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Have you at freeola ever considered offeing a paid for service as well as the freebie???
With al this talk of not being able to upload via ADSL connections and not having the monthly pay packages for dial-ups, I think you might want to consider a paid for service for hosting???
Simpy it would be a case of £5 a month or something for the standard unlimited Webspace/E-mail and all the stuff you have at present, but with the added bonus of not being restricted to your dial-up, and alowwing use with ADSL or monthly dial-up packages to take advantage of the great service you offer.
Also, you could consider highr packages, with MySQL and all, maybe even Pre-installed Scripts, Secure Servers, Sub-Domains, the ability to let other people have an E-mail address with our Domains, without giving them our master usernames/password etc..
... what do ya' think???
With al this talk of not being able to upload via ADSL connections and not having the monthly pay packages for dial-ups, I think you might want to consider a paid for service for hosting???
Simpy it would be a case of £5 a month or something for the standard unlimited Webspace/E-mail and all the stuff you have at present, but with the added bonus of not being restricted to your dial-up, and alowwing use with ADSL or monthly dial-up packages to take advantage of the great service you offer.
Also, you could consider highr packages, with MySQL and all, maybe even Pre-installed Scripts, Secure Servers, Sub-Domains, the ability to let other people have an E-mail address with our Domains, without giving them our master usernames/password etc..
... what do ya' think???
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There will most likley be a pay for another 50 meg option or something like that. The details arn't finalised yet.
Oh, and it kinda sounds like you've given up on Monthly Dial-up plans (or put them back), is that correct???
Fair enough reasons for the limits on ADSL :o).
Though if your site is big enough and one with regular updates and archives(Say BBC News for example) then this would take up a lot more space.
Would you allow the limit to be increased for particular users if the need came about .... for good reasons that is??
Though if your site is big enough and one with regular updates and archives(Say BBC News for example) then this would take up a lot more space.
Would you allow the limit to be increased for particular users if the need came about .... for good reasons that is??
Better to limit web space then bandwidth. With bandwidth limited your whole site would run slow, but with web space you just won't be able to upload a huge file site. Why the need for more then 100 meg anyway?
never limit web space. just limit bandwidth.
ADSL got put back a few weeks by some other projects but should be here in the next month or so if we stick to the new dead line.
As for limiting web space there is a reason. The problem is that if people can upload an unlimited ammount of data at fast rates they will start hosting huge movie/download sites which will kill the servers. Also people would upload computer backups, it might sound strange but i'd do it. Just go on holiday and leave my machine uploading a few gigs of stuff I don't wanna lose. With just a few people doing this we would run out of disk space very quickly. The current system works because no one can be bothered to wait for years to upload gigs over a modem. But as I said the limit would be high enough so you can put up a site with tuns of pages and pics and even a few movies and flash files, but small enough so that no one tries to run a major download site from us.
As for limiting web space there is a reason. The problem is that if people can upload an unlimited ammount of data at fast rates they will start hosting huge movie/download sites which will kill the servers. Also people would upload computer backups, it might sound strange but i'd do it. Just go on holiday and leave my machine uploading a few gigs of stuff I don't wanna lose. With just a few people doing this we would run out of disk space very quickly. The current system works because no one can be bothered to wait for years to upload gigs over a modem. But as I said the limit would be high enough so you can put up a site with tuns of pages and pics and even a few movies and flash files, but small enough so that no one tries to run a major download site from us.
Bob wrote: We are also going to be offering our own ADSL service soon.
How soon??? Hybrid said you'd delayed it for a while. Also, is it stil gonna be £29.99 a month? As Pipex are being kinda crap at the moment ... I may tell them where to go if yours comes along soon for £25 a month :o)
How soon??? Hybrid said you'd delayed it for a while. Also, is it stil gonna be £29.99 a month? As Pipex are being kinda crap at the moment ... I may tell them where to go if yours comes along soon for £25 a month :o)
unknown kernel wrote:
> it is now very frustrating having to switch off broadband so I can check
> email or upload stuff.
You shouldn't have to switch off broadband to send or collect e-mail.
I have an NTL cable connection, and pick up my e-mail through that from Freeola using POP3.
When sending e-mail, it simply goes out through my NTL account, but with my wookieemonster.com domain set as the return address.
I do still have to upload via analogue modem, which is a real pain in the butt, but e-mail isn't an issue.
> it is now very frustrating having to switch off broadband so I can check
> email or upload stuff.
You shouldn't have to switch off broadband to send or collect e-mail.
I have an NTL cable connection, and pick up my e-mail through that from Freeola using POP3.
When sending e-mail, it simply goes out through my NTL account, but with my wookieemonster.com domain set as the return address.
I do still have to upload via analogue modem, which is a real pain in the butt, but e-mail isn't an issue.
You can, but this breaks the Freeola Rules.... meaning a possible shutdown of your site, and your account to be closed. So don't do it this way.
You do realise you can get CGI scripts to upload files! So you can use ADSL etc
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