them. I paid one bill, and could host upto I think it was 10 sites

They all ran from thier own domains just like this site and all of Korns porn sites well, unless its just hidden in www.bikechatforums.com/porn/

[Bendy]

If you're hosting your own domains you can do what the hell you like.

If you can only point them at your space, that's where the problems come in. If you only have one IP address, you'll either want forwarding with masking (bit messy) or ideally you want to use host headers. But not all hosting companies will support this.

[Jon]

Cheers all

I think the best thing to do is contact a few host companies and see what they say / if they allow it.

[Ste]

https://www.webhostingtalk.com/

Your best bet