Tripod or 50megs

[nickline]

Hi there I am new here. This is my first one.

Can you tell me which one is faster and more reliable:
Tripod or 50megs?

Any other suggestions?
(with,=>50 megs space, Ftp, location USA)

Thanks for your time,
nickline

[cowax]

Some people say they have been having problems with Tripod the last few weeks. Out of the two you mentioned, I'd go for 50megs

[evil2k]

tripod is much better!

[Bruce]

Yes tripod is better, up until recently when they have been having problems. They even give you access to cgi-the kind that doesn't work. heh

[nickline]

Thank you all, but please give more info.

I have used a lot of free web space providers (geo, prohosting, virtual ave, and others)

But now I have to choose between Tripod and 50megs. Only these 2, match my criteria.

(subdomain, >=50 MB, ftp, US)

I don't know anything about them.

Does anyone know both of them?
I only have used 50megs for 1 month.

I don't know anything else about Tripod except that the cgi is not so good.

Are there downtimes?
What would you suggest?

[ndjx]

Freewebsites.com gives 50megs, a subdomain, FTP and alot of other cool features like SSI. Also a list of choice for a subdomain.

[Coolin]

Personally, I think Tripod is a much better host. You could also try http://www.hypermart.net but I don't think they offer a subdomain. You can get a free redirection service to your domain with http://www---------- or any other redirection service though.

[LeX]

Are subdomains that important? And why would you need 50MB+?

[nickline]

Thanks again,

to LeX: Yes they are. I need 50+Megs because this site is huge. All for HTML pages.

to Coolin: Hypermart is for business sites, (has subdomain) they offer virtualave.net(excellent ,+cgi-bin) but this is banned from AV.

nickline.

[Coolin]

Nickline: I have never seen a business site on Hypermart (just personal sites), so don't worry, they don't delete them.

[Nick]

Yeah, as long as you display their banner and you're not an illegal site, Hypermart won't care.

[Cracker]

Originally posted by nickline
I need 50+Megs because this site is huge. All for HTML pages.


Holy cats, how many HTML pages do you have!? You must have about 10,000 of them!

[Coolin]

He probably has a few images in there too. Or a lot of images in that case.

[Martie]

Dont know the whole story but I heard Tripod was deleting sites? Maybe it was just an isolated incident or something.

[speve]

I'll say 50meg 'coz MANY of my friends said their sites got deleted 'coz tripod says they are violating their terms of usage, then re-reply and said they are only clearing sites that they THINK have the potential to violate their terms... Come to think of it, not secure.

[nickline]

Thank you all,

I have made my decision to host it at 50megs because it works fine for 1 month for me. And Tripod has some problems, as some of you say.


About the site: It's all about online books. I have collected about 20.000 online books (URL's & descriptions) for all possible subjects. And because every book will have it's page 20.000x3k size (at least)=60megs. I'll cut down some content to keep it lower than 50megs.
Thanks again,
nickline

[Edited by nickline on 03-25-2001 at 11:59 AM]