Do any of you all know of any free servers, compatible with phpBB without pop-ups and banners?
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
*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
Do they have banners and/or popups?
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
**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 **
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
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.
*Originally posted by evulish *
**Do you happen to have any kids on your team with broadband? If so, tap into that
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. 
*jeremy
*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.
*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
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.
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.
*jeremy
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.
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.
*Originally posted by yangotang *
Wow. you’re lucky. but why SuSe?
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
Real men use Debian or Gentoo 
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.
*Originally posted by yangotang *
**Real men use Debian or Gentoo
Pfft. Real men use Slack or LFS I use Debian, Slack, and a bit of LFS. I’m not totally sure what that makes me Real men use Lindows!!! runs away
*Originally posted by evulish *
**Pfft. Real men use Slack or LFS
kicks evulish 
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
*jeremy
*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.
*jeremy
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 …