AloofHosting 200MB Disk Space/1GB Bandwidth

[bluetrust]

http://www.aloofhosting.com/

* It's Really FREE
(Costs are offset by a 2-line text ad placed in the footer of each page extolling the virtues of our parent company, SurveyComplete.)

* 200MB Diskspace
(About 2,000 images)

* 1GB Bandwidth / Fast T1 Connection
(About 20,000 visitors @ 300KB/second)

* Control Panel / FTP
(For easy uploading)

* Your URL:
http://www.aloofhosting.com/you/

* Business and Personal Sites Allowed
(Adult, hacking, and gambling are not)

* 2.0 MB File Size Limit

* Webpages, Flash, and Images Only
(Other file types like executables, file archives, and MP3s are not allowed.)

* Example: http://www.aloofhosting.com/dreggory/blog/blog.html (A depressed blogger.)

* 4,500 websites since Christmas Day, 2003. Servers running at 2% CPU load on average.

* Creepy users and hotlinkers are automatically isolated for deletion throughout the day. This ensures that your website gets the resources it deserves as a legitimate user.

The humanoids will not escape!

[darkcurves]

(This protects us from robots signing up. If you're blind, send us an email and we'll set you up.)

I think that is not appropriate. :confused5

[Skiyuki]

Originally posted by darkcurves
(This protects us from robots signing up. If you're blind, send us an email and we'll set you up.)

I think that is not appropriate. :confused5
Agree...if you are blind, how can you make webpages, surfing websites :o It doesn't sound professional

[Eliminator[MC]]

VI. Restrictions

Please keep in mind that your account is restricted in the following ways:

* No inappropriate sites: adult, warez, gateway, hacking, gambling, etc.
* You are allowed one account only
* Your webspace is for a website, using it for free image hosting or as storage
space is forbidden
* 2.0MB max file size
* 50MB storage
* 500MB transfer
* Webpages and associated graphics only (e.g. pdf, html, htm, gif, jpg -- only)
* No server-side scripting available
* Refrain from tampering with our text ad

With that in mind, we're really quite friendly and would love to hear any
suggestions you may have.
plz note 50mb of webspace not 200mb like the host says thats a copy after i signed up and then deleted the account as the control panel was of no use to me

[Skiyuki]

Originally posted by Eliminator[MC]
VI. Restrictions

Please keep in mind that your account is restricted in the following ways:

* No inappropriate sites: adult, warez, gateway, hacking, gambling, etc.
* You are allowed one account only
* Your webspace is for a website, using it for free image hosting or as storage
space is forbidden
* 2.0MB max file size
* 50MB storage
* 500MB transfer
* Webpages and associated graphics only (e.g. pdf, html, htm, gif, jpg -- only)
* No server-side scripting available
* Refrain from tampering with our text ad

With that in mind, we're really quite friendly and would love to hear any
suggestions you may have.
plz note 50mb of webspace not 200mb like the host says thats a copy after i signed up and then deleted the account as the control panel was of no use to me


I think they updated it now =)
This is what I get:
VI. Restrictions

Please keep in mind that your account is restricted in the following ways:

* No inappropriate sites: adult, warez, gateway, hacking, gambling, etc.
* You are allowed one account only
* Your webspace is for a website, using it for free image hosting or as storage space will
get your account deleted
* 2.0MB max file size
* 200MB storage
* 1000GB transfer
* Webpages and associated graphics only (e.g. pdf, html, htm, gif, jpg -- only)
* No server-side scripting available
* Refrain from tampering with our text ad

With that in mind, we're really quite friendly and would love to hear any suggestions you may have.


We hope you enjoy your membership!

[bluetrust]

Originally posted by Eliminator[MC]
* 50MB storage
* 500MB transfer


Last week we conducted a user satisfaction survey of our members (remember, AloofHosting is paid for by SurveyComplete, they do surveys every day) -- and over 40% of our members said that they would sell AloofHosting to their friends as "a good thing" if we offered more disk space and more bandwidth. So we upped the stats last Friday.

It looks like content is still ferreting out all the pages on the site that have the old text.

The whole 50/500 to 200/1000 change is interesting. A vocal minority of our users are acting like it's a really big deal, throwing parades in our honor, but from the administration side it's just silly. Websites on AloofHosting average 0.5MB of diskspace and 6MB of transfer. Few sites ever tapped out our old limits, so it doesn't actually cost us anything to offer a little more.

People are funny like that. It's always the guy with the bad poetry who wants more bandwidth.

[edited to fix typos]

[bluetrust]

Originally posted by Skiyuki
Agree...if you are blind, how can you make webpages, surfing websites :o It doesn't sound professional

Actually, we've been advised that there's a remote possibility we could be sued (http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-1022814.html) for using a Captcha (http://www.captcha.net/) in the signup page by the blind under the Americans with Disabilities Act. So we give an email address as an alternate way to signup for those that can't see the image.