In a bid to keep electricity costs down and with the advent of decently priced raid NAS devices, I am in the process of decommissioning my trusty home server. This meant moving all hosted web sites off and on to hosting elsewhere. For this blog and the tae kwon-do club it was a straightforward transfer to trusty old Supanames (who are pretty good value at £32.88 for two years hosting including a free .co.uk domain… the price hasn’t changed ever and I’ve been using them since 2000). However for the disabled swimming club back in Bedworth I needed a different approach. Although £32.88 for two years isn’t a bad price, domain registration is only between £3-£4 per year on it’s own through 123-reg and I still had (at the time) over 12 months left before renewal was due… so the search for free web hosts was on. The host needed to support PHP, MySQL and CGI scripts, and most importantly run the WordPress blogging framework. My first stop was www.free-space.net who were initially very good, a quick sign up process followed by a site review, then they let you loose with tons of features – everything worked great. Then, 4 weeks ago their server went down. They fixed that problem after 3 weeks but I am still unable to log in to the FTP server to upload files, and the web site content that was uploaded has been lost to the ether. That brings me to stop #2, the current host www.000freehost.com – an equally easy sign up, move my domains DNS to their servers and bingo we have a working site. Phew. I’ll keep you updated on the reliability of the free host because if they still perform well in a year or so I’ll be moving all my hosting across to there.
Oh yes… and this is post #12 for this month, which gives November 2008 the record for the highest number of posts on this blog in a month. Exciting stuff I’m sure. Wake up.
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Speaking of NASes (is that correct for more than one NAS?) Can you use your PS3 as a NAS. Also can u change the hard drive in the PS3? How big is yours?
It’s huuuge
. As far as I know you can’t use the PS3 as a NAS, anything you store on the hard drive is accessible only by the PS3. My PS3 came with a 60GB drive but I upgraded it to a 160GB one for fun. IT’s easy to upgrade.. you just unscrew a panel on the side, pull it out and put the new one in. Bit of advice though, do a full backup of the PS3 to USB drive before you remove the old drive, then when the new one is in you can just do a restore from the USB drive and everything is back as normal.