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rmsharpe
April 18th, 2001, 14:03
I've got a question for all of the "unlimited" free web space providers and hosts without advertising. How is it possible to maintain a free web host without any visible source of income?
cowax
April 18th, 2001, 16:03
It isn't possible... Every host that offered "unlimited" space and bandwidth didn't last, and most likely won't.
Giancarlo
April 18th, 2001, 17:53
Unfornately, very few host survive, the only So called "unlimited hosts" that survive are Crosswinds and Spaceports, mainly because they have a good, reliable source of income. But all of the other ones, that do offer Unlimited will be dead in the matter of two weeks - three months.
10Mbits
April 19th, 2001, 00:00
We have no problems with Russoweb.com, we can pay the bandwith and everything else. Please stop posting this kind of comments..

Torsten
LeX
April 19th, 2001, 00:45
Maybe that's cause you're still very new and unheard of, or maybe you just haven't met any real abusers. I'm telling you, nothing "unlimited" will last for very long.

Even though bandwidth rates are dropping lately, it's still costly, and if you get any abusers or too many users... you'll see.
BiteTheBugByte
April 19th, 2001, 03:59
This may be of interest:

http://forums.ikonboard.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=16;t=33
Giancarlo
April 19th, 2001, 07:02
not even spaceports is unlimited, there limit is somewhere around 1-2GB... as some sites on their server measure up to. However, they have had abuse and have had a lot of trouble for a long time. this Russoweb is unlikely to survive any of that.
sleepy
April 20th, 2001, 17:20
for web host, giving "unlimited space" means virtually nothing. bandwidth is the thing that costs.
most sites they take on will be small homepages etc.
the only real way someone can fill up 1-2gb of space is with illegal things, so they can be kicked off.
the unlimited bandwidth or space is a bluff that people can/will never call.
Giancarlo
April 20th, 2001, 17:40
And BTW, most of these so called Unlimited Services will only offer up to 25 or 50mb.
AlabamaMan
April 20th, 2001, 17:44
Hint for unlimited webhosts:
I rather sign up for hosts that says 500MB webspace or 1GB webspace than the ones that say unlimited webspace.
Giancarlo
April 20th, 2001, 17:47
Are there any that say that? Nope.
AlabamaMan
April 20th, 2001, 18:31
I think I just found one that says 1 GB webspace
http://www.knightsteel.com
Of course I will just put my personal website there for a while, then Ill put my real website on when its stable.
LeX
April 20th, 2001, 22:19
http://www.knightsteel.com was down when I tried to accessed it. So much for the 1GB it's supposed to offer...

Okay, now I know where the problem is. The correct URL is http://www.nightsteel.com without the 'k'. Anyone can figure this out after seeing Omari's thread.

[Edited by LeX on 04-20-2001 at 11:26 PM]