Free Business class hosting
hey,
so a friend of mine forwarded me the url of a company giving away a pretty decent hosting plan for free for 3 years. www.1and1.com. my guess is that they are about to start offering their professional class business hosting plans for dollars and, 1. want to debug the system, 2. want to be able to say "we host 2,000 sites" or 3. trying to get word of mouth advertising working (which you can see is working ).
anyway, i thought people might be interested as i've seen a bunch of folks with relatively crappy free hosting with very small bandwidth and monthly throughput. you get PHP, mySQL and SSH/pop/smtp access, 500MB disk space, ~5GB/mo throughput. you can register domains through them or just point ones you already own at their name servers. so far it's been working great for me and nicely covering the recent loss of my freeBSD web server to the plagues of aging.
as far as i can tell there's no catch. there's a bit of vague language that i haven't quite worked out yet that, depending on the reading, suggests that you might be obligated to pay for some amount of hosting at the end of 3 years. my take was that there was no catch, but i strongly suggest that you read through all of the license agreements and come to your own decisions before you sign on. i've also had some issues with connection speeds on their admin panels, but once i got everything config'd and was doing it all through SSH i haven't had any net lag problems.
disclaimer: i don't work for this company or really know all that much about them. i got a forward from a friend and it seemed worth checking out.
-me
[edited by - Palidine on November 1, 2003 12:10:42 AM]
I don''t even know, it''s for north americans only :-(
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Petter Nordlander
"There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. They who understand binary and those who do not"
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Petter Nordlander
"There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. They who understand binary and those who do not"
hey we accept people from all countries
take a look at our plans :
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take a look at our plans :
http://www.horustechnologies.com
A special gamedev promotion has started. Enter the following coupon code when you signup for a plan and get 50% off on the Starter and Power plan for a year!
COUPON CODE: Gamedev14321
Limited to the 100 firsts to subscribe. No contracts.
For more details email me at : ncloutier@horustechnologies.com
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