Free webhosting?

A postal address is a whole lot better than total WHOIS privacy (even though it's still not ideal).
 
Techrat said:
No offense taken I get what you are saying.

I certainly realise that having a website isn't going to "magically" generate traffic, even if I do get hits I know that just because someone visits doesn't necessarily mean they will even have any interest.

Afaik those free hosts that I mentioned allow one to set up a fully customised site (you don't need to use templates), they don't have advertising, they have "gauranteed" uptime of > 90%. Sure as it's free you may think you can't hold them to that, but they also offer paid solutions which is where they get the money to offer the free stuff, in the hope that you will upgrade to a paid solution. Afaik your free site is hosted on the same severs as the paid ones so you should be getting the same service levels as if you were paying them.

Anyway this is all just some research for the future, to me a website is a mid-long term thing and not all that necessary right now, because I know it's not guaranteed to help me at all, though an online presense is good.

I have some other questions if anyone can advise me. I've seen that you can get "private" registrations for some domains, so your personal info doesn't show up on the whois database. Now I like the idea of privacy but does anyone think that having a private registration would look suspect to potential customers. I mean the average person probably doesn't know what the whois databse is or does, but the way people are on the net someone could plaster it all over the place (don't trust this company as they have a private registration blah blah blah).

Main thing I'm concerned about is the address info, do they require your physical address or just the postal address?
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Depending on the type of business, and if you'd like word of mouth type things (like MyBB) to happen then an online presence is necessary.

bullfrog said:
Most hosts wouldn't put paid customers on free hosting, unless it's really limited hosting without php, email etc. Reason for this is that if you give out free hosting you run the risk of spam being sent and scam sites being hosted. Which means your ips get blacklisted etc. The risk of this is way too great in free hosting. The hosts would generally do all they can to prevent paid hosting clients from being negatively affected by the free side.

Private registrations look very dodgy. If you're a legit business, why would you want to hide your identity or location?

Most of this type of information should be on your website anyways. Details like, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses etc.
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The private info on a domain is to protect your mail from spammers, so if you want to take other people's advice on not taking whois privacy "because it looks dodgy" then don't, just create a seperate email for your contact when you register the domain otherwise the idiots will find you and spam you. I recently forgot to use my "honey pot" email address in registering a domain name and a week later I'm getting newsletters I never signed up for (spam yay!)

Personally, it doesn't matter really, you could have a section on your website explaining your actions regarding the whois info (which is to protect yourself from spammers). And I don't care what RavenServers or bullfrog says ;) the spam filters won't catch them because they look really legit.


Oh, and don't click on DarkKnight's link, he just wants to cookie you and get you as his affiliate so he can make cash on the side :D
 
I have lost count the number of times I have seen (admittedly tech based, but that is mainly the subject matter of the forums I frequent) whereby a user would ask for the opinion of a (perhaps new) business, only to forget about them due to someone pointing out their use of WHOIS privacy. As with most things though, each to their own.
 
Sure thing. I unfortunately don't have the time to go through searches on the forums for a lot of examples, however you will notice that the majority of "Can I trust xyz?" kind of threads will result in a WHOIS and will be primarily judged by that information.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...Crimes-co-za&p=2711494&viewfull=1#post2711494
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?156523-Scam-Legit&p=2511647&viewfull=1#post2511647
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...omline-co-za&p=2011243&viewfull=1#post2011243
 
I don't know about these free hosting companies. Many of the biggies have recently (or not so recently) gone bust. Afaik, lycos has gone belly up, maybe angelfire (haven't checked)...

For R15 bucks a month you can get loads of space, traffic, emails, blogs, etc, etc, etc at my site. Probably against tos to post links here so PM me if you'd like some info..

John
 
The ones I posted (000webhosting, 110mb, byethost) are totally different to things like lycos and angelfire, afaik.
 
We've just launched a free hosting service. You can see the details here http://www.web30.co.za.
This is an initiative to assist new businesses. All we as is that you purchase the domain through us to help support the service.

Try it.. its free

Andrew
 
I can't see anywhere that is free or says how I can sign up for free or how it works...
 
Do registrars normally alert you when your domain is going to expire so that you won't lose it?
 
Techrat said:
Do registrars normally alert you when your domain is going to expire so that you won't lose it?
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Definitely, they want your renewal fee :) You should get quite a number of notifications, including from UniForum.
 
U can go with XnYnZ.com for register your domain name for your website small buisness with cheap price and also you can get 5 page free hosting.Also here you get extra free services..
 
Pay R9 bucks a month to afrihost and there you have a cheap domain you can use, with a nice bandwidth limit and enough free space.
 
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