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1980s_john

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Hi,

I have a small website here:

http://vintagecomputers.site90.net/cpm/z100.htm

which is currently on 000webhost.com as a free web hosting site. Problem is I hit their limit of 100 unique visitors in a day which resulted in a suspension, and if this happens again (it will!) the site will be deleted.

So please can anyone here recommend a free web hosting company or even offer free hosting? I would prefer ftp access to update pages occasionally, not expecting a huge number of visitors or traffic.

Thanks,
John

PS here are the limits on the 000webhost :

The full free plan limitations are

Disk Usage: 300MB
Bandwidth Monthly: 3000MB
INODES: 10,000
Database MYSQL Table Limit: 100
Daily Unique IP Visitors: 100
Daily Request Hits: 10,000

The system automatically suspends users who exceed free plan limitations and allows users to appeal once and lets us remove the suspension on one occasion.
 
Hi John,

My suggestion is to buy a Raspberry Pi and host it yourself at home. I've written some articles on how to do this etc.

Currently my sites of amaus.net and amaus.org moved from hosting back to home once I got my fibre back (long story, but now
have appalling slow fibre due to living back in UK, so it just about works)

Anyways, assuming your ISP doesn't do something like Carrier grade NAT your home IP would be unique and then you can sit
the Raspberry Pi running Apache or nginx behind it.

This ways updates to the website are trivial because the Webserver can be on your home LAN, and you can run Samba on the Pi to emaulte a
Windows share for ease of updating (assuming you push files from Windows) etc.

Just my thoughts.

marcus b.
 
amouse said:
My suggestion is to buy a Raspberry Pi and host it yourself at home. I've written some articles on how to do this etc.
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I'd watch with having people do this if they aren't familiar with running Linux servers at all, there's a lot to go wrong that could leave your Raspberry Pi part of a botnet or mining bitcoin for someone else.

1980s_john said:
So please can anyone here recommend a free web hosting company or even offer free hosting? I would prefer ftp access to update pages occasionally, not expecting a huge number of visitors or traffic.
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Well, the link you posted is currently down (perhaps putting it here has gotten you over 100 hits already?), so I can't see what the site is like. If it's small and you're not hosting a bunch of huge downloads or something, I can host it on users.glitchwrks.com. PM me details about it, if you're interested.
 
amouse said:
My suggestion is to buy a Raspberry Pi and host it yourself at home. I've written some articles on how to do this etc.
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Perhaps the UK is different, but in the US, many carriers severely limit upload speed to less than 1Mb/sec, regardless of the download speed. Response to anything other than text is going to be slow.
 
I offer free web hosting for computer and programming related sites. PM if interested.
 
Chuck(G) said:
Perhaps the UK is different, but in the US, many carriers severely limit upload speed to less than 1Mb/sec, regardless of the download speed. Response to anything other than text is going to be slow.
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The same is true in the UK, plus many ISPs used to frown on people running open servers on a domestic connection.
 
https://sdf.org/?join

User level access is free and provides hosting. Account validation requires a single minimal donation to confirm your name and address (i.e. as a real person). It's been about a decade since I set up a user account and about four or five years before I sent the $36 donation for ARPA access.

They're also the ones who donated the 3B2 to the LCM.
 
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Lawrence Woodman said:
If your content is all static then you can host for free on GitHub. It works really well and is what I use for my TechTinkering website. It makes the site easy to update as all you have to do is push your repo updates to GitHub. Here is the TechTinkering GitHub repo.
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That's a really neat trick, but how does the name resolution work? I see your A records go to servers owned by github, but how is the resolution handled? Your repo doesn't seem to follow the guidelines mentioned at https://gist.github.com/TylerFisher/6127328 .
 
Trixter said:
That's a really neat trick, but how does the name resolution work? I see your A records go to servers owned by github, but how is the resolution handled? Your repo doesn't seem to follow the guidelines mentioned at https://gist.github.com/TylerFisher/6127328 .
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There are two branches master which contains the source for the site and gh-pages which is generated by my static site generator and is what is actually being served. The gh-pages contains a CNAME file which allows the server to know what website it is serving.
 
1980s_john said:
Hi,

I have a small website here:

http://vintagecomputers.site90.net/cpm/z100.htm

which is currently on 000webhost.com as a free web hosting site. Problem is I hit their limit of 100 unique visitors in a day which resulted in a suspension, and if this happens again (it will!) the site will be deleted.

So please can anyone here recommend a free web hosting company or even offer free hosting? I would prefer ftp access to update pages occasionally, not expecting a huge number of visitors or traffic.

Thanks,
John

PS here are the limits on the 000webhost :

The full free plan limitations are

Disk Usage: 300MB
Bandwidth Monthly: 3000MB
INODES: 10,000
Database MYSQL Table Limit: 100
Daily Unique IP Visitors: 100
Daily Request Hits: 10,000

The system automatically suspends users who exceed free plan limitations and allows users to appeal once and lets us remove the suspension on one occasion.
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Try asking Kevin Bowling, our generous PS/2-related site host. e-mail address via PM.
 
bifo86 said:
https://sdf.org/?join

User level access is free and provides hosting. Account validation requires a single minimal donation to confirm your name and address (i.e. as a real person). It's been about a decade since I set up a user account and about four or five years before I sent the $36 donation for ARPA access.
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Thanks! Being in the EU (for a few more days anyway) I created an account at SDF EU - https://sdfeu.org/w/join:join I have donated $5 for validation then a further $36 for ARPA membership (last Friday) but have heard nothing back. Seems to be a dead organisation? Please can someone validate me (my SDF account is vintagecomputers@sdfeu.org).

Regards,
John
 
Hi,

I chased up sdfeu.org and my site 1980s Vintage Computers is now back up at: http://vintagecomputers.sdfeu.org

I had to send an email (using the SDF-EU free webmail account) to membership@sdf.org, which was the account that the Paypal payments went to. They kindly responded within 24 hours and set up my ARPA membership (thanks!) which includes web hosting with SFTP access. I used Filezilla to copy the files across and voila!

Hopefully sorted now for many more years,
Regards,
John
 
Hi Larry,

Sorry for the slow response ... always seem to be busy !


Best I can say is to google


webserver site:majzel.blogspot.com

then this will (obviously?) find all articles I wrote containing the word webserver
 
Also, can I additionally comment that I've been reeled into supporting web hosting for my local /Village Hall/ in the UK.

I did a quick survey and found that hosting is now ludicrously cheap everywhere!

I use namecheap for domain registration and found out they also do webhosting for literally pennies per year. I found their stellar plus
package seems to offer unlimited storage and websites for 2GBP per month. Yep bonkers. Dont know how they can make a profit at these prices
Here is a link


https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/shared/
 
amouse said:
I found their stellar plus package seems to offer unlimited storage and websites for 2GBP per month.
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There are a lot of services like this but generally the advertised rate is either temporary or requires signing up for at least a 1-2 year contract. And the TOS have wildly broad restrictions on what you can use it for. Sometimes they will say that you can only host "websites" without "downloads" so it's important to check. Namecheap's doesn't appear to say that... but be careful not to post any "hacking programs" if you use it for a vintage computer site, nor any "streaming", nor any "rpg's" (sic)
 
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