Anybody know where I can get free web hosting for my own domain? And know it's not for www.kegsy.com:) I'm not that vain!

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Answers

you can get it from anywhere really. I've used Freeserve and BT in the last year and they all have sites, so for example www.btinternet.com/~macbeth9/ is mine. Rik has his www.global.net/~riks/

There is a guy here who has used an Edinburgh ISP and has his own site of www.ng-fortune.com and it sounds like it standard from them. It depends how much you want to pay, and how much space you want.

My BT one has a monthly charge, but if you pay annually you get 2GB of space which should keep you going passed tea time at least.

Other starting points maybe www.webspace-online.com or www.iwks.com

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Thanks MacBeth, I've bought a domain name for the web www..com but I need an actual site to host it, I've heard that there are companies which will host it for free but failing that I'll have to pay about $20 a month. At the moment I'm looking for free ones because if they're slow I can change whereas if I have to pay to register I'll be stuck with it.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

http://www.soccerfans500.com/ are offering freeweb space. I've accumalated about 100mb of space across numerous free providers. Some are better than others - the one I've got most of the Daily Toon on I followed a link from one of Riks pages to Totalserve. Also got some space with Freeserve (not really used that), Virginnet (service is a bit up and down - see th is link for an example of that - if it works, and Angelfire - annoying as hell as they try and put their banners and ads in.
If you've registered the domain you should be able to direct the domain name to your freesite - ie the registration company either redirect to your URL - which means you don't see the .com in the URL address or you set up your account where they put your pages in a separate frame - which shows up the .com name but can screw around with some of the fancy dhmtl and jscript you've spent hours building.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Thanks scratchy, so basically I can use my regular ISP and just link from my domain name to there? I didn't know that. I've just signed up with some American site I think here Who offer 10 megs of space so hopefully I will be up and running before the endo of the month. With a far superior site to MSN, thus far it looks good, but we'll see when it's anywhere near finished.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

I got 100Mb of free space from fortune city alone. And their ads aren't as intrusive as some of the other providers. Just a banner ad at the top of the page. Much better than those annoying pop-ups(angelfire) and frames(xoom). I'm wondering if it's even possible to code the page so their banner is moved to the bottom of each page. Has anyone tried it?

Thanks for the tip on redirecting the doman name, Scratchy. I didn't realize you could do that. It will come in very handy for a project I hope to get back working on very soon! :-)

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

You can reister a domain VERY cheaply through http://uk2.net/ You pay extra for their re-direction to remove any advertising (79pence/month!).

They look good. Their hosting fees aren't bad either.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

mmmm, wish I knew that yesterday before I forked out $60 fot a name. Having said that it is a very good name

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Yeah I paid about #30 for the domain name which is yours for 2 years for that cost, they redirect any mails sent to that address to any other mail address and redirect the client browser to your other URL - ie I've got www.dailytoon.co.uk which redirects (in a frame whole browser frame) to www.thefarpost.totalserve.co.uk and the user just sees the paid for domain name in the address.
for #30 a time for registering domain names you've also got a good chance of registering a name a big company might want to pay you for! There was an article in the Independent about a guy whose registered domain names named after British authors - because when people search for sites some of them just put in www.name.com - so how much would you expect to get for www.alanshearer.com?

Bit of a digression there, but when people become millionaires for just created a dot com site there's gold in them that domains.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Scratchy..... who are you registered with? Is it UK2.net doing the re-direction?

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

I'm registered with domainsnet.com they do all that redirecting stuff.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

wor lass has one on freeparking.co.uk. it's something like a tenner a year for a .co.uk [more for a .com] but it seems easy to use and reliable - forwarding of hits to the domain name and e.mails, and so on.

-- Anonymous, March 17, 2000

xoom.com offer free unlimited webspace. As with most of the freebies though, there's no cgi, servlet, database support etc. No back end essentially, WYSIWYG.

I'd recommend peoplenames.co.uk for domain names...

http://welcome.to/toonarmy

-- Anonymous, March 24, 2000