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Stump
December 20th, 2000, 14:17
Ideally, the perfect free host should have the following (yes, I know this isn't possible) from a scale of importance from 1-5 (5 being most important)

FTP Based Uploading (5)
>25 Megs Space (5)
Domain Support (4)
>50 Megs Space (4)
PHP (4)
CGI (4)
SSI (3)
>100 Megs Space (3)
Telnet Account (3)
MySQL (3)
"Unlimited" Space (2)
Site Promotion Tools/Cross Promotion/Button Exchange (2)
A POP3 Email Account (2)
Ability to Host others (1)
Multiple POP3 Email Accounts (1)
Log Access/Etc. (1)

Also, in terms of ads:
- No Ads is great
- Choice Ads are good
- Mandatory top ads are okay
- Popups/Frame ads are terrible.

I hope this helps FWPs decide what to give and what not to give. Wouldn't it be funky if they actually provided all those things?

NC_TOM
December 20th, 2000, 15:01
Every once in awhile someone comes along providing all this. They usually last about one month.

Nick
December 20th, 2000, 16:00
Originally posted by Stump
PHP (4)
CGI (4)


Are you nuts? CGI and PHP should both be 5's. Or at least PHP should be.

Cracker
December 20th, 2000, 19:38
Also, if your website uses frames, then in terms of ads:

- No ads is GREAT!

- Choice ads are possibly good (like with Netcabins, if NC_TOM is right about frames compatibility)

- Pop-ups are the only other option (unless you don't care if an adframe hides your site's information from search engines)