Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] bad news
Date: May 23, 2002 @ 20:30
Author: John Seeliger ("John Seeliger" <jseelige@...>)
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From: kahbeh2000
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 2:32
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Subject: [BoundaryPoint] bad news
Dear
border-friends,
free of charge providers of web-space are a blessing (as
it costs
nothing) but can be a pain as
well, as they have
pop-up ads and sometimes tend to be off-air.
Tripod used to work fine for
me, yet after the merger and renaming
into Lycos the service has
been instable, and now it appears that Lycos has DELETED the
contents of my side! 45 MB of
pictures are GONE. Yes, you read
correctly.
I complained bitterly, but you guessed it: no reply. Yet in
the
members-discussion forum one can
read (in Dutch) lots of similar
scary stories, of innocent people
who lost everything at Lycos.
Lycos
does not bother to put any explanation or statement on the
main page of its
portal, yet I
learnt from other members who have lost everything this
week as
well, that apparently last
Tuesday there was a fatal error
in parts of Lycos Holland, Germany
and some other areas. If the
data
can be recovered "they don't know" and probably don't care.
Anyone who
can suggest a reliable web-space host with fast server
and at least 100 MB
space incl.
FTP access, pls, suggestions are more than
welcome.
I'm even considering to pay for the service, if it's ads and
banner
free.
For the moment thus, it appears that everything is gone,
and if this
is the case, I'm afraid the
site won't be back in its
old format for a while.
So, I'm sorry, no more European borders at the
moment, unless a
miracle happens. Small
consolation, but can still
offer my other site about the internal
Belgian language border:
http://linguisticborder.tiscaliweb.nl
depressed
regards/verdrietige groeten,
Bernd
You might want to try looking at
<http://thelist.com>. Over on the left site, you will see:
Dedicated Hosts
Business Hosts
Co-location Services
Personal
Hosts
and you can look up hosting companies that meet you needs.
You might also try asking on alt.www.webmaster . I can't recommend any of
these on the list personally, since I only once had a paid site and even then
never used it, but most paid hosting companies I have seen are ad
free.
If you get a paid site though, you might want to get a
www.domain-name.com . I have used <http://www.lowcostdomains.com>
which is $24/year, but next time I will likely use <http://godaddy.com>
which is $8.95/year. There are a few other low cost ones in the sponsored links
at
<http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&querytime=Fx2WjB&q=domain+names>.
Here's
a hosting company, http://www.affordablehost.com/hosting.shtml> that claims
to offer 25 MB space 500 MB/month for $20/year. The lady that operates
that site is a regular on alt.www.webmaster and claims they have a 99.50%+
uptime <http://makeashorterlink.com/?H27E31CE>. They apparently have been registering names for
exactly two years yesterday <http://makeashorterlink.com/?C19E12CE> and throw in the basic hosting package (25 MB space/ 500 MB/month)
if you register with them <http://www.affordablehost.com/order/order2.php>.
But I have never used them so I don't know if the claim of 99.50%+ uptime is
correct.
HTH
-John