Bandwidth Issues

[Jester Of Fate]

Hi Everyone,

I registered for this forum some time ago about my postcards site, and here I am again hoping someone can help me.

I have my postcards site at Bravenet. Yay! And I originally set up an entrance and pick up site for the cards at 0Catch.com. However, I found out later that I had exceeded the bandwidth that 0Catch.com uses- even though there are only two pages on my site! I never knew so many people wanted to see my animated postcards!

So I tried to post my site at Koolpages and at Bravenet (where they now have free web hosting). Problem is that Koolpages, while saying they have unlimited bandwidth- is very slow. The bravenet address was faster by far- but I am worried the site will exceed the bandwidth again (the bandwidth allowed per month is about 500MB).

If anyone can tell me of a free web host that can handle larger amounts of traffic (for people to pick up the cards) I would sooooo totally be greatful!

Another aspect- but definiately a minor thing is- for the site to allow uploaded files to be more than 800KB or 900KB. This isn't as important as the bandwidth- I just really, really, really wanted to upload the 873KB animated visitor counter I made. :-)

Sincerely,
Jester Of Fate

[Bruce]

http://freewebsites.com has "unlimited" transfer and no file size limits.

I'd kinda hate to have to wait for that 800kB counter to load though.

[Jester Of Fate]

Dear Phrozen,

I was thinking about Freewebsites.com, but I read the reviews the other people at Freewebspace.net had of the place and they sounded horrible. The five people who reviewed the place said that there were numerous problems with the FTP programs, as well as other disturbing things. And one of the reviewers also said that if there were no hits in 14 days, they'd delete the site- possibly without even warning you about it.

Is all of this true? And if so- do you have any other recommendations? I really appreciate your helping me out with this. :-)

Sincerely,
Jester Of Fate

[damage control]

freewebsites.com is horrible, at least, in my experience. Don't bother!

[Weapon]

Originally posted by Jester Of Fate
Dear Phrozen,

I was thinking about Freewebsites.com, but I read the reviews the other people at Freewebspace.net had of the place and they sounded horrible. The five people who reviewed the place said that there were numerous problems with the FTP programs, as well as other disturbing things. And one of the reviewers also said that if there were no hits in 14 days, they'd delete the site- possibly without even warning you about it.

Is all of this true? And if so- do you have any other recommendations? I really appreciate your helping me out with this. :-)

Sincerely,
Jester Of Fate
do you come from a polite family? coz your english is very olite:o

[SoulReaver]

Originally posted by Phrozen
http://freewebsites.com has "unlimited" transfer and no file size limits.

I'd kinda hate to have to wait for that 800kB counter to load though.

Dont fall that no file size limit crap!!! The limit of files is 2.5mb login on to their ftp and you'll see message stating 2.5 mb file limit. Freewebsites Jerks!!!

[Jester Of Fate]

Dear Weapon,

I try my best. :-) More so with all of you since, you all are helping me out. Thank you.

So if Freewebsites.com is out, does anyone else have any suggestions? I'd need a site that could reliably handle larger amounts of web traffic for my postcards. I'd also like to have a file transfer that could take an 873KB animated counter I made, so I can put it up as well. However, as I said before- this that is a minor thing compared to finding a free web space provider that can reliably handle larger amounts of traffic.

I tried at Freehomepages, but after logging in a few times found that the server at times can be really slow. I also tried at Bravenet, where the cards themselves are hosted- but I checked the bandwidths- about 500MB a month, which is smaller than the bandwidth at the original site.

Again, if anyone has any suggestions I'd be grateful. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Jester Of Fate

[LeX]

What's the bandwidth limit for spaceports (http://www.spaceports.com)?

F2S (http://www.f2s.com) doesn't seem to meter your bandwidth.

[Bruce]

Originally posted by LeX
What's the bandwidth limit for spaceports (http://www.spaceports.com)?


20 gigs

[Ashed]

I think they lowered it down to 4 gigs. Not sure though.

[Bruce]

On their main page it still says 20 gigs so that's what I went by.

[Docevl]

Dear Everyone,

Spaceports.com has quite large banner adds. You only get 10 mega bytes, because they hardly ever upgrade accounts space. So I don't think that anyone should have them as their host.

Sincerely,
Docevl

:D

[LeX]

Well, the original poster didn't say anything about ads, he only wanted fast servers with reasonable amounts of bandwidth.

[Docevl]

Dear Lex,

Well have you every seen those adds? They are huge. You have to be mad to host your site there.

Sincerely,
Docevl

[ducktape]

what about host.sk

[LeX]

Originally posted by Docevl
Well have you every seen those adds? They are huge. You have to be mad to host your site there.
*shrugs* I was just giving the original poster an extra option. You have to admit, they aren't slow, and they offer quite a lot of bandwidth. I never said I was going to get my site hosted there, though.

[Jester Of Fate]

Hello Everyone,

I've just read the posts that came after the one I posted and have looked at both F2s.com and Spaceports. I'm not sure about F2s.com, because it said they make no claims as to the reliablity or availablity of their servers. Also, after reading some of the reviews some complained of having their sites deleted without warning and having very personal questions asked about them during signup.

Docevl was correct about the ads at Spaceports, but thank you for the suggestion nonethless Lex. You said in your last post that if you wanted to host a site, it wouldn't be there.

So I was wondering- if you all had to pick a free web host, given my need for a larger bandwidth (and possibly that FTP transfer), which would you pick?

Also- Michael B Bennett suggested I try something called host.sk, but I literally typed in http://host.sk and didn't see anything. Michael, what is the full address of the host you suggested?

Again, thank you for all this help everyone. There are lots of new free web spaces all over the place, and it REALLY REALLY helps having a place like this where you can find the best one for your website. Thanks. :-)

Sincerely,
Jester Of Fate

[Jester Of Fate]

Hi everyone again,

I looked at the new web hosts section and found the host Michael P Bennett was speaking about. But Micheal, there are a slovakian website and I don't speak their language. Also if they are slovakian, do they allow English websites?

Again, if anyone has any more suggestions- please feel free. Thank you!

Sincerely,
Jester Of Fate

[martian]

They allow English websites.

[Archbob]

In case you people haven't noticed, most of the reviews for free web hosts are terrible. An average of "7" like f2s is extremely good but also very rare.
I'm going to try them, and if they don't work, I'll move on. They offer free domain hosting, thats the main reason.

[trigunner]

well my website is currently hosted on f2s recently but sometimes it get kinda of slow....i thought of hosting my "decent" image files on another host

is there a very very fast host out there?
just need 1 or 2 mb of space and nothing else

[Jester Of Fate]

Hi Again Everyone,

I see your point about f2s, and will look further into it- though Trigunner mentioned that at times the server can be slow. This is the same difficulty I am experiencing with Koolpages at the moment.

Also, Martian mentioned that the slovakian host allows for English webpages, but I'm still confused as to how I can register with them and continue to read their updates if I don't speak their language. Is there some sort of free program that translates this into English for me and if so where can I get it? I looked for an english version of their homepage, but again- I don't speak the language so I wasn't entirely sure.

Thanks everyone for continuing to help me with this!

Sincerely,
Jester of Fate

[Bruce]

Just do a search in this forum for "host.sk" Someone already translated the registraion form.

[Chicken]

Originally posted by Jester Of Fate
Another aspect- but definiately a minor thing is- for the site to allow uploaded files to be more than 800KB or 900KB. This isn't as important as the bandwidth- I just really, really, really wanted to upload the 873KB animated visitor counter I made. :-)

Tangent alert:
Jester, what is the point of a 873KB counter??? Do yourself and your visitors a favor and don't put that on your site.

[Jester Of Fate]

Hi Again Everyone,

Phrozen, thank you for the bit of information and I'll begin the search. Thanks for that.

Lex, the website in question is very small- less then 1 MB total, I believe. The counter was one I made special for the website, and while it might not be essential- I still would try to try putting it up. Since the site currently only a place to pick up the greeting cards, there aren't many complex pictures on it. Maybe four pictues on the site, including the counter. The rest of the pictures are actually less than 35 KB.

At the original card site, the counter seemed to load find during the viewing, so I don't think that visitors would be upset at it. I've even received emails from visitors who saw the original site and said that they really liked my counter- which is why I was hoping to get that up as well.

However, as I've said before- the counter is secondary only to finding a site where I can get better traffic. So the search for that host.sk translation begins. :-)

Thanks everyone for their help thus far. Take care!

Sincerely,
Jester Of Fate

[LeX]

Whatever host you choose, I will always recommend F2S. They've been around for..... long time. They've always been ad free, and there aren't any signs that seems to suggest that they're going down the crosswinds path any time soon. There are some problems with the newer servers, that's true, they call 'em "experimental" at F2S. But, I still suggest you get an account when signup is available anyway and try them out. :)

And like Chicken and Phrozen (or whomever it was in the first page) said, there's really no poing in a 873KB counter, no matter how awesome the effects are.

[Hoth]

Maybe http://www.freewebz.com ? Says no ads, 100 MB, unlimited bandwidth, and it's been around at least a little while. Anyone know what the catch is with them?