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    Junior Member thebloke is an unknown quantity at this point
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    Hi, I'm looking for an 'established' (i.e. won't shut down too soon) host that gives:

    SSI support
    a cgi-bin
    10mb+
    for a non-commercial site

    I also need popup ads or positional banners, as banners mess up the SSI.

    I've used the powersearch but most of the links that look interesting either don't work, or have no reviews. Does fs2 give ssi support, and do you need to use the ISP to get the webspace?

    Do Virtual Avenue (www.virtualave.net) allow or not delete on their servers personal pages?

    Thanks
    thebloke

    [Edited by thebloke on 11-26-2000 at 10:10 AM]

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    FWS Addict Mrh0ax is an unknown quantity at this point
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    I have not used vitual ave, but i know a few people that used them for personal pages, and there are probley more out there, but you can give it a try, it probley wont get deleted

    [Edited by Mrh0ax on 11-26-2000 at 12:05 PM]

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    Senior Member top is an unknown quantity at this point
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    I've been thinking what qualifies as personal?

    What is
    personal - non-personal
    for example my own homepage vs. my tennis clubs pages

    commercial - non-commercial (not peronal)
    What's qualifies as business? vs. my tennis clubs pages

    I know that at least Netfirms allows also non-commercial business sites... what's non-com business hmm........

    My 'non-commercial' site is located at VA and has not been deleted (one year experience).

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    no, sadly f2s doesn't support ssi. they would be a great host if they had ssi.

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    Member Robert is a glorious beacon of lightRobert is a glorious beacon of lightRobert is a glorious beacon of lightRobert is a glorious beacon of lightRobert is a glorious beacon of lightRobert is a glorious beacon of light Robert's Avatar
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    Cool


    F2s.com may not support SSI but it surely supports PHP and PHP has a great include command that works just like SSI.
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    Hey, can you post that php code? It would be extremly helpful. Thank you.

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    can anyone please post the php insert code?

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    Junior Member Sparky is an unknown quantity at this point
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    Cool

    lol this better be what you want cause i registered just to say this:

    SSI!
    <!--#include virtual="file.txt" -->
    or
    <!--#include virtual="home/html/file.txt" -->
    PHP!
    <?php include("/absolute/path/to/file.txt"); ?>
    Hope that works m8, cya
    -Sparky

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    Nice Shot cowax is just really nicecowax is just really nicecowax is just really nicecowax is just really nice cowax's Avatar
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    You could always use Netcabins.com. They say in their FAQ that they will take personal sites. They haven't yet put their ad system in their members' pages yet, but on that FAQ page it says you will be able to place an image map anywhere on your page. Maybe that will help ya


    Another thing... I would like to know, what is the difference between SSI and PHP? I've used SSI and I heard that SSI can really slow down the server...

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    NLC Chicken is an unknown quantity at this point Chicken's Avatar
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    Link to get you going with SSI:
    http://www.stars.com/Authoring/SSI/Intro/index.html

    pHp is a programming language, more along the lines of perl:
    http://php.net/quickref.php

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    i know how to do ssi, but f2s.com doesn't allow it...i'll try that php code and see if it works.

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    That PHP code didn't work. Are you guys either sure that f2s supports php or sure that the code is correct? Thanks.

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    Nevermind, I realized that the page can't just be plain old .html or even .php...it has to be renamed to .php3

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    Senior Member jvv is an unknown quantity at this point
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    Virtual avenue doesn't really care about the content of your page as long as it doesn't contain any illegal stuff.
    "Don't go knocking on death's door, ring the doorbell and run away, that really makes Death angry"

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    Senior Member top is an unknown quantity at this point
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    Or get busy...
    Or have BB that uses resources more than just html.

    On the other hand you can really trust VA. My site isn't the busiest but I haven't noticed downtime at all in one year that I have had my site there. Also the speed is very stabile and good. I recommend if you don't mind the pop-ups. F2S etc don't get even close as of speed and reliability...and I think that the downtime of the many other FWP's is a too big a price to pay for 'adfree' or 'unlimited' something.

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