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LBK Rules
03-02-2003, 13:19
Do any of you all know of any free servers, compatible with phpBB without pop-ups and banners?
Jeremy_Mc
03-02-2003, 13:33
Uh that's really not gonna happen...

We could possibly give you space, but i'd prefer if you'd go to www.lycos.co.uk

it's a good server

*jeremy
Brandon Martus
03-02-2003, 13:35
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15824
Petey
03-02-2003, 13:38
Originally posted by Jeremy_Mc
Uh that's really not gonna happen...

We could possibly give you space, but i'd prefer if you'd go to www.lyocos.co.uk

it's a good server

*jeremy

Yeah, Lycos is pretty good.

--Petey
LBK Rules
03-02-2003, 14:07
Do they have banners and/or popups?
Jeremy_Mc
03-02-2003, 14:47
There are no free servers that have those features that lack ad's. It just doesn't exist. Those services cost money to setup and maintain...

I'd suggest using www.ipowerweb.com for a cheap host with those features, or use www.lycos.co.uk with ad's.

*jeremy
Trashed20
03-02-2003, 15:00
There are no free servers that have those features that lack ad's. It just doesn't exist. Those services cost money to setup and maintain...

I'd suggest using www.ipowerweb.com for a cheap host with those features, or use www.lycos.co.uk with ad's.

*jeremy [/QUOTE]

our website (lightningrobotics.com) uses www.ipowerweb.com. They are a pretty good host. Not the greatest but cheap. Always up, but can be slow at times. Its located in California, and we are in michigan so that could be part of it
AJ Quick
03-02-2003, 15:28
Go to http://www.webhostingtalk.com and ask for free hosting. It should work.
evulish
03-02-2003, 15:55
Do you happen to have any kids on your team with broadband? If so, tap into that :) Most team webpages don't generate much traffic...(ours maybe gets about 20 hits per day...at the most :D) If they have a dynamic IP address, you can just use a service that's being talked about in another thread...I forget which one but it's recent. Or if it's static, just buy a domain for like $15/year and point it to that box. All you need is a lowly p133 or something to run a server. So that's not the free way to go (better than paying hostings fees), nor the easiest, but it's certainly an option.
Jeremy_Mc
03-02-2003, 16:36
Originally posted by evulish
Do you happen to have any kids on your team with broadband? If so, tap into that :) Most team webpages don't generate much traffic...(ours maybe gets about 20 hits per day...at the most :D) If they have a dynamic IP address, you can just use a service that's being talked about in another thread...I forget which one but it's recent. Or if it's static, just buy a domain for like $15/year and point it to that box. All you need is a lowly p133 or something to run a server. So that's not the free way to go (better than paying hostings fees), nor the easiest, but it's certainly an option.

only 20 hits? wow...we get like 200+ hits and have gotten about 5500+ hits since the beginning of january.

our server is hefty...dual 800's with 512 MB of DDR running suse linux 8 on 2 x 30GB SCSI drives w. RAID on a ds-3 connection...we own the server and connection so there are no fees. :cool:

*jeremy
Petey
03-02-2003, 17:26
Originally posted by Jeremy_Mc
only 20 hits? wow...we get like 200+ hits and have gotten about 5500+ hits since the beginning of january.

our server is hefty...dual 800's with 512 MB of DDR running suse linux 8 on 2 x 30GB SCSI drives w. RAID on a ds-3 connection...we own the server and connection so there are no fees. :cool:

*jeremy

:ahh:
Wow.
Our site is running off my webserver right now...a 450mhz G3 mac running OSX 10.2.3 with apache, php4, and mysql 4. I'm on a pretty nice static DSL line, but if we start getting traffic like that, then we'll be having troubles.
Luckily, our head mentor is friends with a guy who owns an ISP...and I also happen to WORK there...so we'll soon be partaking of a T3 that leads to an optic fiber line... :)

--Petey
Spiffyness
09-02-2003, 11:10
you could use geocities. there's a way to kill the ad suare at the top corner if you hack the code of your pages.:)
yangotang
09-02-2003, 11:49
our server is hefty...dual 800's with 512 MB of DDR running suse linux 8 on 2 x 30GB SCSI drives w. RAID on a ds-3 connection...we own the server and connection so there are no fees. :cool:

*jeremy [/B][/QUOTE]

Wow. you're lucky. but why SuSe?

Our server's some piece of crap that our school gave us, and it just sucks. There's no server side stuff at all, only apache.
Adam Y.
09-02-2003, 11:58
There are no free servers that have those features that lack ad's. It just doesn't exist. Those services cost money to setup and maintain...
Actually there is one that I know of but unfournatly you need to have a website in the first place that is well built.:cool:
Jeremy_Mc
09-02-2003, 12:41
Originally posted by yangotang
Wow. you're lucky. but why SuSe?
[/B]

easy to manage :) our teacher/advisor is good with linux, but not totally fluent. we can update, install and uninstall, and manage services really easy with SuSe with it's nifty little YaST interface :)

*jeremy
yangotang
09-02-2003, 14:14
Real men use Debian or Gentoo :D
activemx
09-02-2003, 16:29
i used to hunt for free hosts a while back, http://www.freewebspace.net/ was one of the best sites i found for free hosts. They have reviews for free hosts and also a forum that talk about hosts. Sometimes you can get paid hosting for free. Just hang around the forums alot. I got lucky many times.

though now since i can afford hosting, its better then free anyday.
evulish
09-02-2003, 16:58
Originally posted by yangotang
Real men use Debian or Gentoo :D

Pfft. Real men use Slack or LFS :D I use Debian, Slack, and a bit of LFS. I'm not totally sure what that makes me :D Real men use Lindows!!! *runs away*
Jeremy_Mc
09-02-2003, 18:29
Originally posted by evulish
Pfft. Real men use Slack or LFS :D I use Debian, Slack, and a bit of LFS. I'm not totally sure what that makes me :D Real men use Lindows!!! *runs away*

*kicks evulish* :p

i agree...slack is indeed the best.

i also enjoy all that root linux (now THAT is hardcore) and gentoo have to offer.

i made an LFS one time, but it disappointed me...i didn't feel all special or anything :(

oh well...long live slack :D

*jeremy
joshk
09-02-2003, 20:16
Originally posted by Jeremy_Mc
our server is hefty...dual 800's with 512 MB of DDR running suse linux 8 on 2 x 30GB SCSI drives w. RAID on a ds-3 connection...we own the server and connection so there are no fees. :cool:
*jeremy [/B]
Agh, lucky sod! We have our harker-robotics.org domain on some iffy virtualhost (cwihosting.com) but we have DB support and hence we can run phpBB. the school is footing the bill, though. so who's arguing?

If you have a cable, always on internet connection, you could probably host your website yourself with little trouble, and you can install all the PHP and SQL and phpBB you want. My webserver http://triplehelix.org is a K6-2 450 running Debian GNU/Linux.. works great for me =D. And I just have a DSL line, 1536/288. But you need quite a bit of free time to set it up just the way you like it ... :)