Hey all,

I've been wanting to post this topic for absolutely ages but you apparently have to be hosted to post here... which I only get two days ago.

This topic basically tells you the exact reason I came to Trap17, by talking about my two previous hosts and why I left them. I would advise that if you're with these hosts then LEAVE THEM NOW! Unless you want your sites to be totally unpopular like mine...

Ok, one day I came up with this radical idea after playing a game on the internet and listening to the comments people were giving. A lot of people where saying negative comments, mainly about lack of choice or underuse of characters. I won't go in to all the detail but basically I came up with this idea for a cool website. After making a basic framework on the computer I showed my ideas to some friends. Realising the sites' potential I decided to start putting it on the web.

Host 1: Wanadoo FTP My Site. My score: 5/10 (average)

I wanted to get the site up as soon as I could but I didn't want to have to pay more than I could afford. I have an Internet connection with Wanadoo and after exploring their site I thought I'd found the answer. Unfortunately I thought wrong.

Wanadoo FTP My Site is an FTP Webhost that is free for all Wanadoo customers. It gives a fair deal of space (30MB per site, max 150MB) and also supports downloads, unlimited subdomains and uploads of other webpages and zip files. However, i found later that there were two big problems. The first was the site URL: although my site was popular at the start, not many people could find it and even fewer people wanted to have to type in a stupidly long adress such as:

http://blahblahblah.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/index.html

The second thing was that it was to restricted. You could only use files that are HTML- or Zip- Related, pictures, or files that can be downloaded. So you could use files with .txt, .exe, .zip, .htm or .html extensions, and pictures, but you couldn't use ones like .php, .phtml, .htacess, etc. This proved to be too restrictive, as I couldn't change my sites actual layout or add things like forums. And since I didn't want to use other hosts like "Free Forum hosting" websites, I decided to look elsewhere. I still kept my site on WFMS for a short while, though, just in case I didn't find what I was looking for.

Host 2: cjb.net My score: <0/10 (Below 0, ie. BAD!)

At first I was really just looking for a way to shorten the URL of the site I already had with the aforementioned host. But I was recommended to the site by a friend (whoever that was ). They did free web hosting and also the URL Masking I was looking for. I tried using their hosting first, but when I found out that they didn't support subdomains, I was immediately bummed. All my images where kept in an "images" subdomain and I wasn't going to put those on the main site. What is more, if I remember correctly they limited you to 50 pages on the website. Useless! Immediately I removed my site with them.

Remebering about the URL masking they offered though, I decide to change the URL of my old site to a .cjb.net one. In return they put a small (roughly half a centimetre) ad ticker on the top of each page. As it was small and not that noticable, I ignored it. But then they - without any notice - started using pop-up advertising. (Most of it was pop-under, but still...) This annoyed so many members that when I finally realised what they had done, I had lost them all. I was like, "this blows", and I deleted all the emails I have from them. I mean, who'd pay £5. A MONTH just to get the ads to stop!?! I now wait for the account to expire so I don't have to use them again.

After these episodes, I decide to do a thourough search of the web for some decent free web hosting that satisfied my needs and was simple enough to use. And I am glad to say, I found it. Here I am, at Trap17, the only web host that has not only fulfilled my needs, it has done so much more. If I gave you guys a rating, it would have to be >10/10 (More than 10/10), or to put it simply, THE BEST *darn* SERVICE EVER TO EXIST ON THE WEB! I rarely give out 10/10s, but this service, and the people who run it, deserve much more than 10/10.

I love this service and I don't think I'll ever leave it. Thank you for running such an excellent service. If I was your boss I'd give you all double promotions.

Feel free to quote me on this post, and Cheers Trap17!

cjb.net is better as a way to shorten your domain, not as a web service i thnk its been like 8-9 years since i had my cjb account, wonder if i can get back into it.

on the other yeah that is pretty long.

Yeah, ever since I found Trap17, I'm not living with the constant fear of bad service. Besides the awesome, and useful features it has, the community is fun to interact with. Well, like some anonymous guy before me said...
"Veni, Vedi, Velcro"
"I came, I saw, I stuck with it."
I think that's enough to describe what will happen when you join Trap17 and see its features and services!

! i just know the cjb.net,and i just use them for some weeks,and i used trap17 for 1 year,so my choice is so definetly,and you see,the trap17 is very nice,but i'm not stoping searhing new host.since then,i found free-webhost.net 's forum will find so lots of good free host providers,but i don't suggested that searching for the webhost from searching enginne.

awwe! I remember using cjb.net's when I was about 10 XD I didn't understand the hosting thing though, it didn't really look easy..That was later years though.

The wannadoo(use to be freeserve) and other isp providers who give web space is mainly for things like images for other families to see.. THey are not an ideal host for an actual website for the world wide web!!!! It's only like personal...if you understand. That's why the URL doesn't need to be short and easy =]

I use to be hosted with web1000 which was excellent!! Until they added friggin adverts!

Well let's see...before I got hosted here at Trap I've been to geocities(my first site is I think still out there), moonfruit(cool-sounding webhost but not free anymore), freewebs.com(no PHP support and 1 file-at-a-time upload), eof.httpserve.com(not available anymore), feewebhosting and I've also used cjb.net to cloak the domain. Nothing beats trap17 ofcourse. No other site offers excellent packages and PHP + MySQL support that's no BS and free. I have to always post in the forums though, not very easy since college(among other things) is keeping me busy. But hey you can't have everything.

I remember using wanadoo. Didn't take me long to figure out how you could remove the intruding frame they put at the top of each page!

Heh, it (my site) still exists. Guess that's the only good thing about that host, no inactivity limit!

I don't really know much about the wanadoo service I've never used that, but I do know that of the services I've used (including the usual things that newbies try geocities and the lycos thing a little help here (Tripod, I had to look its name up I must have been trying to repress the memory), freewebs (they were actually not terrible, but don't come close to Trap17) and a few I can't remeber the names of thats how bad they were any way that was when I was about 12 and didn't really care. I didn't know cjb.net did hosting I used there url forwarding services. While Trap17's hosting is great (perhaps the best web host ever, I wouldn't know I haven't used every web host ever I know its the best that I've used though) to get the full view of the great services here you have to look at the whole package that is the hosting and the community, now thats a combination that these other hosts cannot even comprehend coming close to. If you want a good laugh.