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ok i will start a free NO AD web hosting company.... i am about 50% in the process:

it has:
1.46 gig
512 meg ram
bla bla bla

it will offer:
1 mysql database
php, perl, asp
500 Megs
1 Gig traffic / month

the problem comes to when we talk about domain names:
i am a student trying to offer other people better learning environment without the fees....

the domain will be hxxp://websitename/nickname/
i will not be able to host sub domains / domains - so you would need to point them to that type of website.

Furthermore i have one of those free domain name things from dyndns. So the server has been up for about a week and now i am working out some signup scripts and so on....

My question is:
Do you guys think there might be some general interest -- in the way it is???

thanks

I think small sites might use it instead of using Netfirms, but you won't find any good sites because:
a. you don't offer domain/subdomain DNS.
b. you will probably start charging soon, and they'll have many links to the URL in your server.
c. 1gb/month
d. dyndns -> your connection (DSL, cable?) -> very slow.

so the domain and subdomain is nothing just point

i will never charge i have no reason...

1 gig is enough umless you want some serious stuff and i think that is out of my reach

and its cable(512/512) its a partial t1

so i think i can handle some users that are just starting a website or something close to there

That's what I meant. One of the problems is that they'll probably leave you when they start getting busy (any simple UBB needs atleast 2gb bandwidth ) and then the link to their site on your domain won't work anymore...

so do you think i should even try to get it up... because it seems like you are the only one that responds??

I think if ya wanna do it, do it. Can't hurt and certainly people would use it instead of netfirms like LK said.

yea but if i spend all this time into setting everything up and stuff and then once it is all operational i get no people to come i will think like i wasted my time to do nothing of any importance you know what i mean?

so that is why i am posting this here to see the interest to see if it is worth it to go forward with the intended plan because i still need to do alot of coding till its all operational..

and so far my "happyness" for providing free web hosting has been dwindled

-lates hope more interest arises.