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Posted by Spartanicus on 02/07/07 11:30
Toby A Inkster <usenet200701@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
>http://www.110mb.com/
>Apache 2, PHP 5.1, MySQL 5.0, 2000 MB space, 100 GB transfer.
>Total cost: 0.
>
>(The catches: ".htaccess" is disabled; Perl and Python are "coming soon",
>advertising on your 404 pages; PHP seems to be "locked down", with no
>mail() function or sockets, which is probably quite a wise precaution for a
>free hosting provider, but if you provide proof of ID, they'll open it up.)
Looks to good to be true, any comments from anyone who has used this
freebee package?
Having created a test account my initial experience is that FTP access
may not be available for prolonged periods due to being limited to 50
users and prone to disconnections when you do get in. It is currently
producing a 403 (Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this
server.) on my test account.
I might feel more comfortable about this offer if I could figure out
their commercial model. 404 advertising won't cover anywhere near the
cost of this service, and @ 100GB/Month allowed bandwidth I'd guess that
few hobby sites would go over that limit requiring a payware upgrade
package.
Btw, I'm still looking for the reason why hosting providers such as this
one are unwilling to enable .htaccess. 110mb.com only cite a potential
for "abuse", I don't get that since afaics what can and cannot be
changed via .htaccess files can be configured in httpd.conf fairly
precisely.
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Spartanicus
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