Cheap/free web space recommendations

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After spending like a 1000 quid on demon over the last 8 years, I'm considering upping sticks. I don't want no steenking ISP at home. But I'd still like some web space to put up my oh so invaluable :-) bits and pieces of files and software.

There are some sites I'm looking at that list free/cheap webspace, but none of them give guidance on reliability. Any personal recs? I'm happy with banners, but NOT pop ups (which cook socks in hell). I have at least 20MB to store

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

FTP uploads. Pref more than just canned CGI scripts. PHP and full PERL would be dandy.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pair.com, pair.com, for them I sing, this wuvvly song! They aint an ISP but very reliable for webspace and hosting and stuff, innit?

― Sarah, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but that's still a fiver a month. or have i missed their free service? Anyone rec free, banner-driven space?

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Angelfire gives you a choice between banners and pop-up ads,and I think you can get up to 50MB,with nice and easy uploads.Pop-up ads are one thing,but it's another to appear to endorse the content of the banner ads.I was with them for a few years before deciding GREAT BOLSHY YARBLOCKOS to all the ads,so I up and offed to a Pitas blog.

― Damian, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm, i'm looking at pro-hosting and it looks good, but i've had a couple of "couldn't connect" things already this morning.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

still trying to work out brinkster

― a-33, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You're looking for the holy grail!

Crosswinds (www.crosswinds.net) used to be it (sans cgi-bin), but they're crap now (don't even bother). You're going to have to compromise on something or other, banners or cgi..something has to give.

Start looking here: www.thefreesite.com

If you find it, let me know, please. I've spent probably over 25-30 hours looking for this over the past year or so.

Good luck!

― Brian Gallagher, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you're Macintosh-based, Apple's iTools is pretty nice.

― Chris Barrus, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I use brinkster. The page itself seems pretty reliable, but the file manager does seem a bit fussy. The free service doesn't include a lot of things like FTP and restricts file types (no mp3s etc) but does support active server pages (which I haven't managed to learn yet) and I like it enough that I may even upgrade to a proper pay account one of these days. But as for the free service, the selling point for me was that they put no advertising at all on your site. It's 30 MB of space I think.

― Kim, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

www.spacetowns.com

― Melissa W, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

bump

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 January 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I looked into pair.com after I read this thread, and ended up getting the shared FTP account. It's been great so far - thanks Sarah!

― Poppy (poppy), Sunday, 25 January 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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