Free Hosting Offer Forum Suggestion

[ZoomCities]

I just would like to suggest that maybe we can filter the members that posts hosting offer in the Free Hosting Offer Forum. I have seen some new members with 1-5 posts who are posting their free hosting offer. My suggestions is maybe we can have a rule that before someone can post their free hosting offer, they should at least have posted 10,20,30 or more or be a part of a certain usergroup. The downside might be some spam posts from those members, the upside will be to lessen these kids that experiment by offering free host and be gone in 2 weeks or so (its the member that suffers)

There are pros and cons but I will let you guys to weigh it down and its just a suggestion from me :)

Zac

[Peo]

I can see your point, but I don't think it's a good idea. Some free hosts don't have the time to participate at the forum unfortunately. If they just wish to post one ad here to announce their new free host that is ok by me. Since that is valuable info for our members. There are other ways for our members to distinguish between old stable hosts and new, possibly unstable hosts.

[ZoomCities]

I can see your point, but I don't think it's a good idea. Some free hosts don't have the time to participate at the forum unfortunately. If they just wish to post one ad here to announce their new free host that is ok by me. Since that is valuable info for our members. There are other ways for our members to distinguish between old stable hosts and new, possibly unstable hosts.

I guess youre right Peo, maybe we can just find another way to lessen these kids that offers overselling host accounts then gone the next day or two because their server got abused or something. Also sometimes, when you see them offer like 1GB Space 20GB bandwidth or anything similar they automatically set this as a standard to people who look for hosts especially the n00bs. Then these n00bs will start demanding that amount of resources to the other free host providers.

Thanks again. :)

Zac

[James]

It's easy to label and disregard these hosts completely thinking that they shouldn't exist, but they are allowed to exist and they are "hosts" too. And overselling is a common practice.

[utcrazy]

This whole forum is constantly complaining about over-sellign hosts that are gone the next day, where are these hosts? Where are the complaint threads? Someone give me a list and I might believe you. I know they do exist, somewhere, but you wouldn't be able to tell that they are "taking over" FWS. Only host I can think of is PWH that did this.

[ZoomCities]

where are these hosts?

my point exactly...


Someone give me a list and I might believe you.

Unfortunately no one will spend even a second listing them. You will just know they exist because of the time you have spent in FWS. You will just see them come and go


Zac

[Jan]

Zac, the wannabes have been here and at every forum since hosting forums existed. Here today, gone tomorrow. That goes for both free and paid hostings. It is par for the course and if you are still there, why worry about the others?

[ZoomCities]

Zac, the wannabes have been here and at every forum since hosting forums existed. Here today, gone tomorrow. That goes for both free and paid hostings. It is par for the course and if you are still there, why worry about the others?

Yes you are right Jan, I agree with you. My only concern is that these wannabes have raised the standard of resources/requirements for free hosting. Most free host seekers now are asking a lot, some even ask for unlimited because they were abandoned by these wannabes that provided them with 1GB Space and 20GB BW or something similar.

Cheers,
Zac

[Jan]

Search back ;) Huge offers and *unlimited* have always been there since I joined nearly 5 years ago. And it will be around in 50 years to come. Don't sweat, do your own legitimate thing and you live to tell the tale :angel:

[Richard]

Search back ;) Huge offers and *unlimited* have always been there since I joined nearly 5 years ago. And it will be around in 50 years to come. Don't sweat, do your own legitimate thing and you live to tell the tale :angel:

yes, but Unlimited Diskspace and Bandwidth my be possible in the future, as soon as we start storing data in sub-space (Google it :P) everyone will want unlimited space. (Untill we fill up sub-space that is... Which is impossible...)