800 MB Web Hosting FREE???

[The Dude]

I've just found this British ISP offering 800MB web hosting for free!!

Anyone try this?

http://www.i12.com

[jbennet]

lol i get like 5mb (or is it 50mb?) with NTL. Sucks as its only plain HTML, no php or anything.

[Sturm]

why not host your own?

[jbennet]

Against the TOS and they block the ports

[Sturm]

Tos?

[joshSCH]

terms of service? With who, your isp?

[EnderX]

TOS usually stands for Terms of Service.

[jbennet]

yeah my ISP

[joshSCH]

Theres ways around that ya know ;)

[jbennet]

Not when the ports are blocked at the ISP's main router at the telephone exchange...

[joshSCH]

oh, ic... What the hell is your isp's problem?

[jbennet]

We have no download cap (most other ISPs have 1-30gb per month) and have speeds of up to 10mb so i think they need it or else it will be abused

[joshSCH]

ahh icic.. how much do you usually have to pay for Internet service each month?

[jbennet]

They provide our TV and phone (both cellphone and home) too so we get a package deal.

2mb on its own is like £18 per month ($35ish)

10-20mb (20mb is only some areas) on its own is £37 per month ($75ish)

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/websales/service.do?id=2&buspart=search

[jbennet]

the 2mb package including TV, home phone and cellphone is £40 per month ($80ish)

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/websales/product.do?id=11516

[Sturm]

I never knew my isp had a cap, but when I downloaded about 13 gb of linux distros, movies, and videos in one day ;-), the next day my internet connection was at about 5 kb for the rest of the month.

[joshSCH]

haha.. yea, they called us once.. They are always complaining b/c I run a TOR server, and you can only imagine the kinda of traffic that is associated with it.. They've only limited my dl speed once so far though.

[jbennet]

lol well i downloaded the entire contents of ftp.uk.debian.org so i could make my own apt mirror for my LAN and they didnt care

[Sturm]

omg lol....thats like over 200 gb right?

[jbennet]

yes but if you just do the main sections for the x86 architechture then its less

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/286

[Sturm]

how did you update it?

[jbennet]

I use a script which runs as a cron job. It uses wget to update my mirror with packages when the version number is higher

[Sturm]

pretty sweet. Is that how most debian servers work? how about new packages?

[jbennet]

yeah I think that proper mirrors use Rsync to pick up the new pakages and versions but i couldnt get that working.