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letterman@invalid.com - 24 Jul 2008 00:15 GMT

I assist animals in need and recently formed a non-profit.
I made a website ashile back and put it on geocities. That site is so
full of javascript popups the site is useless. I checked another at
50megs.com and found that to be about the same.

Does anyone know where a person can get a free website that does not
have popups? I dont mind a few graphic ads placed on my web page
(which is what geocities did years ago), but all this popup crap is
beyond tolerable.

Is there someplace where non-profits can get webspace?

Appreciate all help.

LM

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Ann - 23 Jul 2008 23:57 GMT

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:15:04 -0500, letterman wrote:

> I assist animals in need and recently formed a non-profit. I made a
> website ashile back and put it on geocities. That site is so full of
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>
> LM

Imo it's a false economy to have a website on a "free" server that drives
visitors away with annoying ads. Particularly when it costs only $5.95/mo.
(+ $20 one time setup) to host the site on a reliable server farm.
http://www.pair.com/services/web_hosting/ftp.html

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hubops - 24 Jul 2008 02:19 GMT

This one seems ok (not first hand knowlege)
It has an active discussion forum where
you can find out how to get a free custom domain name (pointer)

http://www.000webhost.com/

Good luck.
John T

>I assist animals in need and recently formed a non-profit.
>I made a website ashile back and put it on geocities. That site is so
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>
>LM

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letterman@invalid.com - 25 Jul 2008 09:31 GMT

>This one seems ok (not first hand knowlege)
>It has an active discussion forum where
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>Good luck.
> John T

When I first read it, it looked great, and I would have even sent a
donation if it worked out for me. But there is something seriously
wrong with that site. I created one exactly as it stated. I got an
email telling me it was activated. I logged in and uploaded a simple
(test) index.html file (which is what it's supposed to be named). I
also uploaded a small picture of a dog, which was included in the html
file. After that, the file and picture were on my webspace. Yet,
everytime I clicked on my html file I got an error message. Even when
I was logged in.

Like I said, the site looks great, but it does not work whatsoever. I
finally deleted it after getting frustrated with it. I even gave it
more than 24 hours to see if something needed to be activated. They
also sent me FOUR emails telling me it was activated. One would have
been sufficient.

Thanks for telling me about this site, but I may as well tell others
not to waste their time using it, because it's not working.

>>I assist animals in need and recently formed a non-profit.
>>I made a website ashile back and put it on geocities. That site is so
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>>LM

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hubops - 25 Jul 2008 21:02 GMT

Sorry for your troubles with the site.
I'm tempted to go try it myself, now just to see
if I can get it to work.
It's hard to believe that the host is a dud
when it seems to have an active forum with
lots of recent discussion.
Could you post your test page url here
for me to try to view it ?
John T

>>This one seems ok (not first hand knowlege)
>>It has an active discussion forum where
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>>>
>>>LM

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letterman@invalid.com - 26 Jul 2008 06:15 GMT

> Sorry for your troubles with the site.
>I'm tempted to go try it myself, now just to see
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>for me to try to view it ?
> John T

Yeah, I could not make heads or tails out of it once I had the page
uploaded. No matter what I did, whether I used the url that was
supposed to be, or the link from the email they sent me, all I got
were errors. Page does not exist, stuff like that.
I tried it from every angle possible. It seems there is a lot of unix
code on there, and if you look at the column for "permissions", (in
the file manager). I think these "permissions" may be part of the
problem, but nothing explains how to modify them. I dont know unix,
but it looks like unix code. What really confused me is why I cant
even view my own html file when I am logged in. So of course no one
else could either.

I'm fairly knowledgable with computers and web pages, but that site is
very complicated, almost like one needs to be a geek. That unix stuff
is really beyond me.

Those sites like geocities and 50megs.com are so much easier. Simply
register, upload the html files and the pictures and it's ready to go.
The web address is always www.mysite.50megs.com This site never told
me what my actual url was, which I suspected to be part of the
problem, but as I said I could not even highlight my own html page and
click VIEW when I was logged in. I got an error page. That's what
made me give up.

I already deleted the whole thing, including the emails they sent to
me. Rather than let it frustrate me, I deleted it.

I would be interested if you can get that site to work. Here is the
html file I uploaded to it, minus the graphic (since I cant post
binaries on here), the html file is in text format. Just extract
between the lines. Add any picture you want. This one was a 200x200
dog.jpg

PS, I created this page using the very old Netscape Gold 3.0
It always made good but simple webpages.

Filename = index.html
-----------------
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/3.04Gold (Win95; I)
[Netscape]">
</HEAD>
<BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#80FFFF" LINK="#0000EE" VLINK="#551A8B"
ALINK="#FF0000">

<CENTER>- Official Website
Tester
-</CENTER>

This is a
test

<CENTER>This is a
test</CENTER>

<DIV ALIGN=right>This is a
test</DIV>

<CENTER>TEST 
TEST 
TEST 
TEST
 TEST</CENTER>

<CENTER><IMG SRC="dog.jpg" BORDER=3 HEIGHT=200
WIDTH=200></CENTER>

</BODY>
</HTML>

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>>>This one seems ok (not first hand knowlege)
>>>It has an active discussion forum where
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>>>>LM

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Ann - 26 Jul 2008 11:51 GMT

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:15:59 -0500, letterman wrote:

>> Sorry for your troubles with the site.
>>I'm tempted to go try it myself, now just to see if I can get it to work.
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> uploaded. No matter what I did, whether I used the url that was supposed
> to be, or the link from the email they sent me, all I got were errors.

<...>

If you Google on the host name, that's a common complaint ... accounts not
getting activated and no response to emails to support. Also, a lot of
down time. And, the hosting company backing out of their end of the
referral program.

When you get 'nix error messages you don't understand, copy/paste them
into Google. Your FTP client should include the command to change
permissions (chmod) on the files you upload but you will have to learn the
basics. And its not going to do you any good if the hosting company hasn't
made your account public.

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letterman@invalid.com - 26 Jul 2008 14:55 GMT

>On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:15:59 -0500, letterman wrote:
>>
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>basics. And its not going to do you any good if the hosting company hasn't
>made your account public.

Thanks
That explains the problem. This sounds like a company I'd prefer to
avoid. At least I know what was going on now. I thought I was losing
my mind or something...... :)

Actually I found a useable free site "freewebs.com". It only took a
few minutes to set it up, and was easy to use,and worked immediately.
It just has their own small ad on the bottom of the page and no
popups. I can live with that. The only drawback, for free accounts
you can only upload one file at a time, not groups of them. But for
the 10 or 20 files my finished site will have, that's no big problem.

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Mr.Smartypants - 25 Jul 2008 22:20 GMT

On Jul 24, 9:15 am, letter...@invalid.com wrote:

> I assist animals in need and recently formed a non-profit.
> I made a website ashile back and put it on geocities. That site is so
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
>
> LM

Fer Gawdsakes! Webhosting is so cheap these days you could pick a few
beer cans and pay for one.

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