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JesseGraham
March 30th, 2006, 03:39
Heya! im just wondering if anyone knows of any of the BIG! free web hosting companys, that have been around for years, im just wondering!
robert allen
March 30th, 2006, 03:53
www.hostmatrix.org have been around 2 years.
JesseGraham
March 30th, 2006, 03:55
ok, kool, And thanks for replying....
Trel
March 30th, 2006, 04:21
The oldest three that are private owned and are primarily focused on free webhosting are:

www.buildtolearn.com
www.lifelesspeople.com
www.clubhost.us

If anyone has any more that I've missed I would love to see them. :)
JesseGraham
March 30th, 2006, 04:26
ok, kool... but how do you know this?
Jan
March 30th, 2006, 04:36
Tripod.com and geocities.com for many years!
Trel
March 30th, 2006, 04:42
ok, kool... but how do you know this?

I've been in the industry for several years and I keep an eye on things. ;)

Jan is right. Tripod.com and Geocities.com are by far the largest and oldest.
Jamson
March 30th, 2006, 04:47
yeah but who can really do much on them.. sure you can have plain html pages but that is about it.
JesseGraham
March 30th, 2006, 04:55
yer, i agree... tripod and that SUCK!!!

they give like 250MB's of transfer..

do they even offer support?
Jamson
March 30th, 2006, 05:20
don't think so, but they offer a good knowledge base if i am correct.
Jan
March 30th, 2006, 05:25
250 MB transfer? I still have my original site there, and it is only slightly smaller than the copy at a paid host.
JesseGraham
March 30th, 2006, 05:38
really?

Could i see your origional site?
ZoomCities
March 30th, 2006, 05:46
We've been around for more than a year, I guess thats long compare to some of the free host provider here :)

Zac
pangolin123
March 30th, 2006, 08:18
well done, ZoomCities. :-)
xiaojun24
March 30th, 2006, 08:24
yer, i agree... tripod and that SUCK!!!

they give like 250MB's of transfer..

do they even offer support?
You post like a noob.
I recommend.
t35.com & iconrate.com & lifelesspeople.com & bizari's hosting.
JesseGraham
March 30th, 2006, 09:02
hahaha... well, i am n00b, im not a newbie, im a n00b, at least i admit it, witch is what you need to do, you n00b....

and thanks for the recomendations...
amz
March 30th, 2006, 09:43
The oldest three that are private owned and are primarily focused on free webhosting are:

www.buildtolearn.com
www.lifelesspeople.com
www.clubhost.us

If anyone has any more that I've missed I would love to see them. :)
Just to add to the above comment, the grand opening
date for Clubhost City was January 2, 1997.
JesseGraham
March 30th, 2006, 09:54
wow, thats been awhile....
needlehost
March 30th, 2006, 10:26
AVOID BUILDTOLEARN! They had a month of sql downtime a few weeks back, their getting unreliable. Also: one of their mods is a total idiot. total.
Bruce
March 30th, 2006, 10:30
Tripod.com for many years!Indeed. They've been hosting webpages since '94. I'm not sure any can beat that.
robert allen
March 30th, 2006, 15:28
My friends host lasted 2 months... is that not long?
Jamson
March 30th, 2006, 15:32
buildtolearn.com is ok, i used to be hosted with them.. until all the members turned on me and spammed my pm box then i got banned. :(
needlehost
March 30th, 2006, 15:40
jamson, its fishgames:) remeber scm? now that was unfair..
JesseGraham
March 30th, 2006, 22:16
www.a2host.com are also pretty reliable, they have had a little bit of MySQL downtime in the past 2 days... but all was resolved fairly fast....

Id rate them about 6/10, maybe an 8/10 if they didnt have the downtime...

im nor sure how long they have been up thought....
robert allen
March 31st, 2006, 14:59
www.a2host.com are also pretty reliable, they have had a little bit of MySQL downtime in the past 2 days... but all was resolved fairly fast....

Id rate them about 6/10, maybe an 8/10 if they didnt have the downtime...

im nor sure how long they have been up thought....
A simple whois should tell...

www.whois.sc/a2host.com

Less than 2 months...
EZHost Solutions
March 31st, 2006, 16:39
http://www.roxr.com

It's not that old (8 Months) but it's fast and reliable. 8000+ members.
Kevsin
May 10th, 2006, 18:35
http://swifthost.net/

They've hosted my site which hasn't really been active for at least a year now..

Pretty stable too. Not very well known though.
Whois shows they started in 2003
misterdh
May 12th, 2006, 18:24
Tripod and Geocities has been around since day one
Kwek
May 12th, 2006, 22:04
For me, ZoomCities and lifelesspeople.com are the longest.
Tree
May 13th, 2006, 12:45
Geocities
VanoX
May 15th, 2006, 14:38
freewebs.com is an old one, and a quite well known by newbies ;)

-VanoX