Talk:Free web hosting service

message: Why do people keep removing the link to ClickHereFree.com? It's not link spam, ClickHereFree is a listing of Web hosts. If links to other web host directories are allowed, then why isn't this one?
--Daniel15 06:48, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not saying any of this is a killer criterion, but the sum of it does it for me. Plus I tend to be more strict on a page with a subject that basically screams out "put your link spam here". Otherwise it becomes even harder to draw a line. Rl 06:24, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: ClickHereFree.com

message: I'd like to set up a small personal web site that is:
* hosted free
* free of ads
* about 1–2Mb
* ideally on a subdomain rather than a folder URL (i.e. http://mysite.theirsite.com instead of http://theirsite.com/mysite), although that's not so important
Can anyone recommend off the major player(s), if any, in this area of hosting? There are just too many entries in the directory to evaluate all of them.
Thanks for the help.
Ben Arnold 23:26, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Advice

message: Internet service providers are usuallly refered to Internet connection providers. Is it used in hosting context ? So do this article require that category ? --Soft coderTalk 15:57, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Internet service providers

message: "Some free hosts require posting in a forum." Can somebody briefly explain to me why some free hosts require regular forum contributions from members, please? Tomid 17:47, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forum-based free hosting 

message: Most Free Webhosts do shared hosting. So, merging them might be a good idea.
N4l 00:52, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Shared Hosting? 

message: my link keeps getting deleted, but i am linking to what it says i can link to...
--151.198.114.195 (talk) 19:12, 29 November 2007(UTC)
: Your link adds nothing of encyclopedic value to the article, as mentioned under our External Links guidelines, in addition, Wikipedia is not a directory. You may not advertise your service here. --Versageek 19:51, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  wiki classifieds! 

message: IMHO, the dmoz link is misleading.  It is an outdated list of providers, most of which spam their users or smother user pages with ads.  Linking to DMOZ implies some sort of encyclopedic value or utility.   Given that this is an encyclopedia, not an advertisement for web hosts, the link to DMOZ is inappropriate.  24.211.245.174 (talk) 19:17, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Unlike Wikipedia, DMOZ is a web directory specifically designed to categorize and list Internet sites; if you've not already gotten your site listed there, I encourage you to do so -- it's a more appropriate venue for your links than our wikis. DMOZ is a human-edited directory, perhaps your concerns should be directed to them and their editors. thanks--Hu12 (talk) 19:51, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: DMOZ is largely edited by people whose interested are self promotion, which is specifically against wikipedia's rules.   I have several sites listed in DMOZ, and I am an editor, but the politics of DMOZ are awful.   Wikipedia doesn't need to link to DMOZ, people know it exists.   I have no need to "self-promote" or "get linked", I have no commercial interest to do so - despite accusations.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.211.245.174 (talk) 13:28, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

text: DMOZ doesn't test to see if the sites they list actually provide free hosting. Nor whether they spam their users, etc. There are many good free hosting directories that test these things and more - and a casual search will turn them up.  If you are an editor on DMOZ...linking to a DMOZ category that you edit should be considered self promotion, and you should not be doing it.  This means you Hu12.  24.211.245.174 (talk) 14:14, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  dmoz links 

message: It would be very helpful if someone put together a simple comparison of what you can do with Google Page Creator, as opposed to Google Sites.  For instance:
* Do you need to download and install Google Apps to create & edit a Pages website?  A Sites webpage?  As I understand it, "yes" for Sites and "no" for Pages, but I may be wrong.
* Do you need to download and install Google Apps merely to read a Google Sites website?  A Google pages webpage?  As I understand it, no for both, but I may be wrong.
* Google Sites describes itself as a website creation tool for businesses and schools, for example company intranets.  Does this in any way limit its usefulness as a general webpage, available to anyone browsing the world wide web?  (As far as I know, the answer is "no", but I may be wrong.)  
* If we wish, can we make Google Sites, or Google Pages, readable only to those with company/school e-mail addresses?  
* Is Sites meant to be more of wiki (i.e. editable by many or all users), while Pages is designed to be more or a traditional webpage (only editable by the site creator, or someone designated with editing priviliges.) ?
RK (talk) 14:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could we get more info on [[Google Sites]] and [[Google Page Creator]]? 

message: I have an idea: How about a comparison page like Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients? --Vergency (talk) 23:05, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Strangely enough, Comparison of web hosting services was created earlier today. -- zzuuzz (talk) 23:15, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ooh! Thanks for that. I suppose the search feature isn't updated immediately, as I couldn't find that. --Vergency (talk) 23:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: (Note to the reader: that article was deleted, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of web hosting services) Shinobu (talk) 21:22, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comparison page? 

message: Well, this points out that free hosts are worse than paid hosts... Sometimes true, usually not.
It says, these may have blahblahblah limitations, though may not, giving an impression that paid hosts blow others out of the water.
I think this should be deleted or rewriten...
Codster925 (talk) 03:40, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very biased... 

message: I believe that at this time it may be pertinent to allow for some external links to such services in context and provided it gives an overview to the user visiting those locations of the differences in the methods, technology and marketing of those services.
At this time the article in general is rather weak but I am trying to improve it over time by expanding on what I feel were some short points of free web hosting services of which this was one of those points.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.181.17.112 (talk) 06:11, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article needs  verifiable reliable sources to support encyclopedic content, not links to reseller services. se also WP:NOT and Wikipedia is an encyclopedia--Hu12 (talk) 03:49, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Co-branded/Reseller Link Examples