(out-of-topic question)

In France, any Internet Provider you sign with, gives you a few (at least 5) Email adresses and some disk space (10Mb minimum, so you can host a few web pages).
This being true for free or fixed price subscription.

It looks like it doesn't work that way, on your side...

How does it work, then ??

Frenchy:

Hello, I use this ISP for my service. I get about the same amount of web page space as you and I am in Idaho, USA. If you click on the "our services" link and then the Internet link on the left of the page you will see the offerings. I also must brag that I get excellent customer service with a subscribers newsletter every month. When I have called and complained (not often) I usually get someone who is in the office, or will call back within 20 minutes. If they fix the problem on their end they usually call back and tell you they have the issue resolved. I know most places cannot even say that. If you have visited their page, then you can see they will soon be offering ISP based TV services. I can't seem to say enough nice things about them. I also have Mozilla Firefox for my web browser and have less problems now since switching from Internut Exploder. Since I know this company so well, I can also add they are using both Dell and Micron servers. If you live in their service area you are also on fiber optic lines vs hardwire. Unfortunately, I live just outside the service area. I cannot get their DSL or fiber optic lines. I hope this answers your question for my area. Anyone else???

Take care,
Stargazer

ASAP = Always Suspicious, Always Prepared

In my post, I forgot to quote Brian words...

My question was directly related to the fact Brian (and many other forum members) seems to have pb finding some space to host images aso...
It looks like their ISPs do not provide disk space...

Yours seem OK.

My ADSL provider is quite correct (except some "bugs" in their administrative process). TV is available, but I don't have a TV set.

Well companies aren't required by law to give members free web hosting, so it differers which each company. Most ISPs do give you a decent amount of emails and webspace, those that don't might charge a small fee. All people have to do is shop around a little. For hosting photos only www.PhotoBucket.com is great. It's free and you get lots of space.

Adelphia (highspeed) & Earthlink give you ample emails and 10mb disk space. But even many dirt cheap dialup ISPs like 650DialUp ($6.50 /mo) give you 10MB & 5 emails. Access4Cheap ($6.95 /mo) gives you 10MB & 2 emails.

Personally I think it pays just to buy web space. A few years ago I believe I paid $60 up front for 2 years of webspace service. For my money I got 100MB disk space, my own domain name, unlimited emails, tons of subdomains, tons of website tools, and various scripts. At the end of my term I told them I was going to look for another host and they gave me 3 more months free to try and keep me. Already in the 4th month and my site www.danielenetwork.com is still up (i think?) lol.

Today searching google I see dirt cheap hosting for $1.99 a month (or $21.50 a year) and offering 400MB disk space, 10GB bandwidth, unlimited subdomains, unlimited emails, unlimited ftp, cgi scripts, shopping cart, and other website tools. That's with ShieldHost.com, I never used or heard of them but that sounds like a sweet deal to me and the only thing missing is a domain name. Domain names usually cost $8 a year. So even a highschool kid with no job can afford that, just use your lunch money. lol.

I use www.imgpost.com for image hosting. Not only is it free but also extremely quick and easy and with no pop-ups. My problem was with finding a free space for hosting videos. I temporarily resolved that issue by running server software on my main machine at home however I just dropped $650.00 worth of hardware upgrades in to it so I could run some new, hardware-intensive software and for some reason for several months after dropping a ton of cash on new hardware, I dont like to run that machine 24/7. I guess it's kinda the same mentality that makes it so hard to get that first scratch on a new boat or 4x4. I'm going to resolve the issue permanantly by putting up a dedicated server (on my static IP) at home. I just haven't found the time to get around to it yet because the box I have in mind is currently running Win2kserver and I'd like to switch it ro RedHat9 before dedicating it as a server. This means I have to find the time to move all my data on to another box then wipe the drives and install/configure/update RedHat then put all my data back on it. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> That requires several hours for me to acomplish. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />