Between excelland and portland

[LastActionHero]

Between excelland and portland what would you guys recommend for a co-branded web space partner. Till yetserday i didn't know what communityarchitect required details by fax and i don't have a fax number, well i do but i'am not in a position to send a fax to them.

[Haze]

I dont think you need to fax them.. you should look into that again. As for the sites you mentioned. I would for sure stay away from portland. And if its your last result and you have your domains suicide note writen, for for excelland. But its a pure waist.

[Mandrake]

I'm currently using Excelland and their worst problem nowadays is, not only are they charging for most of their new features, but now they're starting to take features you get for free and charge for them.

One paid feature I might take them up on is, for a small fee, you can remove their name from everywhere on the site... Ad banners and all. Since putting their name on your site seems to give it an instant black eye, that might be worth it.

[LastActionHero]

Orignally from http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=2723

they're professional about it.

they'll read over it [maybe by tomorrow, since today's sunday], then email you a document you must fill out and fax to them, with al your domain info, where your root domain should be pointed. it sounds complex, but it's really easy once you get to doing it. it takes more time than effort.

members can choose between 4 ad types. there are no ads from their service on your homepage, they point your root domain at whatever ip address you tell them to.

[Ryan_man]

I see im not the only one that sees excelland as ... well... crap?

[keith]

no, you're not

[Canuckkev]

Originally posted by Mandrake

One paid feature I might take them up on is, for a small fee, you can remove their name from everywhere on the site... Ad banners and all. Since putting their name on your site seems to give it an instant black eye, that might be worth it.


So why would someone remove "Powered by Excelland.com" from their site unless the sight of "Excelland.com" meant the service was crap? To me, that just means they acknowledge their service is bad, and want to mak more money from it being that bad.

[Coolin]

Also, if you do remove their name and they do sign up because of it. They will abort their account immediately as they know that they hate Excelland.

[LastActionHero]

So any alternative then?

[Toefur]

I was considering using Community Architect a few months ago, and signed up, and got the email.

I never got round to faxing them though.
I'm again considering using them...buuuuuut...

Erm... what if I don't have an IP address for them to point the domain name to? I really wanna use 'em... but it's either these guys or none. no chance id use excelland.

[advantagecity]

I am frustrated on how to begin with this darn service. I signed up about a couple of days ago and got a email confirmation but no direction on how to begin the whole free subdomain hosting ole'deal thang. All I have in my account is just the cgi-bin but no scripts or templates to work with.

If someone had already used this service (portland.co.uk), please give me some support. Because I've also emailed them and gold figured...no response:(

Let me know guys on how to begin....Thanks!

[LeX]

Why do you want to co-brand with Portland? They've got 100MB bandwidth limits! Almost nobody wants that...

[advantagecity]

True, it's just that excelland is so slow.

[LeX]

Originally posted by advantagecity
True, it's just that excelland is so slow. [/B]
They are? They were pretty fast for me, just like F2S and Datablocks. I don't get it. People keep insisting that they are real slow, but then I would pay a visit and it loaded pretty quickly. :confused:

[advantagecity]

Originally posted by LeX

Originally posted by advantagecity
True, it's just that excelland is so slow.
They are? They were pretty fast for me, just like F2S and Datablocks. I don't get it. People keep insisting that they are real slow, but then I would pay a visit and it loaded pretty quickly. :confused: [/B]

They are slow about 60 percent of the time and fast on 30 percent. Their tech support just mention that their providers would get some outage at times and some community get some problems.

Now that portland.co.uk tech support mentioned no support or templates of some sort for members; I'll say on my end, I am giving up on free subdomain hosting.

[LeX]

Run it off your IP, if your ISP allows it.

[razor]

Originally posted by LeX
Why do you want to co-brand with Portland? They've got 100MB bandwidth limits! Almost nobody wants that...
i think if you have a 100mb for everyone subdomain, so if you break down your site into seperate parts and might be ok. that is if it is not a high traffic site or has alot of downloads.