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Where to Put Your Page
A guide to free webspace providers by Makoto |
These days, there are dozens of web hosters, and plenty of free ones, but with different rules and guidelines. The free ones often don't give enough space, have big ugly ads, or require you to learn FTP. All these deciding factors can drive one nuts! There's just so many! Kind of like senpais....
Usagi: Mako-chaaaaan ...
Mako:
Oops, sorry! ^^;; I think we should star out first with a list of factors
that go into choosing an FWP (Free Webspace Providers - thanks for the
correction, Dragon-chan ^^).
- Certain webspace providers give out certain amounts of web space, obviously. In my experience, 10 or 15 MEG has been PLENTY for one page; actually, the page took up about half as much space but you don't want to run yourself short. This is usually the deciding factor in choosing an FWP for me.
- Some FWPs have File Managers, like Geocities does, where you upload using their little program (you don't have to download it) and there's no option for using FTP.
- FTP is File-Transfer Protocol, and you need to download a program to upload via FTP. Places like Xoom and most anime servers use FTP. I would suggest looking at Tucows to find an FTP program.
- Often, an FWP will require that you put ads such as pop-up windows or banners on every single page. It gets pretty annoying, and I'll definetely let you know when an FWP requires this.
- Sometimes, servers go down and thus, the page goes down. I'll let you know whether an ISP is prone to going down often or if it's really dependable.
- Geocities
- The standard FWP next door; very fast, friendly and easy. You hardly have to know anything about webpages to put a page up here, because everything is done via File Manager. They do, however, have REALLY annoying pop-up ads on every single page. They give 11 Meg.
- Tripod
- They're the second FWP to come to mind. They give 11 Meg as well, and only put a pop-up ad on the index page, I believe. They're also fast, but have the reputation of nuking whole pages. (Always make sure you have a backup of every page!)
- Xoom
- Another leader in webhosting, they give out unlimited space- for a cost. Unforunately, they've recently started putting up these annoying frames in order to give everyone unlimited space. *_*
- Angelfire
- I've never had a page hosted by them, because they only give out 5 Meg, but they don't have any ads, and that's always a good thing.
Now on to the anime-related servers:
- Anime.net - gives out space, not sure how much
- Animecity.nu - subdomain and unlimited space but the application is usually not available ;_;
- Anime-manga.net - subdomain and 20 Meg, however they're SLOW in terms of server speed and the time it takes them to respond. ;_;
- Animedomain.com - several Meg, but I think they're closed for a bit
- Animeonline.org - lots of anime-related services
