web hosting dillema

[AdmiralAK]

Well...
I just got a nice little letter from Yahoo saying that starting April 1st, all "free" services on yahoo wont have FTP access anymore. This is a particular pain, cause when I upgrade my web page I upload eeeeeeverything with FTP, it takes less ime and I can see teh progress being made. With Yahoo's web upload scripts it takes more time to upload and it doesnt have an indicator to tell how much is done, which seems like it takes an eternity.


Yahoo gave me the option to pay $5 per month for tehse features:

25MB Web site
–
No advertisements
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5GB of data transfer/mo
–
FTP access
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Remote loading
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Tools to build web pages



or $9 for these:

Domain name
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25MB disk space
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10GB of data transfer/mo
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5 email accounts
(e.g., you@your-name.com)
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5 subdomains
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Tools to build web pages and more



I am not sure what to do. Eventually I wanna play around with php, but only the $25/month offers PHP. -- so with teh cheapest plan it would cost me $60 annually for a web page that I update only 3 times a year (when all goes well -- once or twice when things are too busy).


I was thinking of getting an older mac or peecee, wipping it clean and installing either linux, BSD, or appleshare and use that as a web server on my university network (since I work there it wouldnt be much of a problem) but the problem lies in the fact that I am not there 24/7, (especially on vacations) so what happens if power goes down? or what happens if I get discovered and get flamed by my employers ?


Do you guys know of any free web space providers, reliable ones with good access, little ads, and an OK amount of traffic that they allow ?

What do you guys think ?!



Admiral

[AdmiralAK]

no one knows ?


one more thing, I need to have multimedia capability

[BlingBling 3k12]

nope... i'm pondering that same question right now... i'll probably stick with geocities though...

[martinatkinson]

Hello!

I switched to Apple's Homepage a long time ago as Apple has no forced banner ads or anoying popup ads. One thing is I just wish I could figure out how to FTP to my server through Fetch to upload files instead of mounting my iDisk.

Have a great day!

Albert

[amo]

I freaking LOVE my iDisk. fast webpages, no bannders, no popups, email, and it's all FREE! I do wish we could use FTP, but for it being free I really can't complain.

[ScottW]

For those of you seeking HOSTING options, give me a shout.

webmaster@macosx.com

[adambyte]

I don't know how many of you this applies to, but here's what's bothering me...

First, Yahoo! Made and announcement saying that its GeoCities web space will no loger be available via FTP...

If you want FTP access back, pay up.

Secondly, Yahoo! Made and announcement saying that your Yahoo! address (ie whatever@yahoo.com) will no longer be available via POP3, meaning you cant' use Mac OS X's Mail.app or Microsoft Entourage to access your Yahoo mail.

If you want POP3 access back, pay up.

Who can we get these services from, now? It's so convenient to have these services from one provider... but now where do I look for free POP3 mail access (besides and ISP)?

[nkuvu]

Yahoo had pop3 access?? Dang, all this time and I've been dealing with their crummy interface. I have an ISP addy, but it tends to change (what with moving cross country, or when I get fed up with my ISP). So I just gave everyone my Yahoo address, and suffered through their webpages. (BTW, I've tried email forwarding services like mail.com (before they started charging me for my "free lifetime email forwarding account" ) but the email was delayed hours, days, months, or eternally).

*sigh* Now I know... when it's no longer being offered...