Free webspace?

[GeneralZod]

Anyone got any recommendations for free webspace? I'm looking for a site to host images from an amateur sports club.

The existing site keeps hitting storage capacity restrictions.

The amount of downloads will not be that great.

 

[miselemeas]

www.eircom.net - when you register for a free email address they provide you will 20 MB of free webspace - no banner ads

http://www.mysite.com/free/
They give you 50 MB disk space -- stores about 500 photos!
1 GB Monthly bandwidth
Cool themes and site building templates
Blogging tools
File Manager (No FTP)
However you will have to accept Banner ads on your site

 

[anseo]

awardspace.com

FREE Hosting Plan

€0 ($ 0,00)
PER MONTH
200MB Disk Space
5GB Monthly Traffic
2 Domains Hosting
5 Subdomains
Free DNS Server
PHP, Perl/CGI-BIN
1 MySQL Database
FTP/FrontPage Access
5 POP3/IMAP E-mails
FREE Account Setup
Web-based File Manager

 

[colm]

Usually that sort of free Package insists on Banner Ads or Pop Ups.PM the Full Specs you need & I will sort out hosting for you.

 

[anseo]

no banners or anything like that on awardspace.

Lots of info on free hosting here:
http://freehosting1.net/

 

[GeneralZod]

Thanks for the suggestions and offer of webspace.

I've decided to try http://hostwq.net/.

 

[colm]

Good luck with it...

 

[bacchus]

Thanks for the suggestions and offer of webspace.
I've decided to try http://hostwq.net/.

I am currently looking for free webspace, so was wondering how you are getting on with these guys?

 

[GeneralZod]

Never really got off the ground. The free service was very slow. Can't recommend them.

 

[Fintan]

If its just for photos why not use flickr or picasa? Both offer free image hosting and have decent storage that can be upgraded easily for a small fee

 

[boskonay]

You really get what you pay for with free hosting - and the providers are not as plentiful as they were a few years back (perhaps as they realised providing hosting actually costs a lot of money to do well)

 

[bacchus]

The reason i am looking for free hosting is because i intend to use the space for a simple web, to promote some personal fund raising activities (not organised stuff with high overhead) that i have planned for 2008 onwards and would like to accept Paypal payment (though their fee is a bit high). This is pure "leisure" and not a business in any way.
Photos only hosting as suggested above is unfortunately too restrictive for what i want to do.

As i am sure i will not raise millions, any overhead encountered will go against amount of money reaching the charities.
While i intend to cover all costs (travel, accomodation, entry fees, etc..) myself, i still want to get the best return i can get, hence free or cheap and cheerfull hosting.

If i am not mistaken, the cheapest non-free hosting is about €35 per year and a ".com" for about €8 per year. Not the end of the world if i have to pay this from my own pocket, but would rather give it to charity.

Is that correct?

 

[Fintan]

Digiweb have hosting packages starting at 20 euros.

Couple of other options:
1) Approach one of the major hosting companies explaining your charity and asked if they would do you a deal, in return for some free publicity?

2) You could also get cheap hosting package for the website, but then store the pictures on Picasa. That way the large files / bandwidth aspects are being dealt with for free, yet you have the benefit of the website

3) Register a domain name and the host it with google on Google Apps [broken link removed]

4) Alternatively set up a blogger.com account and set up a blog, thats free.

 

[boskonay]

We (www.register365.com) sponsor lots of lots of charities, everything from the huge really well known to the very small - drop me a line with the details, am sure we can help you out.