5) put the actual page on a free host such as Geocities or Tripod, and
just leave a forward pointer on the crippled Mindspring account. With
any luck, a small redirect will never be able to suck up enough
bandwidth to take you over quota.
I looked at all of Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire, and Xoom for a thingy
of mine. The size of it and the silly restrictions by other free
webspace providers made me (drudgingly) pick Xoom, although I would
have liked Tripod from an "image" point of view. (Actually I had it on
Geocities at first, something I have had to regret over and over.
Yuck. Even Xoom has some limits on what kind of files you are allowed
to upload, but if all you have is .html files, no problem. Angelfire's
registration process and terms of use sucked so much I didn't actually
try them.)
The "free, but with a bandwidth quota" thing looks like an extremely
unwise business decision to me. Anybody whose pages actually matter
will be forced to take them elsewhere. If I were them, I'd impose some
kind of banner program instead, like the real free providers do.
(Some people find even that hard to tolerate, but then, if you have a
problem with sponsored free service, you will pretty much by
definition end up paying for yours.)
... Of course, none of the free services are really "cool" by any
meaningful standard. If you don't own your own r4d k00l domain name,
you're supposed to know somebody who does, and who is willing to host
your site and list you among their "special and influential friends".
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