300 Meg, Unlimited Bandwidth, no pop-ups...

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 2:32 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by MrVainSCL.

Surely interesting FREE webhoster... just check it out
http://drymen.com/hosting/

PIII450, 256MB Ram, 80GB HD + 6,4 GB, RivaTNT, DirectX8.1, SB AWE64, Win2000 + all Updates...

greetz
MrVainSCL! aka Thorsten

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 2:41 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Leigh.

I saw this on another forum, but it just seems too good to be true. Surely?

Leigh.

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 4:07 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by MrVainSCL.

yes, i was very wondered too..
but whats wrong to take a closer look and read all the terms before?

PIII450, 256MB Ram, 80GB HD + 6,4 GB, RivaTNT, DirectX8.1, SB AWE64, Win2000 + all Updates...

greetz
MrVainSCL! aka Thorsten

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 10:18 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by pusztry.

Has anybody tried this? It seems way to good to be true! they don't even seem to have any terms and conditions.
-Ryan
RJP Computing

- Ryan

WinXP, PIII 800 MHz, 512MB RAM, SB Live 5.1, NVidia TNT 2 Ultra

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:11 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

> Has anybody tried this? It seems way to good to be true!

I just signed up to see how it goes... I was a bit hesitant at first,
thinking it was an e-mail harvester for spam, but it seems real.

An interesting note is that my current web hosts, ProHosting, are no
longer showing banner ads on my site, even though I haven't paid for
them to be removed this year. Maybe this is due to competition from
these new bannerless sites? Who knows.

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:45 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by MrVainSCL.

Cool.
Thx for your report PB..

PIII450, 256MB Ram, 80GB HD + 6,4 GB, RivaTNT, DirectX8.1, SB AWE64, Win2000 + all Updates...

greetz
MrVainSCL! aka Thorsten

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 1:07 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by tinman.

A bit of poking around seems to indicate that their site is hosted at http://www.freeola.net. At least, their nameservers are on freeola.net, so I'm guessing their site is there too.

Unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth does not exist. Imagine what would happen if you suddenly uploaded 20Gb of stuff and had Gb of transfer per day.

I can imagine this being like the "unlimited" internet access that so many of the UK ISP's provide. If you use it more than they can afford to give away, they kick you off. Especially since you are not dealing directly with the hosting company, but a reseller, who are at the mercy of the real hosts.

--
It's not minimalist - I'm increasing efficiency by reducing input effort.
(Win98first ed. + SP1, PB3.40)

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 3:09 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by pusztry.

>Unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth does not exist. Imagine what would happen if you >suddenly uploaded 20Gb of stuff and had Gb of transfer per day.

Tinman,
They do limit you to 300MB for your site and unlimited bandwidth. But what I don't get is how would they make ANY money at all. There bussiness model can't possible last for a long time.

PB,
Thanks for the udate let us know how it is going. I was wondering about there speed.

-Ryan
RJP Computing

- Ryan

WinXP, PIII 800 MHz, 512MB RAM, SB Live 5.1, NVidia TNT 2 Ultra

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 10:23 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

Tinman wrote: "Unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth does not exist."

True. They appear to be a small company with naive ideas about web
hosting. I reckon they'll stop the service in the near future.

Pusztry wrote: "let us know how it is going"

Well, I don't seem to be able to upload any big files. I've tried
three times today to upload a 2 MB file and it keeps failing, and
looking at the site shows that the upload didn't succeed. Maybe
they have a file size limit? If so, that would explain why they're
free: 300 MB of space but only 1 MB per file size?

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 4:18 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by tinman.

If you look at the freeola site, they are the ones who give you unlimited space, and one of them (can't remember which) claims unlimited file sizes.

--
It's not minimalist - I'm increasing efficiency by reducing input effort.
(Win98first ed. + SP1, PB3.40)

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Wed Jan 08, 2003 4:47 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

> what I don't get is how would they make ANY money at all.
> There bussiness model can't possible last for a long time.

You're right, pusztry: My hosted site has gone 404, as has their
hosting offer page.

Seems it was too good to be true.

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Thu Jan 09, 2003 3:10 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by tranquil.

Thats shown on the website:

Website Update
Hosting Has fallen apart - The master database got corrupted and the back-up server failed! Drymen.com's offer has been taken offline. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Tranquilizer/ Secretly!
http://www.secretly.de
Registred PureBasic User
System: Windows 2000 Server, 512 MB Ram, GeForce4200 TI 128 MB DDR, Hercules Theater 6.1 DTS Sound
System 2: Mobile Pentium 4 2.4GHz 512 MB DDR GeForce4 420-32, Windows XP Home

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Fri Jan 10, 2003 11:43 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by TheBeck.

Wow, didn't think they would disappear that fast...

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Fri Jan 10, 2003 1:06 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Manolo.

Originally posted by TheBeck

Wow, didn't think they would disappear that fast...

Haha, http://drymen.com/hosting/ is missing.

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Mon Jan 20, 2003 11:33 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by DemonHell.

Originally posted by PB

An interesting note is that my current web hosts, ProHosting, are no
longer showing banner ads on my site, even though I haven't paid for
them to be removed this year.

I`ve got space provided by ProHosting too...and a couple of days ago they sent me an email demanding a "one time fee" of $10, or my site will be deleted within 14 days.
I only used them cos they allow users to run their own perl scripts, which I use for download tracking and page logs.
Anyway, checkout [url]http://www.port5.com,[/url] I`m moving to them..plus they allow PHP too (no more yucky perl for me)