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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2002 8:57 am (22 years, 2 months ago)

Does anyone know of any good hosts based on the UK(except f2s)?
Mainly because as a student I haven't either visa or mastercard(and I can't seem to find paypal at a good time) and I only got a switch card.
What I'm lookin for is basically php4, 20MB and 5MB mysql

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2002 10:22 am (22 years, 2 months ago)

I'm from the UK, And I offer Free Hosting with all the features you want, PHP4, mySQL etc Smile

Why not read my thread at http://forums.4webhelp.net/viewtopic.php?t=285

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2002 12:08 pm (22 years, 2 months ago)

there was a post on my MB quite a long time ago about this host, don't know if it's still available tho OR if the 'terms of use' are still the same.

Junior WebHelper Joined: 12 Jan 2002 Posts: 9

Parlez-vous francais ? :-)

If so, here is the free solution:
http://www.free.fr/

I am from Germany, and I succeeded to get a free account - a postal letter is sent to the account owner with a registration code, so if they sent it to Germany, I assume that they sent it to all EU countries.
http://hemmerling.free.fr/

Adless free webspace with PHP, MySql, FTP upload,..

A little warning: Free.Fr is an ISP. According to the license agreement, *maybe* the account expires if you don´t do a far call and login by Free.Fr ISP services by an analog modem, at least once each 6 months.

I succeeded to login by analog modem (but not by ISDN !) from Germany, no problems. The costs for such a call are affordable, as you must just call a standard local phone number (no expensive numbers like 0900-, 0190-,..).

So remember, if you got a DSL or cable modem, you need to use an old analog modem once each 6 months to keep your account with Free.Fr.
:-)

Team Member Joined: 09 Jan 2002 Posts: 147 Location: UK

The UK company I recommend is http://www.xcalibre.co.uk who I've found to be fantastic. Support is pretty fast, and they are cheap for what you get.

WebHelper Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 69 Location: Ireland

I wouldn't go for free.fr, as I've heard some bad stories about their reliability. Their database is quite bad, and for a while PHP disappeared!

uklinux.net is also an ISP, but they are quite good. Just sign up for a (free??) hosting account and you get the webspace.

Garth Farley

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Also take a look at http://www.34sp.com/

Junior WebHelper Joined: 12 Jan 2002 Posts: 9

http://www.34sp.com/ = 400 MB traffic / month free !

So the SAME limit as with Portland ! :-(

Btw, I just failed to sign free webspace accounts at
http://coolfreepages.com/
http://www.iwebland.com/
, due to CGI error at the end of the registration proces!

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Since when is 100mb equal to 400mb?

Also, 400mb is fine for people who don't use much bandwidth (personal sites for example).

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

death2all wrote:

Does anyone know of any good hosts based on the UK(except f2s)?
Mainly because as a student I haven't either visa or mastercard(and I can't seem to find paypal at a good time) and I only got a switch card.
What I'm lookin for is basically php4, 20MB and 5MB mysql

I had a similar situation to you, although if you can get your hands on a Visa Electron card from Barclays, You'll be able to use the card abroad, which will widen your choice a bit but not in this country (Really, Really Strange I know!) but thats what I done and can order from anyone outside the uk now Smile

Thus I have a Natwest Solo Switch card and a Barclays Visa Electron, between them you can get anything worldwide Smile

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2002 9:32 pm (22 years, 2 months ago)

Try www.easily.co.uk they take switch or cheques, not as cheap as i guess a student would like Exclamation

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2002 12:13 pm (22 years, 1 month ago)

Thanks to everyone, I checked the available options and settled with 34sp which seem rather good and replie within the day to any of my queries