Okay... Free URL???

This sounds like a complete scam. Now, let me explain something first before I get accused of making fun of free hosting forever.

I am a web host myself. I am also one of the founding members of HTTP 1.1 but I won't get into that now. (I hate to brag) I will, on occassion now, host people for free. I do, however, have an ulterior motive.

You see, I believe if I can give people an important tool to make a great site, people will link more to them and they will get high pageranks. As a rule, all of my hostees must link to me. Thus, our pagerank also benefits. That is why today, KyleTech has a pagerank of 5.

Now, as to getting free hosting, you must contact server admins whom already do this. But you must do it professionally. I would rather see
Dear Kyle,
I would like to request free hosting from you. I have a site about pokemon and I plan to call it Pokemon Site Example. It should be completed within a few days after opening and movein.

We are currently hosted at Tripod at https://exampleurl.tripod.com and we need a host without all the banner advertisements and pop-ups. I know that the design may be less than perfect but I am willing to learn how to improve my site.

If you would like to talk about this with me, my ICQ number is xxxxxxxx.

Sincerely,
Joe Blow
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than
Dear Klye,

Plzz host me b/c I sawd a friend of mine hostd on ur server.

- Joe
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The differences?
1. Be thourough and concise. Even if you PM'd me here, I'd be more intrigued to read it if it were thourough.
2. Use correct grammar and punctuation. I know that sometimes we can all slip, and I will accept a couple of mistakes, but good lord, don't be so blatent!
3. Explain your current situation and why you wish to leave your current host.
4. Provide a follow up. I love IM and I would be more than happy to interview the first person for hosting.

To the second person's friend, don't let them do this kinda thing to me.

Just some words of wisdom. ^_^
 
Where did all that come from? O.o
But saul took one of the domains/hosting. His seems to be all right, but I still don't trust it. I just have a gut feeling, I guess... =/
 
Hey..if you're talking about this..I don't trust this "FREE Host & Domain".
It seems like a scam because he talks about 1 or 2 page sites & his "SITE"
(More like "Page".) has no style.
(I say it's a scam, you people..)
 
I have to agree with Punk Skater, looks like a scam as there is little information about the hosting on the page I.E. server, information about uptime, TOS, etc.
 
I don't see where it can hurt you to try it, just make sure you have everything backed up somewhere and a host to fall back on should they go down~
 
I wouldn't trust a "free domain" offer. I don't give anyone a free domain unless I liked them or it'd be a good investment idea.
 
hmmm well this maybe something to watch and see what happens.. check out www.forport.com since thats a somewhat related site that's using this freebie thing.
 
Forport City is one of my affiliates =3

Anyways, looks like there isn't anymore domains available anyways -.-;;
 
It is not a scam I took it for my RPG, I won't link cause my RPG is a forum but this is how it works: he has the domain already set up, ask himfor it and you get Cpanel access, he gives you the pass and user so it seems to be fine, I'll be the under civer tester xD lol I thought I might take a quick chance and try it, at first I thought it was a scam but so far it's 0.o

so you dont need to give this guy any information AT ALL although I'm probably gonna have to make a backuop just in case, who knows maybe he wants to get a bunch o' sites and then hack em xD lol, so far that hasn't happened
 
saul said:
It is not a scam I took it for my RPG, I won't link cause my RPG is a forum but this is how it works: he has the domain already set up, ask himfor it and you get Cpanel access, he gives you the pass and user so it seems to be fine, I'll be the under civer tester xD lol I thought I might take a quick chance and try it, at first I thought it was a scam but so far it's 0.o

so you dont need to give this guy any information AT ALL although I'm probably gonna have to make a backuop just in case, who knows maybe he wants to get a bunch o' sites and then hack em xD lol, so far that hasn't happened
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Just be careful then, remember the VGFF scandal of a few years back~
 
If you go to Lelola and read their site history you'll see the VGFF thing. I'm surprised you don't know about it - maybe you're too young XD
 
I've been lurking around the web trying to build sites since '01, and never once until just now have I heard of the VGFF scandal. oO; Link?
 
o_O Here, from the LELOLA site history~

Pan-chan of LELOLA said:
Later in the LELOLA.com years, James offered me another domain. He needed someone to run a website called VGFF.net (*shrugs* I think it stood for "Video Game Fighting Force"). It was a site that hosted anime and teen related websites. The person who was running it quit, and James wanted to know if I wanted to run it for him. I agreed.

I always thought people were kind. I thought James wanted me to run the site out of the goodness of his heart. It never occurred to me he was just in it for the money. If I had only known what I know now.

Anyway, so little naive me started to run VGFF.net and hosting other people's websites. I thought I was doing them a favor by getting them off free servers.

At this time, LELOLA also had quite a few hostees. I was hosting sites off LELOLA domain's. I also became aware of the network of sites James "run".

Everything was going great. LELOLA was blossoming, and all my hostees were too.

And then the Internet economy collapsed.

At the time, I was too young to fully realize what that meant, but I had my own version of a wake up call soon after.

On Thursday, March 1, 2001, James pulled the plug on VGFF, my hostees, and most sites on the network. In less than twenty-four hours, the network of well over fifty sites was reduced to two.

I felt horrible. Here were my hostees putting there trust in me, and I found myself the bad guy. By hosting their sites, I somehow destroyed them. I wanted to cry, but I couldn't. I was incredibly stressed at the period of time. There were other things going on at school and in my personal life, and the hostee disaster was like the nail in the coffin. I snapped.

I remember it vaguely. My friend, Miaka, knew what was going on, but no one else did. I think I scared a lot of my classmates that day. I think it happened during a science quiz. I ran out of class and hid in a stairwell. One of the boys from my class followed me out. He must have been worried about me. He tried to comfort me, but failed. He couldn't do a thing. I've never wanted to cry more in my entire life, but I couldn't. I did, however, pop a blood vessel in my eye, so I guess you could say I was crying blood. How fitting.

I told my hostees I would try to get their backup files for them. And I did try. Repeatedly. I failed in the end, but at least I tried.

Anyway, since I was "profitable", I survived. The only other site that survived was my brother Raidix's site: DigiExperience.com
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XD Well, what do you think happens to my site all the time? Shawn XD *has moved to Greg, is waiting for nameserver update*
 
I emailed teh guy about no domains being available and he just asked me what I wanted my site to be about 0.o;;

Seemed nice enough. Of course looks can be decieving...>>;
 
*giggle* Well, see what happens then. Lots of people seem nice enough at first. Still, he seems like a decent bloke. Make sure you ask him what happens to the domain if something happens to his hosting, because if you lose control of the domain you'll lose all your visitors as well.
 
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