Any reliable free (no adverts), web hosting? Portland Com'
(UK) has gone!!

Hello folks,

I've been operating a free service for my local community (UK), for the last
three years. Using free software (recommended by your good selves, many
thanks), a lot of my free time and free hosting.

But recently I've been having problems uploading to Portland Communications
Ltd. It now seems that they are no longer in business! The new owners
(Intrascape Communications Ltd), are continuing, but are to charge for
sub-domain hosting.

Boy-Oh-Boy has this given me some more work to do!!

Anybody here know of a reliable no adverts free hosting, for my site that
uses about 3MBytes of space.

In much appreciation, Michael.


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hi Michael
i have just the thing for you
the free host i use offers
250 MB of disk space and 100 GB bandwidth. They                         also
have cPanel control panel which is amazing. Moreover, 
there is no advertising on your pages.
  You can register here:
http://www.000webhost.com/?id=16017

oh i am not sure if you use php or not but they have full php support with 
no restrictions.
enjoy






"Michael Bee" <mikereg-1drop_this@firenet.uk.net> wrote in
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> Hello folks,
>
> I've been operating a free service for my local community (UK), for the 
> last
> three years. Using free software (recommended by your good selves, many
> thanks), a lot of my free time and free hosting.
>
> But recently I've been having problems uploading to Portland 
> Communications
> Ltd. It now seems that they are no longer in business! The new owners
> (Intrascape Communications Ltd), are continuing, but are to charge for
> sub-domain hosting.
>
> Boy-Oh-Boy has this given me some more work to do!!
>
> Anybody here know of a reliable no adverts free hosting, for my site that
> uses about 3MBytes of space.
>
> In much appreciation, Michael.
>
>
> -- 
> To Email me, please remove the "drop_this" from my address, thank
you. 

"john smith" <starfish2008@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> hi Michael
> i have just the thing for you
> the free host i use offers
> 250 MB of disk space and 100 GB bandwidth. They 
> also
> have cPanel control panel which is amazing. Moreover, there is no 
> advertising on your pages.
>  You can register here:
> http://www.000webhost.com/?id=16017
>
> oh i am not sure if you use php or not but they have full php support with

> no restrictions.
> enjoy
>
"Michael Bee" <mikereg-1drop_this@firenet.uk.net> wrote in
message
> news:fm50gg$7to$1@news.datemas.de...
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I've been operating a free service for my local community (UK), for the

>> last
>> three years.
-(snip)-
>> Anybody here know of a reliable no adverts free hosting, for my site
that
>> uses about 3MBytes of space.
>>
>> In much appreciation, Michael.
>>
>>
Many thanks to you John Smith, I'll check it out. I don't, as yet use PHP, 
but thanks for the thought.
It's always good to get a recommendation from a host user.

Regards, Michael.

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"Michael Bee" <mikereg-1drop_this@firenet.uk.net> wrote in
message 
news:fm50gg$7to$1@news.datemas.de...
> Hello folks,
>
> I've been operating a free service for my local community (UK), for the 
> last
> three years. Using free software (recommended by your good selves, many
> thanks), a lot of my free time and free hosting.
>
> But recently I've been having problems uploading to Portland 
> Communications
> Ltd. It now seems that they are no longer in business! The new owners
> (Intrascape Communications Ltd), are continuing, but are to charge for
> sub-domain hosting.
>
> Boy-Oh-Boy has this given me some more work to do!!
>
> Anybody here know of a reliable no adverts free hosting, for my site that
> uses about 3MBytes of space.
>
> In much appreciation, Michael.
>


I had exactly the same problem!!.   The only comparible replacement i could 
find at the time was a U.S. one.
awardspace.com.   They are good but I would ideally like to find another 
reliable Uk provider like portland. 

"Mike" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message 
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>
> "Michael Bee" <mikereg-1drop_this@firenet.uk.net> wrote in
message 
> news:fm50gg$7to$1@news.datemas.de...
>> Hello folks,
(snip)
>> But recently I've been having problems uploading to Portland
>> Communications
>> Ltd. It now seems that they are no longer in business! The new owners
>> (Intrascape Communications Ltd), are continuing, but are to charge for
>> sub-domain hosting.
(snip)
>> Anybody here know of a reliable no adverts free hosting, for my site
that
>> uses about 3MBytes of space.
>>
>> In much appreciation, Michael.
>>
> I had exactly the same problem!!.   The only comparible replacement i
> could find at the time was a U.S. one.
> awardspace.com.   They are good but I would ideally like to find another
> reliable Uk provider like portland.
>
Thanks for that mike,

I'll have a look at awardspace.com.
UK based would be perfect but, we mustn't be too unappreciative of our kind
cousins across the pond, now must we ;-)
Just as a matter of interest, how did you redirect traffic from
youroldwebsite.port5.com to your new website, given that we can't upload or
contact Portland? There must be a process here that I know nothing about.

Your thoughts are much appreciated, Michael.
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