Advice for seting up a free web page
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Posted on Aug 07, 2003 11:19 pm
Sds2000
Member Since: Jul 17, 2003
hey people i want to post some of my music up on the site now but u need your own site and i don't know how to create one. I tried making a yahoo club or group and a msn group but they don't have enough storge space on them so if any one has any advice please let me know thats
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Aug 07, 2003 11:45 pm If you just want to do MP3's, check out either www.mp3.com or www.nowhereradio.com.
If you're hell bent on making your own site, try angelfire.com - they give you 25MB I think.
Or you can always sign up for a pro membership and you get free space on this site.
Aug 08, 2003 03:30 am does angelfire still hand out webspace? i thought they quit doing that.
they sucked but they were great. they were only 'occasionally reliable'--servers would go down sometimes--but they were just about the only place i could find that would host mp3's. good luck finding anything other than HRC, nowhere radio, or mp3.com. i've looked hard. i've even signed up for a few places that didn't have any 'restrictions' notices regarding mp3s only to find out that my mp3s would soon be mysteriously removed or, more often, would fail to upload due to 'invalid file format.' brinkster was like that. looked wonderful until i tried to actually upload a file. it's a shame, man. why doesn't somebody just ... start a company that lets you host your own mp3s on free personal webpages? i know there are copyright issues and the danger of people deliberately hosting pirated material, but there should be some kind of legal thing you could do to absolve the company from that?? or does it just rapidly turn into a wasteland of pirated material? how lame. yeah give angelfire a shot. the only reason i dont have the scoop on them is because my computer mysteriously stopped being able to access all angelfire, tripod, or geocities pages and i have no idea why.
Aug 08, 2003 04:59 am Well forty (and Sds) any "free webspace" is gonna be less reliable than a pay service, they are running on a much slimmer budget. The .com boom of the late 90's is over, people. If you had a .com in the late 90's people were throwing money at you and the "free" business model worked just on advertising revenues. Not so any more. People got to spoiled by the "free this and free that" of the .com boom.
There ARE places to get free space, Tripod, GeoCities, Angelfire, and others, but your site will be hammered with inline ads, popup windows and all kinds of crap.
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Aug 08, 2003 08:47 am If you have a broadband connection like DSL or Cable you can set your computer up as a server fairly easily... though SBC now has a hotswap IP address for the basic package (I still have to upgrade to thir static IP)... I liked running a server on roadrunner and DirecTVDSL (when it was in business) I just have an old pentium 200 running slackware linux.www.slackware.com I got my start running Xitami on a windoze 95 box... (scarry eh?)
www.xitami.com/index.htm
Xitami was pretty good for free but Apache comes with Slackware Linux and is automatically installed and running.
Aug 08, 2003 08:52 am Be aware that most ISP's get really pissed off when they find a server running on their network that is not expected and your account can be terminated.
Most ISP's have a "business account" that you must sign up for to be allowed to run servers on their network.
Also, if not properly configured you could open up your entire home LAN to the internet. You MUST NOT have your server and any other PC communicate via any network protocol except http, ftp and the like. Your server belongs outside your firewall (otherwise known as the "DMZ") while your home PC(s) are inside the firewall with NO direct communication, just being plugged in to the same router in order to share your ISP connection. No shared drives or anything like that.
