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Chris

April 22nd, 2001, 18:49

I signed up with them. They look good. They even host domains. I would have a backup site somewhere like freesevers, though, in case they go down.

AlabamaMan

April 23rd, 2001, 02:08

Im having problems with my test website on their server. Would anybody mind telling me whats wrong? my webpages and images are not displaying right.
http://msrva.x-stars-x.com

ashben

April 23rd, 2001, 02:14

Originally posted by AlabamaMan
Im having problems with my test website on their server. Would anybody mind telling me whats wrong? my webpages and images are not displaying right.
http://msrva.x-stars-x.com

It seems like the filenames are causing problem due to case-sensitivity. Try changing the image names in the HTML documents to an absolute case. eg: Change http://msrva.x-stars-x.com/thumbnails/tn01.jpg to http://msrva.x-stars-x.com/thumbnails/TN01.JPG

ashben

April 23rd, 2001, 02:28

BTW, Does this make sense ..

Presently we have 40 servers and 4 RAID arrays, able to handle up to 250Mbps of bandwidth. Each subcluster can handle up to 500Mbps and we can have unlimited subclusters on one cluster. That means that our system is able to handle an unlimited volume of bandwidth and an unlimited volume of visitors.

fatman

April 23rd, 2001, 02:55

Originally posted by ashben
BTW, Does this make sense ..

Presently we have 40 servers and 4 RAID arrays, able to handle up to 250Mbps of bandwidth. Each subcluster can handle up to 500Mbps and we can have unlimited subclusters on one cluster. That means that our system is able to handle an unlimited volume of bandwidth and an unlimited volume of visitors.

Heh. Interesting logic. :)

I suppose it's some host's latest argument to justify its use of "unlimited bandwidth". :)

LastActionHero

April 23rd, 2001, 06:44

what's the url?

ashben

April 23rd, 2001, 08:50

Originally posted by lastactionhero
what's the url?

http://www.hostonfly.com

LastActionHero

April 23rd, 2001, 12:37

from hostonfly.com

2. Free Hosting
We give you a Simple Hosting for free, but in exchange we will put our Banners (Splash or Ad Frame) on all your pages. This type of Program can break your site's design, and has limits like - 200Kb per file.

I don't want any ad to break my site design with a 200 KB ad file!

One plus point is they are located at above.net. The entire Cnet.com network is located at above.net.

[Edited by lastactionhero on 04-23-2001 at 01:48 PM]

meow

April 23rd, 2001, 13:07

Think they are saying
1) Ads break the design (=go for our paid option!)
2) You can't have files larger than 200kb on the free account

bigperm

April 23rd, 2001, 13:09

I don't want any ad to break my site design with a 200 KB ad file!

No, there is a 200k limit on the size of your files. That means that none of your files can be over 200k.

meow

April 23rd, 2001, 13:18

*lol* Hey, pigperm! I was faster on he submit button. ;)

bigperm

April 23rd, 2001, 18:58

That's because I previewed mine... Damn...

LastActionHero

April 24th, 2001, 06:45

he he
seems like i got that one wrong :)

jonny

April 24th, 2001, 07:18

Just signed up. You can have as many sites as you want within your account, problem is when you go to select what type of site you would like to create there is only a preium option. There are complaints in the forums about people getting charged for stuff they thought was free. Step carefully.

Jonny
http://www.umphdesign.com

BiteTheBugByte

April 24th, 2001, 08:01

That´s because their still in beta stage according to some particular functions in the members area.
Don´t fear that, if you´ve chosen the 'Free Website'- Option they won´t charge you for anything.

Anyways, I´ve posted this FWP some weeks ago, I wonder why nobody noticed that... This forum is full of reposts now.

jonny

April 24th, 2001, 08:41

I never got to choose a free option

BiteTheBugByte

April 24th, 2001, 08:52

As long as you didn´t sign up for "Host X Clicks" you get automatically the free account.

2. Free Hosting
We give you a Simple Hosting for free, but in exchange we will put our Banners (Splash or Ad Frame) on all your pages. This type of Program can break your site's design, and has limits like - 200Kb per file.
If you will try to remove or obscure our Ad Space on your site, your site will be removed!
All Revenue Programs for Free Hosting are the same as on Host x Clicks.
Click here to see what includes Free Hosting's package.

kojiro

April 24th, 2001, 15:16

Not Recommended to Beginners. I still can't figure them out!

beginner

April 24th, 2001, 16:25

Something about they:
http://www.hostonfly.net/about.shtml
http://mrtg.sc1.hostonfly.net/public/
http://www.hostonfly.net/founders.shtml (I was shocked 8-)

Ryan_man

April 24th, 2001, 16:27

All i can say about the people supposidly gettin charged, is: DONT PAY!
It's not a signed contract, and if they never gave their credit card number out then they are fine. .......

BiteTheBugByte

April 24th, 2001, 16:49

Exactly, and when you ask them personally (i.e. via email) you´ll get an answer saying that they won´t charge you.

Super8

April 24th, 2001, 22:21

Hmm, tried some test pages but cannot get .php pages to work. Seems that they only support php cgi scripts in the /cgi bin/ directory.
Clicked on 'premium hosting' (the only option) and had no ads on my pages.

LastActionHero

April 25th, 2001, 07:05

Originally posted by beginner
Something about they:
http://www.hostonfly.net/about.shtml
http://mrtg.sc1.hostonfly.net/public/
http://www.hostonfly.net/founders.shtml (I was shocked 8-)

May i ask why are you shocked?

Sick N Twisted

April 25th, 2001, 13:40

what is ftp for hostonfly.com ? i've been waiting a day for an email or something already

Ryan_man

April 25th, 2001, 14:59

Hey, I signed up over a week ago, and still havnt received an email. I think there's something wrong with their scripts. Because I even signed up again, with the same email address and name and everything, and it said the email was on its' way. Hmmmm, This service is crap.
The signup just shows how good the support is with this "fwp".

BiteTheBugByte

April 25th, 2001, 15:00

well, look into your members area, there are all login details listed, every person has a diff. port so I cannot name it exactly

ebird

April 25th, 2001, 18:11

Hi, Hostonfly is very good so far.

When I signed up, I got a message right away with the username. With the username and the password you have chosen, you can login into the menbers area and add ftp accounts.

Your general user name is something like: user0000
Then you ftp username: host0000,
Password: your general account password.
ftp address: forgot. Not just ftp.hostonfly.net.

The speed from SF is pretty good. Ping time around 20ms.
For wahtever reason, it's banner free now.

try http://free.x-web-x.com or http://go.cx

ebird

Omari

April 26th, 2001, 03:10

if php worked they would be exactly what i am looking, for i'll just gost my php somewhere else

Omari

April 26th, 2001, 03:14

are these guys ad free or somthin? it says this for clicks stuff...

BiteTheBugByte

April 26th, 2001, 04:24

They are not ad free and your account will be kicked if you try to bypass their banners, this may also happen when you include serverside scripts [CGI, PHP(which actually does work!)] because their ad system does not recognize or interpret the ad code for those pages. Look into their forum for more ...

LeX

April 26th, 2001, 07:57

Originally posted by meow
*lol* Hey, pigperm! I was faster on he submit button. ;)
"pig"perm?! *LOL*

meow

April 26th, 2001, 12:50

Oh my God! It was a mistake. :o My excuses to bigperm. There are worse typos one could make with bigperm's name. In fact, I believed for a time that his name was big*perm :D

romhost

April 26th, 2001, 14:33

HostOnFly are very fast and reliable. The one thing I liked the most about them is the Host X Clicks program. That means that I can have a free banner-less website with php,perl,mysql,etc. and that I can pay for my bandwidth with the clicks I send from my site. In my oppinion an excellent idea.
I have 6 sites hosted with them from about 1 year ago and I am very pleased with the services.
BTW, PHP is working fine!!!
READ THE FAQ!!! READ THE FAQ!!!READ THE FAQ!!!READ THE FAQ!!!READ THE FAQ!!!READ THE FAQ!!!READ THE FAQ!!!READ THE FAQ!!!READ THE FAQ!!!READ THE FAQ!!!READ THE FAQ!!!

Just making sure you heard me! I do not like people that do not read the FAQs on my sites or on every other site!

Best regards to all!

bigperm

April 26th, 2001, 14:53

I was going to say something about that, but I figured that you would edit it, and then my post would look stupid. Anyway, another ad for previewing your posts to save face.

rmsharpe

April 26th, 2001, 15:28

I can't believe they said that they'd have SPLASH pages...who wants to go to some guy's homepage and look at a bunch of banner ads that say "CLICK HERE" and then in little teeny 8 point Verdana "click here for joe blow's web page"...

I can see Hostonfly going down in maybe a month or two...I mean, it's bad when you don't have any customers...but when visitors find out about SPLASH PAGES...well, I'm never going back to any page with just a bunch of advertisements BEFORE a title page.

S.K

April 27th, 2001, 02:10

Could someone kindly tell me what is the ftp server address of the site.

AlabamaMan

April 27th, 2001, 05:28

When you log onto their Member area, there will be an option for you to Add Host (The others: Add Mailbox, add domain)
Click on Add host, they will give you the FTP address depends on your subdomain you choose

LastActionHero

April 27th, 2001, 06:40

Originally posted by AlabamaMan
When you log onto their Member area, there will be an option for you to Add Host (The others: Add Mailbox, add domain)
Click on Add host, they will give you the FTP address depends on your subdomain you choose

But on doing that I get
preferred option : premium hosting
and that is the only choice
what do i do?

BiteTheBugByte

April 27th, 2001, 09:56

Originally posted by rmsharpe
I can't believe they said that they'd have SPLASH pages...who wants to go to some guy's homepage and look at a bunch of banner ads that say "CLICK HERE" and then in little teeny 8 point Verdana "click here for joe blow's web page"...

I can see Hostonfly going down in maybe a month or two...I mean, it's bad when you don't have any customers...but when visitors find out about SPLASH PAGES...well, I'm never going back to any page with just a bunch of advertisements BEFORE a title page.

HostOnFly is there for many months now and they´re not going down ... I´ve been with them for a long time too and they were always good (at least for a pr0n host). They´ve relaunched their whole service, so don´t expect it to be perfect yet! Damn!

S.K

April 27th, 2001, 10:58

Originally posted by AlabamaMan
When you log onto their Member area, there will be an option for you to Add Host (The others: Add Mailbox, add domain)
Click on Add host, they will give you the FTP address depends on your subdomain you choose
But I have opted for a domain hosting.
I dunno what to do. The faq is scanty. My question has been voiced by someone in their "Chat", but not yet replied.
Could you divine the secret (!) for me.
Thanks!
S.K

LeX

April 27th, 2001, 12:12

Originally posted by meow
In fact, I believed for a time that his name was big*perm :D
Hehehe... you're not alone! :D
(If I'm thinking what you're thinking, you replace the * with the letter that comes after 't', right? ;))

romhost

April 27th, 2001, 15:17

If you want a quick support email at support@hostonfly.net and you will get an fast and accurate answer! That is what i did when smthing gone wrong in their web based interface!

meow

April 27th, 2001, 15:29

big-u-perm? :confused:
Ooooh, I feel my ESL is getting worse. Soon I won't be able to communicate. I'll have to make signals with my tail. :D