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The Kes Website must move. But where?

Lynx

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The Kes Website is in trouble and might be on the move again.

Not because I want it but because of an unreliable webhost which is causing me a lot of trouble.

The Kes Website is one of he oldest Kes and Voyager websites on the net. It was launched back in 1999 on Geocities and everything worked fine until those greedy bastards at Yahoo decided to ditch Geocities. So I had to move the site.

After a lengthy search and with the advice from some nice people I did find 110mb.com in May 2009 and moved the site there. Everything has been going fine until now.

It has been impossible to edit the website since the beginning of November. I simply can't log in! All attempts to get in touch with those in charge of 110mb has failed. The recent week it has been impossible to access the main website for 110mb and there are a lot of negative comments about them on the net, saying that they are probably finished.

So I have to move the site. But where?

To be honest, I'm not that fond of the idea to pay money for a web host. This is a hobby project which I have kept up for many years. I don't earn any money n the website so why should anyone earn money on my work and interests.
So I'm looking for a place where I can put up my website. The problem is that most of the free web hosts seem to be sub-standard to say the least. Some of them are probably appropriate for those who want to create a four-page site about their pet rabbit (or dog, cat, horse, elephant or who knows what). But I want a little more than that and most of all, I want to move my website to a place where things are functioning and where it's possible to get in touch with those in charge if something should be wrong.

So if anyone who is reading this can give me some good advices, I would be more than happy. I don't want to ditch the website. It has been going for a while and it would be nice to keep it.

But there is also another problem. If I manage to find a decent place to where I can move the website, I still can't delete it from 110mb.com since I can't log in to my account or even access their website. Which means that people will continue to visit the 110mb.com site, notice that there are no updates, get bored and forget it. So what can I do about that? Spam every Star Trek forum with weekly reminders about the new site? :shrug:

Or just pray and hope that 110mb just call it a day and wipe out everything?

This whole thing is giving me a headache! :(
 
http://www.freeservers.com/

I have had some sites with them dating back to 2003-2004 that are still up.

http://www.bluebear.8k.com/ is one(of many I had)...I mainly used freeservers when my paid hosting with http://www.lunarpages.com ran out...if you are gonna pay for hosting I do recommend LunarPages...but for free hosting...freeservers should be fine. :bolian:

freeservers free hosting is limited though and with ads.

As low as $0.00 /mo.
Want a website but don't want to pay for hosting? Then this is the right hosting package for you.
Ads on your site
50 MB disk space

images can be hosted on something like PhotoBucket or ImageShack to cut down on size. ;)

[edit] Saw this; http://www.000webhost.com/ & this site list some free hosts; http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-7-easy-and-free-web-hosting-services/
 
To be honest, I'm not that fond of the idea to pay money for a web host. This is a hobby project which I have kept up for many years. I don't earn any money n the website so why should anyone earn money on my work and interests.

Perhaps because servers and bandwidth don't sprout from magic beans?
 
To be honest, I'm not that fond of the idea to pay money for a web host. This is a hobby project which I have kept up for many years. I don't earn any money n the website so why should anyone earn money on my work and interests.

Perhaps because servers and bandwidth don't sprout from magic beans?

Exactly.

And you can get a simple shared hosting account for $10 a year or less, if you look around. If someone can't afford that, I'd question why they even have a computer and Internet access. :p
 
It's the sheer greed that annoys me. When I did create this website a couple of years ago, there were a lot of free web hosts everywhere. I settled with Geocities and stayed with them for 10 years. Then all of a sudden, Geocities is closing because greedy Yahoo wants money, causing the "death" of hundreds of really good sites.

Then I look around and find that most of the free web hosts are gone too. Obviously it wasn't enough with making money from all those ads on the sites, they had to squeeze out everything they can from us amateurs who have made a website just for fun.

If I really have to, then I pay some vultures a sum of my hard-earned cash rather than ditching a website which I've put a lot of work and effort in for the last 12 years. But it will be only if I can't find a decent web host for free.

"And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
from the profit he has made of your dreams"

"The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys"
Traffic

PS
Maybe Paramount could support my site with some cash. That would be some consolation for "the changes in season 4" of Voyager and the horrible episode "Fury". ;)
DS
 
It's the sheer greed that annoys me. When I did create this website a couple of years ago, there were a lot of free web hosts everywhere. I settled with Geocities and stayed with them for 10 years. Then all of a sudden, Geocities is closing because greedy Yahoo wants money, causing the "death" of hundreds of really good sites.

Then I look around and find that most of the free web hosts are gone too. Obviously it wasn't enough with making money from all those ads on the sites, they had to squeeze out everything they can from us amateurs who have made a website just for fun.

If I really have to, then I pay some vultures a sum of my hard-earned cash rather than ditching a website which I've put a lot of work and effort in for the last 12 years. But it will be only if I can't find a decent web host for free.
DS

Not giving expensive services away for free is not "greed".
 
The axiom "you get what you pay for" is as true with web hosting as with anything else. And places that once subsidized free services with ads are finding that those ads don't fetch the prices they did five or 10 years ago.
 
http://www.freeservers.com/

I have had some sites with them dating back to 2003-2004 that are still up.

http://www.bluebear.8k.com/ is one(of many I had)...I mainly used freeservers when my paid hosting with http://www.lunarpages.com ran out...if you are gonna pay for hosting I do recommend LunarPages...but for free hosting...freeservers should be fine. :bolian:

freeservers free hosting is limited though and with ads.

As low as $0.00 /mo.
Want a website but don't want to pay for hosting? Then this is the right hosting package for you.
Ads on your site
50 MB disk space

images can be hosted on something like PhotoBucket or ImageShack to cut down on size. ;)

[edit] Saw this; http://www.000webhost.com/ & this site list some free hosts; http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-7-easy-and-free-web-hosting-services/

Thanks for reply and suggestions! :)

I've started to look at some possible options and www.000webhost.com might be what I'm looking for. If everything turns out the way I want, I will spend some of the Christmas vacation moving the website.
 
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