Recent content by Robbeh

Yeah; there are LOADS of people who do that (check flippa.com and there's always a few on there for sale!). It seems to be going okay though, and I'm intending on keeping it - last time around I sold it to a BIG company who I thought would do a better job than I could alone. The only...

It would be if I got the formula right - it's bandwidth divided by disk space, not the other way around! Feel free to use it :)

Oh yep, totally agree - you have to do it, otherwise you end up with a server full of porn & torrent files! If you want my formula, I drop all accounts into an excel spreadsheet and then normalise their disk and bandwidth usage to a percentage of the average. I then divide the disk space used...

Yeah, I'm getting a lot of auto signups too. As you say I think the only real way to handle it is with human intervention (as you're doing). It is dammed annoying though - it takes FOREVER!

Yeah; it does seem there are people who just buy a box and let literally anyone sign up for a site - the majority of signups are basically porn or illegal activities like file sharing but they don't care as it all adds to their numbers. Then they wait a few months, sell, and bam start another...

Hey! I just came across your post. My name's Rob, the original owner of 5GBFree. You're right, I sold the site in good faith to a much larger company, thinking they would look after it properly (I can't tell you who for legal reasons, but you will almost certainly have heard of them unless...

Hey All, 5GBFree.com, founded 2007 has 5 GB Space, 20GB bandwidth, PHP, MySQL and all the usual bells and whistles :) We have really lightening fast servers to make your server zip along and we hope you'll be joining us soon! Best wishes, Rob

I'll happily answer any more questions you might have on the forums :)

No I'm afraid not, each day we get around 500 new users, I'm sure you understand I can't add them all to my MSN, but myself or one of the other moderators will gladly help through the correct channels :)

Hi, Nope I'm afraid I don't give my MSN address out on the forums. You don't give me any details by registering for the forums - just your email address which you gave already when you signed up to 5GBFree :) Cheers, Rob

It sure is, but you can ask for it to be turned off whenever you like :)

yeah I got that ;-) I guess if you don't want to fill in a form and ask for CGI it obviously isn't that important :-D

heh no I'm not enabling it for non members, only members should get a vote. It's only a username it's asking for! Gerroff your bum and do it ;-)

I *think* we're also the only Free Hosting company to be run by our members: http://rlscnetwork.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1565

Hi, Yep, there's regular polling to try and understand user preferences on the site, but unfortunatly you do have to sign up ;-) Cheers, Rob