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rmsharpe
June 6th, 2001, 20:51
Peo, www.home.mastersites.com says that they do NOT offer things like CGI, PHP, or MySQL.

It's very cleverly hidden because it looks like you get those, when you actually don't.
Bruce
June 6th, 2001, 21:28
you only get 1 meg of space too. can't do much with that...
ducktape
June 6th, 2001, 21:31
you can start a fwp and offer unlimited space with 1 meg
NC_TOM
June 6th, 2001, 22:10
Hehehe.. umm.. how exactly can you do that?

I guess you could start a FreeDedicatedServers.com clone with 1 MB and offer free servers to everyone who signs up.. but of course your offer would be totally false then..
LeX
June 7th, 2001, 00:31
Is this guy for real?! (http://www.dto.f2s.com/Duhh/mastersites.gif)
Gayowulf
June 7th, 2001, 00:51
I think "Mike" is either the webmaster, or totally fictitious.
Max
June 7th, 2001, 05:55
freededicatedretroservers.com

check it out

intel 286, 640k ram, 8 megabyte harddrive. Blazing fast 300 baud connection.

Unlimited transfer..

All you need to do is to display 50 000 of our banners every month.

/Max
LeX
June 7th, 2001, 07:21
Cool~~~! :D
Peo
June 7th, 2001, 07:26
rmsharpe, thanks it's been updated.
Michael-MS
June 10th, 2001, 22:00
Hey everyone...

First of all, I'd like to thank rmsharpe for reporting the error in our site description. Perhaps they should be more careful in reviewing new webhosts? :D But then again, who am I to criticize.

Ah... and then we have all of the wonderful comments about Master Sites. If you haven't yet glanced down at the signature for this message, I do run Master Sites and would like to make a few comments of my own. :p

1 MB of space is certainly not enough to maintain a growing web site. Which is exactly why we only offer 1 MB. Our goal is to have webmasters upgrade their hosting status to 15 MBs of space for only $9.95 / year. Or even upgrade to one of our many virtual hosting plans. In the meantime, 1 MB is certainly enough to run a personal site for all of the people who can't afford web hosting. If I had the time, I'd browse through the 1000 or so customers of Master Sites and pick out a few good examples.

Also, I really had a good laugh out of Gayowulf's comments, because for one, my name is Mike... unfortunately, not the same "Mike" as the one who submitted their comments to us. He is one of many customers who are very happy with our services. Master Sites is one of the few sites that I know of (I was once only a webmaster myself) that offers free hosting without all of the complications that you find at Geocities or Tripod. Our hosting is banner-free and on a server that is not over-loaded...

On top of it all.... as you can see, we are very personal with our customers and do take the time to answer every support or sales question.

And if you still don't believe our customers truly do love our services, then try to explain these: http://www.home.mastersites.com/testimonials.shtml. (I don't have that much creativity, or free time on my hands. :p)

I'm looking forward to hearing your comments.

Michael Schulz
Master Sites Sales
www.mastersites.com
LeX
June 11th, 2001, 09:54
Originally posted by mastersites
And if you still don't believe our customers truly do love our services, then try to explain these: http://www.home.mastersites.com/testimonials.shtml (I don't have that much creativity, or free time on my hands. :p)
Maybe you paid someone with creativity to make 'em up for you? ;):p
rmsharpe
June 11th, 2001, 10:04
Why don't you link to the people's pages so that people know you're telling the truth about what they say?

I just think it would help for all of the skeptics.
Michael-MS
June 11th, 2001, 10:17
Sure, maybe that will help in the future. :)

http://www.free.mastersites.com/adsl247/
http://www.free.mastersites.com/88mph/
http://www.free.mastersites.com/cyberplex/
http://www.free.mastersites.com/euro2000/
http://www.home.mastersites.com/greguide/
http://www.home.mastersites.com/maya/

Those are some of the sites that came up when I browsed through a listing of our 500+ customers.

www.tbleckley.com is a customer who submitted their comments to us, but has since upgraded to domain hosting.

If you want specific sites for any specific comments, I can find those as well, but is this really necessary? :rolleyes:

Thanks,
Michael @ Master Sites
www.mastersites.com