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pepsiholic
August 13th, 2001, 20:19
OK, here are the addresses of two different web hosts who have unlimited space.

http://my.surfzone.at/
http://www.xoom.it/

I am signed up at both. Here is my problem and would appreciate any help anyone can give me.

At surfzone, they sent me a password to use but it doesn't seem to work. Does anyone use their services and what is it I need to do?

At xoom.it, I can't seem to complete my validation. When I click on the link from my email, it goes to a website and then if you agree to their term, you are supposed to click on the accept button and when I do it starts to go to another website, but seems to stall about halfway.

Any help with either of these would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Pepsiholic
Gayowulf
August 13th, 2001, 20:57
problems during the signup process can signal a bad host. try contacting the admin or helpdesk at surfzone. as far as xoom.it goes...
trenzterra
August 15th, 2001, 08:54
don't expect anything from an unlimited free host ;)
Bruce
August 15th, 2001, 09:28
Originally posted by trenzterra
don't expect anything from an unlimited free host ;)

Sure you can. You can expect it to have unlimited downtime and even expect it not to have unlimited anything afterall.
cheatpark
August 15th, 2001, 10:50
Whatever you do don't try Nightsteel (http://www.nightsteel.com). They are slow and everything. Just like phrozen said. You can expect unlimited everything. I'm sure nightsteel do unlimited everything. In fact they don't even have ads on your site. Try Tripod (http://www.tripod.com). They give you 50mb and are fast. F2s (http://www.f2s.com) give you 20mb and used to be good. I heard they are currently improving their service and will be fast again in a few months. Anyway, why do you want unlimited webspace?
niv
August 15th, 2001, 10:51
Originally posted by cheatpark
You can expect unlimited everything. I'm sure nightsteel do unlimited everything.

:confused: WTF? :confused2
Cracker
August 15th, 2001, 12:20
Nightsteel is slow because they're hosted off of a T-1 connection. Also, their unlimited webspace is really only 1 gb (which is practically unlimited, but still).
Bruce
August 15th, 2001, 12:46
Originally posted by Cracker
Nightsteel is slow because they're hosted off of a T-1 connection.

That's what they claim, but it's actually just cable.
AlabamaMan
August 15th, 2001, 16:13
nightsteel = cable

They lied about having T1
trenzterra
August 18th, 2001, 08:25
heh my DSL connection is 3 times as fast as T1
Bruce
August 18th, 2001, 08:29
You have a 4.5 megabit DSL connection? :eek:
Giancarlo
August 18th, 2001, 09:11
I really doubt that. :rolleyes:
LeX
August 18th, 2001, 09:59
Originally posted by cheatpark
F2s (http://www.f2s.com) give you 20mb and used to be good.
They've always been good! They're good now!
Ted S
August 18th, 2001, 10:44
What he means is hid dls download connection gets up to about 4.5 megs a second or 600k (which is highly unlikely unless he has business dsl). This of coure is irrelevant as in hosting UPSTREAM is what matters and the standard dls account offers about 180k down and 25 k up which is about half as slow as cables upstream.
Ted S
August 18th, 2001, 10:45
And if you really want to test your bandwidth check out http://www.dslreports.com/stest
Bruce
August 18th, 2001, 10:50
Originally posted by Ted Sindzinski
25 k up which is about half as slow as cables upstream.

25k upstream is slower than a 56k modem.
niv
August 18th, 2001, 11:04
:D

at least 25k is faster than 28.8k (20k)
Bruce
August 18th, 2001, 11:10
True... but I surely would hate to have DSL or cable in his area with those speeds.
niv
August 18th, 2001, 11:21
sounds like IDSL - 108K :D
Ted S
August 18th, 2001, 11:28
Originally posted by Phrozen


25k upstream is slower than a 56k modem.

No... no

25kbps... think of it like when you download and it says you are downloading at 100kbps...

a 56k modem downloads and uploads at around 6kbps although you can get upto about 8 with some luck :)
niv
August 18th, 2001, 11:31
25kbps is 3.125 kBps. :rolleyes:
Bruce
August 18th, 2001, 11:32
A 56k modem is ~6kBps which is ~48kbps.
niv
August 18th, 2001, 11:40
i thought a 56kbps modem was a 40kbps modem. I guess I was wrong :rolleyes:
Archbob
August 18th, 2001, 11:41
f2s is good. Actually I look for a free host with little features and space. Those seem to stay up the longest.

I currently use freehost.nu. They offer nothing but 5mb space but their servers are fast and reliable and they've been up for almost 2 years.
Bruce
August 18th, 2001, 11:44
i thought a 56kbps modem was a 40kbps modem.
I don't know. I'm to lazy to figure those out, so I just use this (http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/computer) converter.
Dyne
August 18th, 2001, 16:38
I use cable and I've always been fast, but sometimes I have a slight wait. Usually it's when a server is slow. I use an airport (a little computer that takes one connection and turns it into 10 without any speed difference) with my three computers and I can't believe the speed. It all depends on server speed and a few other things.

I had a friend who went up to his Dad's office where there happens to be a T3 line, and he installed Starcraft and the connection was fast. Thank you for listening to my story.