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wysardry

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I'm looking for a reliable free host that would support the use of subdomains of my own domain, as separate accounts. In other words, I'd like to be able to have www.mydomain.com, site2.mydomain.com, site3.mydomain.com all with different content on.

I also need to be able to run Links 2.0 by Gossamer Threads, so they would need to support Perl nph (non parsed header) scripts, which unfortunately no longer includes Portland or their partner sites.

10Mb of space (per site) would probably be more than enough for a while yet. I'd prefer inline ads, that can be manually placed anywhere above the fold (I only wish to place the page title and description above the banner).

MySQL would be nice, as would being able to include affiliate ads, but neither is strictly necessary. As soon as the sites get enough traffic to make it worthwhile I'll move them to paid hosting anyway.
 
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Try www.netfirms.com
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Originally posted by wysardry
I'm looking for a reliable free host that would support the use of subdomains of my own domain, as separate accounts. In other words, I'd like to be able to have www.mydomain.com, site2.mydomain.com, site3.mydomain.com all with different content on.

I also need to be able to run Links 2.0 by Gossamer Threads, so they would need to support Perl nph (non parsed header) scripts, which unfortunately no longer includes Portland or their partner sites.

10Mb of space (per site) would probably be more than enough for a while yet. I'd prefer inline ads, that can be manually placed anywhere above the fold (I only wish to place the page title and description above the banner).

MySQL would be nice, as would being able to include affiliate ads, but neither is strictly necessary. As soon as the sites get enough traffic to make it worthwhile I'll move them to paid hosting anyway.
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I can host you, that is if its a sim site ;)
 
Jan: Netfirms only offer subdomains of their domains - I want to use subdomains of my own domain.

StormClouds: The sites are link directories covering different subject areas. Even if I did have one about the Sims, the rest would still cover unrelated topics.
 
I didn't see custom subdomains mentioned anywhere there. The limit of one account per person pretty much precludes that anyway.

It looks like they are offering a good deal, but it doesn't look like they'd be suitable for this particular project.
 
I don't think there is any free host that offers subdomains. If you eliminate that feature, I may be able to provide you with some hosts, but otherwise, I strongly doubt any exist.
 
Well, there's at least one that does - Portland - because I already have subdomain sites there. Unfortunately, they've restricted the types of Perl scripts that will execute, so I need to move.

Virtual subdomains using apache or something similar would do (mod_rewrite?), as long as it's transparent to visitors and doesn't require a particular browser to work (like frames).
 
there's http://wi3k.com they offer
15 megs of space more on request
Unmetered Bandwidth
MySQL
cgi/PHP
sql/php
cgi/perl
sql/perl
domain and subdomain hosting
Free bopard installation and the owner is a hell of a guy
 
Their subdomains are of their own domains. I have my own domain, which I want to create subdomains of.

Say (for instance) that it's called links.com (I wish). I want to be able to have music.links.com, game.links.com, book.links.com etc. hosted at the same place.

It took ages to find the host I'm with now, so I know it won't be easy to find a replacement, but since the sites already exist now, I'm kind of stuck with having them as subdomains instead of subdirectories.

Thanks for all the suggestions so far though everybody, they might come in handy for other projects.
 
We have 3 existing sites (including www) that are actually live so far. They haven't been updated for a while, and we couldn't add any more because of the new restriction on certain Perl scripts.

I doubt we'd have any more than 6 in total, unless we offered subdomains to others using a cobranded hosting scheme or something. Any more than 6 would take too much time to maintain to a decent standard.
 
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