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andrewduffell - Aug 23, 2001 - 04:06 PM
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Many people want a web host but don't know what each company provides. Here is a list of my favourite free web hosts and their features.

Edit: Freedom 2 Surf nolonger support free hosting, all free accounts are to be deleted on February 28th
Freedom 2 Surf

No adverts!
20 Megs.
CGI-BIN.
loads of support.

Freeservers

One Popup ad on each page.
20 Megs.
Customizable Guestbook.

Spaceports

Banner at foot of page.
Unlimited space.
CGI-BIN.
Free domain name.

You can also create a site with no HTML knowledge at Expage

SiliconOwl - Aug 24, 2001 - 08:19 AM
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I would add Portland to the list. They are far from perfect but do offer a wide veriety of services including MySQL, PHP and CGI access.

The main problem with their service is that at the moment it is impossible to use a CGI script which needs to write to disc securely. I have been trying to persuade them to change the system so that scripts are run as the user who owns them (rather than 'nobody') but they have yet to reply.

veger - Aug 24, 2001 - 11:53 AM
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I've an account without CGI support, so I use mycgiserver for the scipts.
They offer:

5 Megs of space
no banners
PHP (although they claim they don't)
Java-servlets
and more...

It's ideal to put scripts on.
At registering they ask you a question, to confirm you know something about java.