Free website host?

[chimpy]

I was looking to start up a little web site of my own, Nothing fancy just a plain site to experiment with content but I noticed Geocites is no longer accepting new accounts and the others either cost and have poor reps like "GoDaddy" or just have poor reps on WoT.

Can any one recommend any sites?

Thanks.

[YoKenny1]

Your ISP usually provides Web site space.

Have a talk with your ISP support on how to set it up.

[chimpy]

I have never heard of that, thanks I will look into it. I just thought there were sites along the ilk of "invasionfree" and "zetaboards" that does free forums but for websites.

[mountaintree16]

@ Chimpy

YoKenny1 is right, most Internet providers will provide space for your website, I dont know of the cost (if there is a cost that is) or anything else though since I've never done that.

I've also heard of free web hosts, but, I think someone reported an IP block with that that wasn't a FP (I don't remember exactly though) so I wouldn't go with that.

I see you mentioned GeoCities, do you know if Geocities even exists anymore?

Let us know how you make out I'd be curious to know too because I might want to make a site again sometime B)

[chimpy]

I checked my isp which is sky.com and can not see anything about it on there but I will keep looking, Geocities is closing down and not taking any new people on but I think what they are turning into will be a "pay to use" web hosting site.

[mountaintree16]

Hmm. If you can't find anything on their site I would definitely recommend calling them just to double check B)

Hmm. So when you say Geocities is closing down do you know if they're completely closing down and taking things off of their servers or only taking on pay-to-use clients now?

I had a lot of fun with it when I used it though, it was cool exploring it and building my site.

[yardbird]

@ chimpy

Check with MysteryFCM since your both in the U.K. and he has a wide knowledge of websites... drop in on his: http://forum.hosts-file.net/

you'll fine YoKenny & me & a bunch on there from here

[chimpy]

Mountaintree16 all it says on the site is

GEOCITIES IS CLOSING ON OCTOBER 26, 2009.

New GeoCities accounts are no longer available.

Yardbird looks like I am going to have to hold off on the website now as my ISP is going to be issuing a tool so I can mmonitor my usage which is supposedly 2gb a month and if I go above that twice in six months they are going to bump me to a different tariff and right now I do not have the money for that B) and I have a suspicion that I have been going over it for the past two years when I look at there page on general usage.

[mountaintree16]

@ Chimpy

Thanks

Ohhh I forgot that some ISP's monitor how much usage their users use. Sorry you'll have to hold off on your website B) Good luck when you do make one, though, and it would still be worth contacting them and asking them about websites for your future knowledge.

[yardbird]

chimpy Ask Mountaintree16 if she will take the job as asst. webmaster B)

[mountaintree16]

?

[yardbird]

?

it was a thought...or should I remove your name from here?

[mountaintree16]

If you want, yeah I'd appreciate it. I just really don't know the first thing about building a website (especially from scratch), yardbird, other than a class I took one time with Dreamweaver ages ago that I don't remember very well B)

[yardbird]

If you want, yeah I'd appreciate it. I just really don't know the first thing about building a website (especially from scratch), yardbird, other than a class I took one time with Dreamweaver ages ago that I don't remember very well B)

building a website, is easy today, not like the HTML days, today you can drag & drop - point & click. and its done! Depends on the type of site...

[mountaintree16]

@ yardbird

that's true. B)

[yardbird]

it all comes back to you, real quick... B)

[mountaintree16]

that's true, I'm sure it would if and when I decide to make a site.

B)

[chimpy]

I still might give it ago, I have checked the new tariff and its as bad as I though B)

has anyone tried jimdo.com?

I see on wiki that they are trying to get people from Geocities to transfer to them.

[swagger]

I do a little development in HTML/CSS by scratch and have done some projects in PHP. I built my own website for my business at http://www.kmpcrepair.com with Notepad++ which is just a suped up Notepad. So if you need any help let me know. I know mine is ugly, it just lacks graphics which I can't do. My imagination is terrible.

[chimpy]

Thanks for the offer swagger, your looks pretty good! I am hoping that the site I found seems pretty simple but they are moving servers right this minute so I am wondering if it would be possible to check if it would be blocked by MBAM IP protection http://www.jimdo.com/ its down at the moment but I do not want to proceed if its one of those sites that host bad domains, The WoT has mostly green about it but there is one red that is worrying http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/jimdo.com < though its in german as the comp is a german site.

Thanks for any help on this.

[mountaintree16]

@ Chimpy

Good luck with the suggestion from Swagger!

Also, we used these sites in the class that I took:

http://www.webmonkey.com/

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/

(not sure how I remembered them, but I did )

I didn't get any IP blocks or warnings from MBAM or my AV, so the sites seem to be safe

[chimpy]

Thanks Mountaintree16, I think I saw on the wiki that they were hoping to archive all the old geocitie web pages for posterity.

[mountaintree16]

You're welcome Chimpy!!

Ohhh. Can you link me to the wiki page?

Ech, I hope mine would have been gone a long time ago.

[swagger]

@chimpy,

Try pinging sites... Sometimes, even if the website is down, you can still ping the web server... Open up a cmd prompt and type ping www.jimdo.com -- MBAM is allowing me to ping it.

[chimpy]

Ah swagger I did not mention I just use the free version of MBAM and not the paid so I do not have the IP protection but that pinging sounds interesting, what is it used for?