Simviation Forum - Looking for a decent webhost

Jun 11^th, 2006 at 12:08pm

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I need a reliable webhost with the following:

*FTP access
*at least 50mb space
*mySQL database
*no ads

and preferably free!

any suggestions? I've already used DaJoob.com but i need more than one account

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Reply #1 - Jun 13^th, 2006 at 7:44am

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look at http://www.freewebspace.net to search for some

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Reply #2 - Jun 15^th, 2006 at 2:52am

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cool, i will have a look. Dajoob just seems to be down a hell of a lot

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Reply #3 - Jun 15^th, 2006 at 7:18am

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cool, i will have a look. Dajoob just seems to be down a hell of a lot

i've figured that out Roll Eyes

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Reply #4 - Jun 15^th, 2006 at 2:17pm

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uh-huh. and now my forums are actually in my site (not a proboards one) whenever my sites down the forums crash too.

But phpBB rocks.

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Reply #5 - Jun 16^th, 2006 at 7:13am

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i like YaBB better, but i dont know how to set it up... Embarrassed

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Reply #6 - Jun 17^th, 2006 at 12:35am

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i like YaBB better, but i dont know how to set it up... Embarrassed

That's why I tell visitors at my site to come here to chat. I don't know diddly squat about managing forums. Grin

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Reply #7 - Jun 22^nd, 2006 at 2:49am

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phpBB can be set up in half an hour, including upload time. Creating all the different categories, forums, etc, could take about half an hour again.

And really, unless you want to go installing thousands of modpacks, phpBB is quite easy to use.

But, everybody has their preferences.

Is there a link to the YaBB site? and is it free?

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Reply #8 - Jun 22^nd, 2006 at 7:23am

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yeah its free, and its here but you need perl, and i dont know what that is... Embarrassed

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Reply #9 - Jun 24^th, 2006 at 5:55pm

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cheap hosting can be found here
http://www.evohosting.co.uk/?gclid=CPK7srq634UCFQVsEgodrE6iRA

they are cheap, full FTP access
MySql for databases
and PHP 4

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Reply #10 - Jun 24^th, 2006 at 11:09pm

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*no ads

and preferably free!

Thats VERY hard to find, a quality host and no ads. However i know a host that makes up for haveing some ads, and um, let me find them again...

30 sec later...

Ok I got my favorite one found again Grin

Byethost here are their free packages: http://www.byethost.com/freeplans.php

Space / Bandwith / Sub-domains / MySql
1. 250MB / 20GB / 20 / 2
2. 150MB / 20GB / 20 / 10
3. 100MB / 30GB / 20 / 2
4. 150MB / 20GB / 1,000,000,000,000,000,0.... / 2

Each is designed for a diffrent use, 1 is for space storage, 2 is for MySql accounts, 3 is for bandwidth, and 4 is for more hosting, get as many sub-domains as you want.

Its a great system and the people who run it are VERY flexible. Last i knew they are willing to give you any extra that you may need if you constantly run out. It may have changed scince then however. It does have some ads (you wont find a good free host without them) They all have FTP, PHP, File managers. Its a great system check them out Wink

I did some searching on the first link provided and some of them have this and some extra but you have to post on their forums to continue use, with this all you need to do is use it to keep it Grin

not hard

Alot of the no-add sites require forum posting, thats just silly Roll Eyes

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Reply #11 - Jun 25^th, 2006 at 9:20am

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i think i found one. Or two.

phpnet.us looks quite good, im joining right now

awardspace.com also looks cool. The activation emails taking ages though...

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Reply #12 - Jun 25^th, 2006 at 11:13am

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I use awardspace for both my websites and it's pretty good
be aware though that it does have censoring software installed so if you have pages with certain words on it (and nobody is told what the words are) you will get a 403 error
i only had this happen the once though

long story short, i recommend awardspace

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Reply #13 - Jul 22^nd, 2006 at 12:26pm

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yep, i kinda abandoned awardspace simply because i couldnt figure out how to access ftp...

anyhoo, i now use dd.am

my new site is here: http://akulasoft.dd.am its a work in progress

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