Free hosting.

kgun · #1 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 08:51 AM

We know that there are a lot of free hosting services on the internet, among the best known are blogger and wordpress.

There is another BraveNet that makes the following offer on their site:

"Our free werb hosting package features five hosted domains, 1.5GB bandwidth, 50MB disk space, easy website builders & much more!

Anybody that have experience with this hoster?"

**wige** · #2 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 09:43 AM

Blogger and Wordpress are more oriented for blogs. It looks like Bravenet may not support PHP on the free accounts though, and no MySQL.

kgun · #3 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 09:48 AM

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Use the XML family of technologies if you can and that is good enough. Do we know the full potential? What can we do with XSL?
Use a database and a server side scripting language when / if you need it.
MS uses OpenXML as the format for Office 2007 files and reduced file size by about 50 % compared to binary format, if I heard correct on the MS seminar. Difficult to believe, since there are much overhead on XML documents.

**wige** · #4 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by kgun

MS uses OpenXML as the format for Office 2007 files and reduced file size by about 50 % compared to binary format, if I heard correct on the MS seminar. Difficult to believe, since there are much overhead on XML documents.

Actually, that size reduction is compared to the Office 97-2003 format, which was a proprietary XML format that added much more style information than the newer format.

kgun · #5 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 11:38 AM

Ok, thank you, but related to this thread:

Physical Location Of Server & Search Results I think free hosting of some of your sites can be good for SEO. You can order some domain names and spread out your message / content on different IP's (and Google Datacenters) preferrably in different geopgraphical areas.

That may help surfers find your sites.

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