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Your One-Stop Guide to "Free" Web Space
No such thing as a "free" lunch or
Web Page?
When you see the table below, you'll know!
AAA's Stats:
*****=5 ass´terix = the suckiest
Server Sample Page
Sucky?
America Online the world's largest server & only ISP to provide free space (2 MB per Screen Name & allowing up to five SNs) with no banners, pop-ups or watermarks but THE big plus: short & uncomplicated URLs! DISS: you gotta subscribe for about 20 clams a month but then Steve Case wasn't stupid. Newer AOL versions now make it harder to stay out of hometown, though.
Best bet if you're
not ready for a
paid domain!
BooksNikon*
Angelfire has 1.5 million members and allows for 2 MB of space. These two are oldtimers.
Tripod has 2 million, providing 200 KB?!? (These Lycos network communities both have pop-ups, infuriating java imposed on each page to change the URL as it connects; arggghhhh!)***½
Crosswinds seems a crisp deal-- unlimited space; browser uploads or FTP (w/buggy updates some say) and natch you get a banner ad, but thoughtfully, at the bottom of each page (the way geocities was before their nasty pop-ups). Unlimited web-based e-mail, URLs are www.crosswinds.net/yoursite. Their "About Us" page yielded an"Oops" pop-up if that tells you anything, and there are also nasty reviews out there about 'em.
***½
Dreamwater 50MB space, guestbook, chat, Email, no FTP or image hotlinking; URLs named (http://dreamwater.com/yourname or subdomain http://yourname.dreamwater.com) unlimited bandwidth, hits; banner but no pop-ups!
***
FortuneCity 25 MBs and no E-mail accounts. Your address-- members.fortunecity.com/username --Members are also required to display banner.
****
Freeservers Ad-supported service 20 MBs and "unlimited" E-mail accounts. Your address-- http://(YourSiteName).freeservers.com. Banners & Pop-Ups (shudder).
***½
Geocities (now with Yahoo) This grandaddy boasts most member pages & gives tons of space; Yahoo took over & installed the Ad Square pop-up, but it was avoidable by adding a Geobanner. NOTE: June, 2001 They reneged on the Geobanner, not allowing homesteaders to activate them and forcing the pop-up.
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TopTown HA HA HA HA HA HA
HA HA HA HA
*****
WebSpawner I guess, would be a good place for beginners to start. (Chuckle)
****
ZeroCatch or 0catch allows 100 Megs of storage, FTP but with file limitations; no mail, plus banner ad & pops. No hotlinking and refuses to host sites used for storing only pictures. Very similar to the now defunct tonofspace.
***
XOOM/NBCi taught a real lesson by
unceremoniously discontinuing pages with little or no warning--
be wise & back-up your files, should this happen. We only hope Homestead
& Talk City were nicer.
Older hosts like Geocities & AOL reduce that risk but nothing is in stone on
the net.
One big advantage of going with a member
community (besides price)
rather than investing in your own domain,
your page can be found in "neighborhood" listings.
For more info on free space visit this guide full of reviews.
Free? Chuh, right!
You provide creative content (hard work, in exchange)
to the community so that the server can get their promotions & advertising
in YOUR FACE & Your Loyal Guests' Faces!
Some communities/memberships are more generous than others.
The most common drawbacks are pesky pop-ups and banners, plastered on your creation
and
java scripting the "benevolent" host injects into the browser address,
rendering the URL imperceptible.
Note: whatever community you decide on,
follow-through after providing your email address--
they'll confirm your necessary password.
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