Soulgirl

Im with F5 Hosting. Affordable with a decent bandwidth allowance.

I have 4 sites with them and have been with them for over 3 years already.

I think on two of the sites we exceed 15gig of bandwidth on each of them monthly

Nothing is too much trouble for the owner and they are hardly ever down.

[Edited by Soulgirl - 10/5/2003 8:20:05 AM]

Boro

iTrader: (1)

Hey guys,

Im looking for a good quality free web hosting service, as much MB as possible and one that will allow a high number of direct linked pictures.

Any ideas?

Im considering lycos.tripod (any good?)

IanW

TBH If you are going to do it, dont bother looking at a free hosts. Pay out some money to a webhost and get some reliable hosting without banner adverts etc...

Boro

iTrader: (1)

Im seriously thinking of going down that route after my last "free" host decided to cancel my account cos i put a still of the "SOCCER AM" vid on there

Any recommendations Ian? Costs?

IanW

My personal website is hosted using Titan they are not the cheapest, but the level of service is great!

I have also used NetWeaver and PHPWebHosting

IanW

If it was in breach of their T&C's then they can/will do that, you agreed to the T&C's. A lot of hosts are the same with certain file types for obvious reasons.

Dave_A

I can thoroughly recommend Titanhosts as linked above. Been with them for nearly 12 months now, and the service is prompt and professional. Certainly worth thinking about spending the smallish amount of money it costs to go down this route. You can reg domain names at the same time and everything will be set up how you want.

For instance, I got www.scoobyphotos.com and www.scoobyphotos.co.uk registered at the same time, and got them to point the .co.uk address to the .com domain.

You also get the benefit of full webstats so you can see where you are getting your referrals from.

If you don't want to spend money, your own isp will possibly have provided you with some space, can you not use that? I'm spreading the load on scoobyphotos across both the purchased space and my free space, just to try and cut the bandwidth down a little. Thats the main problem with having photo heavy sites, they suck bandwidth all the time. I've already exceed 500mb of bandwidth this month, and we're only 4 days into it.

Dave
www.scoobyphotos.com

Rusty Festa

I use Titan for both the www.legacyregister.co.uk and www.cumbrianscoobs.co.uk websites.

£25/year buys you basic Unix or NT hosting but I went for the £50/year NT hosting with database support...something you may want to consider as the size of your site grows...put all the picture url's in a table and use .asp to call them. You could always do this using PHP and mySQL but I didn't know how to so I went with .asp

Boro

iTrader: (1)

I can get 100mb free with freeserve but im finding it difficult to get the site up on their server (see Freeserve thread). Basically ive constructed the site but cant get their server to recognise it

zhastaph

I agree with many of the others here, we used to use a free ISP for our web hosting, but your limited with what you can do, and there's always the threat of being dropped

We've since changed to http://www.virtualnames.co.uk, they have lots of packages starting really cheap. Provide full email services, and email fowarding, you can have multiple domain names pointing at the same site, in fact we have to completely separate site and we have them on the same account and so the web space is shared. mySQL, PHP, front page extensions, activity logs etc

I wouldn't go back to a 'free' provider now