Free hosting for static websites

#1

Post by dpieri » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 3:45 PM UTC

Free hosting for static websites
coralrift.com

Re: Free hosting for static websites

#2

Post by jefe78 » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 3:52 PM UTC

This is pretty impressive. It will be nice to see a way of adding your own domains though.

The video was a little hard to see though, but the simplicity of the process probably negates that fact.

Re: Free hosting for static websites

#3

Post by dpieri » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 3:55 PM UTC

jefe78 wrote: post #2

This is pretty impressive. It will be nice to see a way of adding your own domains though. The video was a little hard to see though, but the simplicity of the process probably negates that fact.

The primary market for this are people who glaze over when you start talking about DNS Servers or CNAME. But that is definitely something that would be cool to add.

Re: Free hosting for static websites

#4

Post by justinchen » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 3:57 PM UTC

dpieri wrote: post #3

jefe78 wrote: post #2

This is pretty impressive. It will be nice to see a way of adding your own domains though. The video was a little hard to see though, but the simplicity of the process probably negates that fact.

The primary market for this are people who glaze over when you start talking about DNS Servers or CNAME. But that is definitely something that would be cool to add.

Agreed. Sort of like huge number blogger.com users who just use the blogspot.com domain for their blog even though the CNAME option is there. CNAM-ing seems like an easy advanced feature to add later.

Re: Free hosting for static websites

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Post by jefe78 » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 3:58 PM UTC

dpieri wrote: post #3

jefe78 wrote: post #2

This is pretty impressive. It will be nice to see a way of adding your own domains though. The video was a little hard to see though, but the simplicity of the process probably negates that fact.

The primary market for this are people who glaze over when you start talking about DNS Servers or CNAME. But that is definitely something that would be cool to add.

I agree, but it might then be nice to offer several alternative TLDs perhaps? Just a thought!

Re: Free hosting for static websites

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Post by kylemaxwell » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 4:02 PM UTC

You know, my 7yo has been asking for me to let her create a web page for some idea she has about crime reduction. Might be a decent test case.

Also, GeoCities 2.0, c/d?

Re: Free hosting for static websites

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Post by jawns » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 4:06 PM UTC

CoralRift and the sites it is hosting are hosted by Dreamhost.

As a fellow Dreamhost customer, I'd be curious to know how it is handling the subdomain creation stuff ... Dreamhost API?

Re: Free hosting for static websites

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Post by dchest » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 4:10 PM UTC

jawns wrote: post #7

CoralRift and the sites it is hosting are hosted by Dreamhost. As a fellow Dreamhost customer, I'd be curious to know how it is handling the subdomain creation stuff ... Dreamhost API?

If it's the case, then no "unlimited" bandwidth/disk storage for them:

Here are some specific examples of things not allowed:

Making your account resources available (whether for free or pay) to the general public.

http://www.dreamhost.com/unlimited.html

Re: Free hosting for static websites

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Post by paxswill » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 4:11 PM UTC

jawns wrote: post #7

CoralRift and the sites it is hosting are hosted by Dreamhost. As a fellow Dreamhost customer, I'd be curious to know how it is handling the subdomain creation stuff ... Dreamhost API?

I would guess they have a VPS. A VPS with Dreamhost allows you to do wildcard DNS, so I'm guessing they're doing something along those lines.

Re: Free hosting for static websites

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Post by dpieri » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 4:13 PM UTC

paxswill wrote: post #9

jawns wrote: post #7

CoralRift and the sites it is hosting are hosted by Dreamhost. As a fellow Dreamhost customer, I'd be curious to know how it is handling the subdomain creation stuff ... Dreamhost API?

I would guess they have a VPS. A VPS with Dreamhost allows you to do wildcard DNS, so I'm guessing they're doing something along those lines.

Yes, we have a VPS with root access