- Any free ASP hosts still running out there?
- Posted by Mark P on September 2nd, 2003
I looking for something I can quickly set up a test site at. It only
needs to last a few weeks.
ASP, MS Access engine,
A subdomain will be fine.
No setup fee or rental.
I've already tried searching for one and all the hosts I've found seem
to waste time getting a registration but providing nothing is the way
of actual working hosting.
The best I have, so far, is a host which allows me to upload one page
at a time via a web-based 'control panel'. The FTP account they
provided doesn't work. That was www.7host.com
I can see I might have to capitulate and pay - so if there are any
very cheap solutions for a test site (very low volume traffic) your
replies will be appreciated. But, please don't bother replying unless
you've personally used the service.
- Posted by Adrienne on September 2nd, 2003
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Mark P
<mark4asp#nospam#@ntlworld.com> writing in
news:d459lv09fkn436mg67pgu5kejv9fkmn3gn@4ax.com:
I've been using http://www.domaindlx.com for testing sites. They also
don't have FTP, but you can put all your files into a zip file, upload
that, and they'll be unzipped on the fly.
My biggest complaint with them is a nasty pop-up. But, I always warn
clients about this beforehand (I even tell them to download Opera to
prevent this).
Their servers aren't the fastest in the world, but they do allow Access,
and they have Persists ASPemail installed so you can test mailing scripts
as well.
--
Adrienne Boswell
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- Posted by Grunff on September 2nd, 2003
Adrienne wrote:
I'm *never* going to get my head around this one. How can
someone who does web work professionally (charges for their
time) justify hosting anything, even a test site, on sh!t free
hosting???
--
Grunff
- Posted by Adrienne on September 2nd, 2003
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Grunff <grunff@ixxa.com> writing
in news:bj2iid$efa40$1@ID-152899.news.uni-berlin.de:
I do it because I have to have somewhere I can show my customers mockup
sites, and I'm not going to go through the expense of having a static IP.
I only do this for ASP sites, for others, I have space on a "real" server
that I can send customers to.
--
Adrienne Boswell
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- Posted by middletree on September 2nd, 2003
I don't see what problem you have with this. Having something to test on is
important, and you can only do so much with your home machine.
"Grunff" <grunff@ixxa.com> wrote in message
news:bj2iid$efa40$1@ID-152899.news.uni-berlin.de...
- Posted by Grunff on September 2nd, 2003
Adrienne wrote:
What???
How about buying some hosting, and either using subdomains (e.g.
http://test1.yourdomain.com), or even just subdirectories
(http://www.yourdomain.com/test1/)?
--
Grunff
- Posted by Grunff on September 2nd, 2003
middletree wrote:
with your > home machine.
[top post corrected]
Yes, of course you need somewhere live to upload your test
stuff, but why does it need to be crappy free hosting? If you're
doing this for a living, presumably you value a/ your time and
b/ the impression you put across to your customers.
Spending a small amount on decent hosting, rather than wasting
time searching for and messing around with free hosting will
save you time and present you in a much better light. Is it
really worth it to save a few pounds?
--
Grunff
- Posted by Adrienne on September 2nd, 2003
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Grunff <grunff@ixxa.com> writing
in news:bj3385$em6q1$1@ID-152899.news.uni-berlin.de:
I have hosting that I pay for, but it's a Unix server. I'm not going to
pay for two hosts. When the client approves the site, it gets moved to a
paid host. If the client does not like the site (I'm not perfect, after
all), then no harm is done, and I'm not out any money.
--
Adrienne Boswell
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- Posted by Grunff on September 2nd, 2003
Adrienne wrote:
That is a truly bizzare attitude.
You say "If the client does not like the site (I'm not perfect,
after all), then no harm is done, and I'm not out any money".
But surely you've spent some time building this site. If you're
using some server side scripting, then you may well have spent a
fair bit of time, no? Is your time worth /nothing/ to you?
Surely if you spent say £50 on asp hosting, and used it over and
over again to demo sites, then that £50 a year is tiny compared
to your time costs - or am I missing something fundamental?
Instead you choose to demo your sites on crap, slow hosting
which may force popups on your clients!!
--
Grunff
- Posted by Jim Ley on September 2nd, 2003
On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 22:52:16 +0100, Grunff <grunff@ixxa.com> wrote:
Well, in the UK, most of the country is covered by some form of
broadband, and site demoing can be done through this at very little
cost increase, a single fixed IP is common, 5 doesn't cost much, and
even without as long as your DHCP lease is reasonable, you can use
dyndns (or even just a short TTL on DNS, as it's only once a month or
so it may change, and you're not demoing sites daily.)
I trusted running my genuine site that was remote from me and running
software that was being demoed at 2 conferences off a home ADSL line,
without too many problems (okay the 1am call I recieved the night I
flew back to the UK having been up for 32 hours and drunk, with Liz
asking WhereTF it was for her talk in the morning was a problem.
That was a hardware failure though, and it's always possible it
would've happened if it was hosted remotely, and a hardware fix for it
to be ready by 9am the next morning would've cost a lot of cash, but
hosting where I was, I just made a couple of calls, and luckily it was
back up at 2:30am.
Absolutely, it doesn't need high performance, high bandwidth, or
decent reliability, it's just for demos to a few clients after all.
Jim.
