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[persephone_kore]

Anybody reading this know much about http://www.110mb.com ? I suppose if I want to mess around with trying to design a website for myself, I should probably start with Geocities; if I get serious, I should pay for hosting--but still, 110MB looks interesting. It also looks a little too good to be

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[uscathena]

I don't know anything about that particular site, but don't go with geocities. It's one of the worst. You can give that one a try, methinks. A lot of other host have site copiers, so if it turns out to be crap you can go to another host and quickly move your site.

[persephone_kore]

Well, I have a Yahoo account, so I automatically get a Geocities one, is the thing, and without having to worry about a new account.

I waffle about signing up for new accounts because I'm not sure what to do about usernames. I'm Persephone_Kore for most fannish things, but I'm Schefflera on a couple and kind of wish I'd started out with that one, but I'm not sure I could switch effectively. On the other hand, apparently nobody can spell it for some reason....

[uscathena]

Well, the thing is, many of the geocities fan sites I find myself at are poorly organized (which may be the fault of the owner), swimming with ads, and more than half the time out of bandwidth and down (the biggest problem).

I use 50megs. It isn't perfect - lots of ads (all of which can be blocked with firefox, though). It has 50 MBs of space, which I find more than enough to post fics on, but it doesn't allow you to host things like zips, just pictures and html. You have to be a paying customer to use things like ftp, but I find that the file uploader works well enough. It has an html editor so you don't have to re-upload a file every time you want to change some text. If you use things like frontpage it should work, I write my stuff by hand, so I don't know.

I like that it has my site name first on the address, which I'm pretty sure geocities doesn't do. http://www.uscathena.i8.com/ <- if you're curious as to what I managed to do.

[persephone_kore]

Poorly organized is, I believe, the fault of the owner. The Geocities ads are definitely unfortunate and I suspect they have been getting worse.

I've visited your site. It does look very nice!

I'm slightly wary of 110MB on the grounds that it welcomes anything that isn't illegal including, explicitly, pornographic sites--but does not mention its position on whether, say, fanfic is legal. I would imagine that they're not going to throw a fit over fanfic as long as the copyright owner doesn't throw anything at them, and to the best of my knowledge none of my fanfic is likely to produce fits from the owners, but I would be somewhat miffed if my site got kicked off by a host that allows porn.

Also, I'd really like to know how they're making money.

[kaesa]

I don't know about Geocities, but I happen to be fond of Googlepages, if for some reason Geocities doesn't work.

It does look like this host has a lot of potential features (which you may or may not use), but I am kind of automatically suspicious of any website that says OMG SERIOUSLY IT'S THAT AWESOME! and condescends to explain, in small words, about "technical mumbo jumbo." Then, I might just be paranoid.

[persephone_kore]

Googlepages would be an option, and I do already have gmail accounts and stuff, but... unless they have acquired the feature since I last looked, they lack some features I regard (perhaps erroneously) as sort of basic, such as folders.

[kaesa]

I had wondered about that for a while, and then figured as long as it was all organized in my head, it didn't matter that much. Then, I'm one of those people who fixes everything with duct tape, paper clips, and string, so.

[persephone_kore]

*grin* Nothing wrong with that. It's just that I'm thinking of using it for fic and suspect I would want to make folders at least for separate fandoms, and perhaps for multi-chapter stories. And if I want to do... blast, I've forgotten the terms... the kind of intra-site links where you leave off the domain name and whatever else the two pages have in common, then switching between folders and not would tend to muck things up.