The free sites are fine if:
1) you don't mind the space and extra time to load the
banners that they put on your page.
2) You don't want a dedicated URL domain
("www.aol.com/rusticville/mainstreet/spitfires/index.html"
rather than "spitfires.com").
3) You have less than 10 megs of items to put on it
(that's under 60 640x480 images, 300 pages of html
text or any combination there-of). If you're hosting
archived messages (such as this email list, you'd use
up that 10 megs in about....oh...2 weeks.
4) You must have less than 500 megs of down-loaded
data per month. So, if you only have 5-10 people using
the page a day, then you're fine. (If you go over the
alotted amount, they turn-off the DNS pointer to your
site for the remainder of the month).
You can get rid of problems 1 & 2 and increase your
space and download alottment with a few deneiro
($10/mo. +), but that sort of defeats the "free site
possibility".
And if you want a further logistics of maintaining a
site I'm sure there are many who could chime in.
Running a host web site (and an email list for that
matter) is a lot different than sticking your family
vacation photos on a static web page.
Like a Triumph. The host pages need "stuff" to keep
them going. Mostly though....free time.
-Terry
Find a job, post your resume.
http://careers.yahoo.com
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