If you are a Christian, you might consider reading
before using the following tools.
A list of references to help you get online.
(in no particular order).
Internet access providers
free web server space (but you have to display their advertising)
(in no particular order)
[FIXME: move to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_hosting
...
or
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Hosting/Free/
]
- http://www.snetweb.com/school/index.shtml
|
http://hosting.snet.net/school/
``every non-profit public, state approved private and parochial K-12 school
and public library in the state of Connecticut may host one free Web site on SNET's servers.''
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http://50megs.com/
Free site "has Banners/pop/ups"
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free website ... ad supported
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
/* was
http://www.Tripod.com/
*/
20 MB of free web space;
"JavaScript & CGI Library"
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/campaigns/landing/free/
Easy to remember site name (yourname.tripod.com)
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Netscape offers free web site and email;
http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/smallbusiness/onlineessentials/start.html
and
http://webmail.netscape.com/tpl/Door/Login?
|
http://webmail.netscape.com/
[offline ?]
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$0 /month (No Setup Fee)
no banners or pop-up ads
http://www.doteasy.com/index.cfm?A=freehosts
It seems you must already have your own domain name (?)
or buy a domain name through doteasy
(typically $25/year)
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http://www.newbiesite.com/index2.asp?Affid=14
"free web hosting, no banners"
but you must buy the domain name from them ?
$25/year
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http://referral.ms11.net/?referral=free-webhosts
"no banner ads or pop-ups on your pages.
MS11.net will never bill you or shut down your site.
All you pay is an $11 activation fee"
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"Don't mind ads on your site? Then you can get started with a free GeoCities home page."
http://geocities.yahoo.com/
...
20 MB free web space
/* was
http://www.GeoCities.com/
*/
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Free Accounts ... ad-supported
http://signup.uwebtrace.com/cgi-bin/show_me?page=hosting_compare&noexit=1
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http://www.RedRival.com/
Free Accounts ...
http://home.redrival.com/index.php?join
support forums
20 MB of web space
Free SSI/XSSI Scripting
... ad-supported
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No-Cost Hosting Service...
Banners at the bottom of page only.
http://www.freehomepages.com/
50 MB web space,
free guestbook.
Free Chat Board.
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http://free.hostdepartment.com/
free, no pop-up ads
includes web hosting statistics
"http://free.hostdepartment.com/you"
"Free Guest Book, WWW Board/Forum, Forms"
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free, no pop-up ads
http://members.freewebs.com/
"we support server-side includes (SSI) free of charge."
"Your site's address will be: http://www.FreeWebs.com/yourusername "
40MB of space
... seems to allow Perl scripts ...
"Accounts with no logins and no hits for 60 days will be removed."
"With WebsChat! you can add chat rooms to your site in a flash!" (But how much does that cost ?)
All non-premium users are required to have the FreeWebs FreeBar Code on their website.
This adds a very small strip at the bottom of the website saying,
"This website is being hosted for Free by FreeWebs.com."
Live WebStats are only available to Premium users. Sign up for ANY premium service and receive LIVE Web Statistics for all your pages FREE of charge!
(note: non-premium users can still get page statistics by inserting a counter onto your pages through the Addons section).
- http://www.ProHosting.com/
might be the same as
http://free.prohosting.com/
which
claims
"NO Banner Advertisements!"
(and see
http://www.searchlores.org/phostban.htm
)
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(20 MB free web space, + free email)
http://www2.fortunecity.com/cgi-bin/homepage/estate.pl?referer=E-eye1-448-9
FortuneCity's ad-supported free web hosting
http://www.fortunecity.com/join/join.shtml
...
http://www2.fortunecity.com/
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2005-06-13:
Alas, Angel Towns no longer has free web site hosting.
Angel Towns
http://www.angeltowns.com/
"Our goal is to provide free, quality, web site hosting
for everyone that is interested in making a child safe web site."
claims
"free ... 50 megabytes of space with no ads."
"All of our free sites come with free web boards."
To get server-site includes, must pay for a registered account --
"A registered account is only a one time fee of $10."
The biggest drawback seems to be:
Pages are subject to removal, if there is no member activity (account logins) in the member account for 30 days.
"Sorry, but we only accept free account sign ups during the first five days of each month."
The catch:
They make money buy selling advertising space.
The webmasters who update their web pages see this advertising,
not the casual reader who reads those web pages.
Angel Towns also has a $9.95/year plan that sounds like a pretty good deal.
See
http://www.angeltowns.com/comp.html
for a comparison of the free plan and the $9.95/year plan.
- http://www.webjump.com/
25 MB of web space
[offline ?]
- CGIRealm.comhttp://www.cgirealms.com/
20 MB free CGI enabled web space.
- http://www.acmecity.com/
20 MB free web space; free email;
- Free Nation http://www.cybercity.hko.net/
7 MB of free web space and free email; CGI-BIN
- http://phrantic.com/
- http://xoom.com/
11 MB of Free Web Site Space + Free Email
- http://www.switchboard.com/
- http://www.freeyellow.com/
12 MB free web space
- http://www.Angelfire.com/
5 MB free web space.
free... with ads
http://angelfire.lycos.com/doc/subscriptions/index.html
http://angelfire.lycos.com/
- http://www.suresite.com/
- http://register.theglobe.com/join/register.qry
(6 MBytes free)
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The Internet Yellow Pages Network
http://iypn.com/freewebpage.html
[offline ?]
or
http://yellowpage.net/
There's another list of website hosts at:
free one-way email boxes ("throw-away email addresses")
free email: (in no particular order)
[FIXME: move to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_email_providers
]
Free email forwarding services:
email forwarding services:
Searching for Mailing Lists
See also
dav_info.html#mailing_list
(mailing lists to which DAV has subscribed).
If you don't find a mailing list on your favorite subject,
perhaps you can create your own
#mailing_list
(it's free).
Before using these services to set up a mailing list on some subject,
perhaps you would like to see if someone has
already set up a mailing list on that subject:
#mailing_list
.
See also
local.html#pmail
(includes hybrid "starts out electronic, ends up on paper" services)
free mailing list hosting at
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OSU mailing list services
#osu
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http://www.topica.com/
free hosting, ... start your own email discussion group ...
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"FreeLists, a service providing free, commercial-grade Internet mailing lists"
http://www.freelists.org/
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Yahoo! Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/
/* formerly known as
eGroups.com
http://www.eGroups.com/
*/
free hosting ...
"start your own e-mail group
and manage all of your e-mail subscriptions
using a simple Web interface."
"free e-mail community system."
/* has also absorbed
ONElist, Inc.
http://www.onelist.com/
*/
/* has also absorbed
http://www.findmail.com/info/makelist.html
*/
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The Free "Cool List" Email Service
http://coollist.com/
set up your own free mailing list.
[offline ?]
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QuickTopic free bulletin boards
http://QuickTopic.com/
"QuickThreadSM lets you upgrade any existing group email conversation to a QuickTopicSM discussion
...
Participants don't have to change the way they work.
The conversation continues naturally by email, with no extra steps needed --
people simply hit the email Reply button as usual.
...
Essentially, you've started a mini-mailing-list that's backed by a web-based bulletin board
(or if you prefer the term, a group weblog with full email interoperability).
...
"
"How do I edit or delete a message that I posted?
If you were signed in when you posted the message (indicated by a star next to your name),
you can edit or delete it any time."
When you create a new topic, you become the topic administrator,
which allows you to delete inappropriate messages.
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"ListBot service has been discontinued."
ListBot
http://www.listbot.com/
but points to and suggests we look at
http://groups.msn.com/home.msnw?pgmarket=en-us
and
http://www.bcentral.com/
free online file storage
(non-public, private)
(see
web_space
for public web space)
(see
http://worldwidewiki.net/
for public wiki web space)
people who help you set up http://whatever.com/ .
See also:
Whois
can tell you if that clever domain name you thought up
search_tools.html#whois
has already been taken, and by who.
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How to get your very own domain name
``So you want your very own www.you.com or www.yourcompany.com domain name eh ?''
http://www.wdvl.com/Quadzilla/Domain_Names/
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"Free Domains"
http://webmastersheaven.com/index-34.html
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Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 09:48:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Josh Fellman
To: David Cary <d.cary at ieee.org>
Domains are about 9 bucks www.godaddy.com
free hosting, 50 setup fee www.freehostingweb.com
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http://hackingthemainframe.com/lite/thread.php?topic_id=2314
mentions
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http://www.whois.sc/
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http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/11/18/large_hosts_slash_domain_name_prices.html
seems to say domain names from ~ $7 to ~$30 per year
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$20/year domain names
http://www.namezero.com/domains.php
Domain-based email forwarding
Domain URL forwarding
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$15/year domain names
http://cwnic.com/
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$14/year domain names
http://www.ns.com/
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$14/year domain names
http://123cheapdomains.com/
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$15/year domain names
with 10MB web space (no ads),
E-mail account (POP3), etc.
http://nameroute.com/
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$15/year domain names
http://www.ampira.com/domain_names/
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$15/year domain names
http://wsmdomains.com/
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$99/year: 500 MB disk space, 25 GB data transfer/month
100 Email Accounts
CGI, PHP
http://fatcow.com/
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$15/year domain names
FREE Unlimited Email Forwarding
http://discountdomainregistry.com/
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$10/year domain names
http://easycgi.com/
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$15/year domain names (for 1 domain ... the $9/year is for .co.uk .org.uk .me.uk domains, $18/ 2years)
http://domainnamesystems.com/
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$11/year domain names
http://www.rackshare.com/
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$15/year domain names
http://dotmaniac.com/
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$10/year domain names
+ $1.00 /month "basic hosting"
Comes with your own webspace,
email account, ftp access, and ...
http://hostica.com/
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http://www.webjump.com/hosting.htm
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http://www.networksolutions.com/
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http://glo.com/domain.html
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http://www.dreamhost.com/
domain name registration
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http://www.nybusinesslink.com
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http://website.ws/
What do .WS domains cost?
Current Fees:
4+ letters
(for example ABCD.WS) $US 35 per year
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When you buy a domain name, your ISP usually handles all the details for you.
You don't have to directly deal with "InterNIC Registration" at
Network Solutions, Inc.
.
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Monolith Internet Services
http://www.ml.org/
hosts
"The Free Domain Project offers free hostnames to
machines and subdomains."
"Monolith is a non-profit organization ... dedicated to giving
free services to the Internet Community. It is completely run by volunteers."
Apparently it runs under Linux.
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From: David Cary <d.cary at ieee.org>
To: Mark Cary, Paul Cary
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 2:36 PM
Subject: Tokelau domain names
Dear Mark,
The country of Tokelau
http://www.tk/
claims to be giving out free domain names.
Do you think it's a good idea for me to claim a couple ?
--
David Cary
From: "Mark Cary"
To: "David Cary" <d.cary at ieee.org>
Subject: Re: Tokelau domain names
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:36:24 -0600
Free is only for URL forwarding. and you don't really own the domain.
http://www.tk/vc00802.html
not really all the cool but interesting none the
less.
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New Internet Domains
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Tech/Domain_Names_and_Registration/
``domain names ending in ``.museum,'' ``.coop,'' and ``.aero,''
...
``.biz,'' ``.info,'' and ``.name''
...
[have been] approved.''
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"Why does one use "www.foo.com" as a server name? Why not just "foo.com"?"
--
Tim Berners-Lee
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/www.html
DAV: I prefer plain "http://foo.com/" myself.
Why make stuff I type into the URI address bar any longer than necessary ?
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what's a good reference to getting a *computer*
connected 24/7 to the internet,
getting a domain name, etc. ?
I know one needs to buy a computer
(co-locations) or buy time on a computer (virtual server).
Also one needs to buy a "domain name" from
internic
http://www.internic.net/
for $35/year,
soon to switch (?) to
http://www.arin.net/
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http://www.wordsinarow.com/domain.html
has advice on picking a domain name,
how to register it,
and recommends
http://www.webwizards.net/
"a good, cheap web hosting company."
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http://ronholt.com/
has some information on domain name registration
and WHOIS databases.
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http://not.invisible.net/dot/
???
"Try our new improved program tongue tied to help you find names
that might closely match your desired domain name."
http://domainnamesystems.com/tonguetied/
???
other free web stuff
...
This page budded off from link_farm.html 1999-03-12
by David Cary
and has
backlinks