What is the best free webspace provider?

[Opulent]

What is the best free webspace provider?

I only need html (no DB/cgi support) and ftp access would be preferred.
What I don't want is geocities or similar which only allow some tiny amount of daily transfers... but I'm not too choosy.
It is not that I am not willing to pay, but paid hosting is always a tricky business -- bandwidth size and download charges are 2 of the unforeseen issues that can be deadly.

Can you help? thanks.

[Naked Snake]

Well, Opulent, if you have Roadrunner Cable, they let you host your own server as long as it doesn't gobble up too much bandwith (like, a lot = 30+ gigs) a month.

[Opulent]

I have Cox.net, they don't allow any server applications to be running.(no ftp, filesharing, etc..)
of course, I *could* just do it anyway, but I rotate which machine is connected to the internet, so that isn't a very good solution for me anyway.
thanks, though, that was a good suggestion. :)

[Epyo]

Opulent said:

no ftp

Really? Wait, what do you mean by no ftp?

[insertwackynamehere]

I use GeoCities.

[NightmareZer0]

insertwackynamehere# said:

I use GeoCities.

GEOSHITIES SUCKS ASS!

[insertwackynamehere]

I never said it was good. I'm just to lazy to switch. However, I don't think they're necessarily bad either.

[Ichor]

Not necessarily bad? The only thing worse than Geocities is AOL (but not by much).

[Opulent]

Epyo said:

Really? Wait, what do you mean by no ftp?

no ftp server running on my pc.
I can USE port 21/23... it is against the user agreement(that means they can sue you) if you run a server on your box that others connect to.
like all things, if you just run a temporary webserver overnight or something so people can see your CS stats or something, they won't bother you; but if your Britney-porn ftp is hitting GB transfers a day, they will be knocking on your door. (Cox's lawyers, not Britney :)

edit: Geocities is something like 2 MB transfers per day or something unbelievably small. for html-only, that would be fine; for files that is not worth the bother.

[Lüt]

Ichor said:

The only thing worse than Geocities is AOL (but not by much).

Actually, I think AOL doesn't run out of bandwidth every time more than 3 people visit your page in a day. I've never seen an AOL members site shut down for excessive bandwidth usage.

[Ichor]

Yes, but AOL is the spam and lamer capital of all the internet.

[Bloodshedder]

Try Crosswinds. Decent enough, but there will be some ads or popups every time people visit your site. I don't know of any daily transfer limit.

EDIT: Shit. They had a free service a year or two ago. Doesn't look like it anymore.

[netnomad312]

Erm... I used to use Tripod. When I still updated my crap-ass site, that is. They weren't bad, 'cept they decreased their space allowance to 20MB somewhere along the line...

[mmnpsrsoskl]

freewebs.com

Not bad, 100MB I think, about 500MB transfer a month, and you only have to have a link back to the freewebs site.

[Opulent]

thanks mmnpsrsoskl, that looks great.
IE only, 40 Mb max, only 100MB/month, and you can only upload 1 file at a time :(
but what do you want for nothing?! :)
thanks.

[Sharessa]

mmnpsrsoskl said:

freewebs.com

Not bad, 100MB I think, about 500MB transfer a month, and you only have to have a link back to the freewebs site.

Yeah, except every file I upload to them gets corrupted after a week.

[mmnpsrsoskl]

Well, you can request that you get 100MB, and for the first week you only have 100MB bandwidth...but otherwise it's a pretty damned good provider.

Corrupted? Damn that sucks Dan. Just go throw a bunch of sporks at them :P

[999cop]

http://netfirms.com

The best thing about it is that it provides FTP access

[Julian]

999cop said:

http://netfirms.com

The best thing about it is that it provides FTP access

heh, that's where I hosted Deimos Lab.

[Darkstalker]

If you understand French :

http://monsite.voila.fr/ftpweb/boot/accueil.shtml

100Mo, good speed and I got a small script to take away the ad. That's the one I use now and I never had corrupted files, email spam or anything bad with it.

[Fletcher`]

Imp said:

GEOSHITIES SUCKS ASS!

geocities.com/dragon_69283]I know that.

[pritch]

I still use tripod for my lame personal site. Quick and safe, and not too annoying.

[Ultraviolet]

I remember back when FortuneCity was cool...

[netnomad312]

Yeah, those were the days. Then they started corrupting all my files and locking up all the time...