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FTP advice - 12/25/2008 10:08:25 AM   
Termyn8or


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Status: offline 		This may seem a bit out of character, but I want to pay. The reason is I want total control over the content, I do not need them to give me an HTML editor, take my text and pics and add their banners etc. I want to either copy or write the pages stem to stern.

The reason ? Well I regret to inform you that every link I have ever put in here (or anywhere) that starts with members.aol.com is GONE. They simply shut down their FTP service completely. I found out when I went to upload something. It popped up with a notice that I had until Oct 31 to retrieve any files I needed from it, in Novfuctingvember. Well I am shutting down my credit card service to them as of the next billing date. I should still have the emails, but not much more. While it would be nice to go back a few weeks and retrieve my files as some of them I actually don't have locally anymore (the older ones), I would more like to go back in time and take my money back.

I was pretty much getting 140MB for $11 per month, but no file could be larger than 20MB. That was a problem to start with, sometimes I wanted to upload files in the 30-40MB range. So all in all once over this hurdle I will probably be better off.

One good one I saw was private, my buddy gave me access to send him some technical info that was too large for email, about 35MB. It was totally browser based, no client software needed. Something like that would be nice. However it is private, he is the system administrator.

Any recommendations? Remember I want that space to be mine, no banners, no ads and of course no censorship.

T 
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RE: FTP advice - 12/25/2008 2:08:03 PM   
understeer


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Status: offline 		www.dreamhost.com

Edit:  If you do decide to go with them, send me a message and let me know.  I have a promo code that at least gets me some credit with them on my hosting. 


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RE: FTP advice - 12/25/2008 3:17:26 PM   
Musicmystery


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Status: offline 		Look in the phone book and get a REAL ISP. Why go through a portal to go through the portal that is aol?



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RE: FTP advice - 12/25/2008 4:36:36 PM   
Stephann


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Status: offline 		If you're willing to wait a couple days, I'll have plenty of FTP space (2+ gigs) to give you, as I'm setting up to do video on demand.  Shoot me an email on the other side, and let me know what you're planning.

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RE: FTP advice - 12/25/2008 5:04:09 PM   
Evility


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Status: offline 		I was pretty much getting 140MB for $11 per month, but no file could be larger than 20MB.

Ouch. I bought 3 years of deluxe hosting from GoDaddy for $180. That comes to about $5 a month if my math is correct. 150GB of space and 1,500GB of monthly bandwidth. I can host multple domains. I host my personal site and my girlfriend's site there and we use it to FTP things to each other. This may be  more than what you are looking for but I recommend GD. Free 24/7 telephone tech support and the performance has been quite good.

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RE: FTP advice - 12/25/2008 5:49:36 PM   
NeedToUseYou


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ORIGINAL: Evility

I was pretty much getting 140MB for $11 per month, but no file could be larger than 20MB.

Ouch. I bought 3 years of deluxe hosting from GoDaddy for $180. That comes to about $5 a month if my math is correct. 150GB of space and 1,500GB of monthly bandwidth. I can host multple domains. I host my personal site and my girlfriend's site there and we use it to FTP things to each other. This may be  more than what you are looking for but I recommend GD. Free 24/7 telephone tech support and the performance has been quite good.



I use godaddy to more less for static file thus. I wouldn't recommend them anymore for things that require programming, and therefore use CPU resources they put to many users on the cheap plans, but it's speedy for serving files and straight out Html pages, and there are better plans than godaddy for getting a dedicated server. Though for just storage its cheap and I've no complaints.

Someone on here has a reseller site, you could sign up through them and they'd make like 20 bucks or something and it'd cost you the same. They mentioned it in another thread.

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RE: FTP advice - 12/26/2008 9:55:19 AM   
Termyn8or


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Status: offline 		Well, I guess I was geting ripped off. Found out yesterday that my billing cycle ends on the 27th so I guess I am out another $12 (yes it went up, for NOTHING ! ). I have to make an appearance at work today, and I am not wasting a Saturday on the phone with AOL to get off it so I am out another month, no big deal, but it will stop. Even if I got on the phone right now I doubt I could stop the next charge anyway.

Steph, I might take you up on that, or if I can get someone here vigged for a referral I have no problem doing that as long as they don't come up with hidden charges and everything to make it up, I mean a real offer. Some promotional offers are a bit too promotional if you know what I mean.

As to the content, mostly webpages and some PDFs, some videos and MP3s etc., pictures, things like that. At this time I have no need for CGI scripts, Java or the like, although there is one Java script I would upload. It gets you into the bondage.com IRC chatrooms without any banners or anything. Other than that, HTML, DOC, PDF, WAV, JPG and all that. Just serve the files.

As far as getting a real ISP, I have heard of that before but am unsure as to exactly what it means. For example I know AOL is not a real ISP to alot of people. I have had SBC for a few years now and was using BYOA on AOL. It was the simplest solution, but as many know and luckily didn't tell, when you use AOL FTP your email is decipherable from the URL. That doesn't matter anymore because it is gone.

Which brings us to the next point, permanence. All AOL did was to cut things out, things I used. Like Usenet access, been gone for years. I considered dropping them then, now this ? They are gone. All they want you to do is watch the pretty pictures, go to disney online and keep your software updated every couple of days. What are they in now AOL version 12,765 ? That when AOL 9 is still being beta tested by millions of aggravated users ?

I don't want to turn this into a bitchfest about AOL though. It's time to get some FTP so I will consider the options.

Thanks so far, but I am soon off to work so I'll have to think about this later.

T

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