I can't find a good FREE web host

**kwokmengit** · August 27th, 2001, 20:48

Where can I get a server that's free & has all these features :

10MB of Webspace & above (Unlimited if you can find)
CGI & SSI plus PHP(if) support
LINUX OR UNIX Server ONLY
Small ads or no ads

If you can find a good webhost, thanks for your help.

**Bruce** · August 27th, 2001, 20:52

http://www.f2s.com

**LeX** · August 27th, 2001, 21:24

http://www.f2s.com is the correct URL.

**Bruce** · August 27th, 2001, 21:25

Same difference.

**LeX** · August 27th, 2001, 21:26

Gotta help the n00bs.

**-JC-** · August 27th, 2001, 23:44

Although Freedom to Surf have great features and no ad banners, they are SLOW! And for some reason they have cache clearing problems meaning that when you change your site it takes a day or so to change. It's a pain in the --- if you want to check your links etc. when you are building... as yet I haven't found a good free host (except Simpletown.com which closed down)

Good Luck

**LeX** · August 27th, 2001, 23:54

To (partially) solve that caching problem, press CTRL+F5 to see the updated files.

**-JC-** · August 27th, 2001, 23:59

Hmmm, I'm gonna try that out... other than the speed F2S is a pretty good host...

**mew** · August 28th, 2001, 01:59

f2s isn´t professional, you must wait for the next day because their serverconfigration, that means the configure all the users manually!

**ozefrog** · August 28th, 2001, 03:01

i find that .php files are not cached on f2s, so renaming your html files to .php extension may help the cache prob.

**LeX** · August 28th, 2001, 07:20

Automated everything doesn't necessarily mean professional.

Originally posted by ozefrog
i find that .php files are not cached on f2s, so renaming your html files to .php extension may help the cache prob.

Nope, they cache everything. All my php pages were always cached. No exception.

**ozefrog** · August 28th, 2001, 07:26

i find that very freaky, when i first got my account and it was running on html and cgi, it had the worlds worst cache problem, taking days and days to recache, now since i change over to php, its been running like a dream (well b4 i switched over to badpenguin.net)

**leonmagnuz** · August 28th, 2001, 11:18

if you sign up with f2s about a year ago,your f2s account will loads very fast with no downtime at all...my site is hosted on f2s server 033 and the speed is very fast....

If you signed up with f2s now,i think your site will be on server 046 and that server is very slow,with lots of errors and downtime.