Just interested. Who was the first host you ever hosted with. My first host ever was Geocities and my first payed host was www.horizonws.com I believe.

my first host was also Geocities (yuck!), I've also used freeservers and tripod.

After getting sick of the banner ads, I went looking for a paid host...I found cyberwings...

My first free host: Geocities - If I remembered the url, I'm sure the page is still there :D
My first paid host: PHPwebhosting.com (I think thats the url) - I was there about 4-5 days before I realized they couldn't keep their servers up :D

Originally posted by adammc
my first host was also Geocities (yuck!), I've also used freeservers and tripod.

After getting sick of the banner ads, I went looking for a paid host...I found cyberwings...

You've just had it rough in the hosting world huh??? :D

I had a great time with cw until recently...and the host I (temporarily) have now is good. Things started out being pretty lame with geocities, but every time I get a new host it's better than the last...this time next year I'll probably be in hosting heaven :)

My first free host was Homestead. The best free host I've ever seen. Now they've gone pay :bawling:

My first paid host was Valueweb. They were pretty helpful. I also registered my domain using them too.

My first host was bravenet. I never had a clue what to do so i never finished what i was going to do.
That was not too long ago actually and then i went to geocities and stayed there few like 8 months and realized how bad they are then left and then paid hosting:o .

My first free host: www.acmecity.com or something like that.

My first paid host: www.jaguarpc.com :agree:

first freebie - geocities
first paid - freeboost

First host: http://www.webcom.com/

First free host: AOL

First paid host: www.ezpublishing.com

I can't remember what the first free host I used was. It was one of the big onces but wasn't Geocities or Tripod. I think it started with an 'H'.

My first paid host was Simplenet.com. I remember when I left them and went to a host that would allow CGI scripts. I thought that was the greatest.

Andrew

First free host: AOL
First Paid Host: Donhost

I used a number of free hosts, so I don't know who the first one was... but I used AOL at one point (very briefly, my space got used up quick heh), and I used Geocities.. I don't think I ever went far with Angelfire or Tripod, but I did setup accounts a few years ago and didn't like it.

My first paid host was ICOM, which I guess was bought by Interland now, based on what's on their website.

my first host was GREAT. It was like 5 years ago. thenuerve or something. It was a true virtual dedicated server. Root access and everything. Ran zues web server. Then someone abused their account, and they took away root access. I had to find a new host. I felt like a fool asking for root access. I learned a lesson there.

homepage.com? / homepages.com?

Originally posted by Andyc
I can't remember what the first free host I used was. It was one of the big onces but wasn't Geocities or Tripod. I think it started with an 'H'.

My first paid host was Simplenet.com. I remember when I left them and went to a host that would allow CGI scripts. I thought that was the greatest.

Andrew

http://www.crosswinds.net :D

My first paid host was hostrocket =P, I think I am quite lucky so far, haven't encountered a bad experience. *touch wood* =)

Originally posted by Matthew_J
http://www.crosswinds.net :D

:puke:

Gah I remember them... I used them too, heh.

My first free host was Tripod.
My first paid host... damn, I forgot their name! :(
Anyways, they were excellent!

Originally posted by The Prohacker


You've just had it rough in the hosting world huh??? :D

LOL! :laugh:

hmm, I think it was CobaltRacks back in the days they were crap and had little more than what seemed like the bandwidth of a 56k modem :) :eek:

then for a reason i still dont know i moved over to ***** (accompanied by their regular downtime, seemed like someone was unplugging the router every so often :confused:as a practical joke), yet another bad experience and i moved to WeinBar (now owned by Deru) ive had a few others none for a significant amount of time, i just went with them to test them out so i could become a better mod!

First Free Host: Spree
First Paid Host: Apixhosting

First Host(s): Geocities & Tripod

First Paid Host: Pair :cool:

First Free: Tripod

First Paid: ..can't remember their name. They folded four months after I signed on.

My first host was Geocities and AOL at the same time.

Was starting to code small programs for AOL 2.0 at the time and didn't even know what HTML was :stickout I just surfed the miniscule web that existed back then and had no idea I could make my own web page. Geocities was ok before they started to expansively think banners and advertising space ;)

My first free host was Geocities back in early 1996 when they were only small.

Those were the days where they had no advertising (just a link back to them on your entry page) and the owners used to frequent the message boards and talk with everybody.

Since a few years ago one of my friends hosted my personal sites on his business grade DSL connection so I never needed any paid hosting. My first paid host was back in 2001 with CFM-Resources.

--Shaun

web 2010

now hostcentric

good people then still the same

The first one I signed up for was Angelfire, but I could never figure out how to upload :o So then I tried Tripod and voila! I had a site uploaded.

Although I have used paid hosting for the last 18 months, that site is still online and bringing lots of hits to my current site. :cool:

First Paid ISP Host

www.netfeed.com 1995

First paid commercial hosting company
www.angen.net (Where I met Daniel of Effect Online)

Now mbshost

First Free Host : Tripod

First Paid Host : Readyhosting
Glad Im done with them but its been years but they still send me email telling me my credit card gonna be billed for hosting despite the fact I am not their customer anymore.
I emailed them to explain in vain.So you guys out there who ever consider Readyhosting as your first host, get ready to be haunted for good. ;-)

First paid host: prohosting.com

My first host for bestofhumor.com was my local ISP which was www.netusa1.net after that I bought a domain was with I think a german company who also provided me with list hosting using the great majordomo software.

www.esosoft.com was that one!

Free host was Geocities

Paid Host was emmmmm, was, hmmmm, can't remember was that long ago and they not in business anymore

My first host ever was Geocities and my first payed host was RackShack

My first was Angelfire.com and I'd still recommend them for beginners. Does the trick and can't beat the price.

My first free host: I can't remember the name (it had the word 'lookup' in it), they offered a whooping 100KB of space :D, later they were acquired by another company and stopped offering free homepage space. Geocities were available but I needed to name my files in a funny way before uploading them.

First free host: AcmeCity
First paid host: CommuniTech.net

Geocities and PHPwebhosting

first free host: wbs.net (400k of space, no CGI)
first paid host: Dreamhost (10 meg of space, still no CGI) :D

Greg Moore

My first host was SimpleNet. I had the Unlimited package for $19.95 per month.. unlimited my ass!

The next one was PCISD.. They were great in the beginning.. then they got bought out and went to ****.

First Web Host: Tripod

First Paid Host: VenturesOnline

My first was www.digiweb.com

I constantly cycled through free hosts...

geocities, angelfire, homestead...

Then hosted it off my own computer using ml.org (dyndns... Too bad it shut down... Monolith (ml.org) was a great site)...

Now w/ HostRocket... A little over priced for the actual package I have but, the level of support I've gotten (aside from their recent e-mail switch) has been worth the price paid.

First Free Host: AOL
First Paid Host: DreamHost.com

My first free host was crosswinds. But I never got any visitors on that website.

My first free host on which I hosted something was HyperMart.net (CGI, SSI, good uptime). Then I moved to F2S.com (ad free, CGI, PHP, PostgreSQL). Both of them stopped free hosting services now.

My first pay host was kryogen.com.

First Free - Geocities..., Second was Angelfire

First Paid - dreamhost.com, Second was aletia

Then a quick stop at someother reseller, and then McHost.

Now my own servers. Much nicer. :)


Steve

My first free host was : One of my ISPs
My first paid host was : Fasthosts Reseller forgot the name

My first free host was GeoCities, way back when the URL's were in neighborhoods.

My first paid host was http://softcomca.com/

My first was geocities. Back in 96 they were HOT!

My first host was stupidest most idiotic host on the internet.

http://www.digiblockshosting.com/

He used a cobalt rack, I paid around $60.00 for a entire year. Well my hosting was on and off, then about 14-20 days later his website is gone, so is mine. I talk to him on aim and he said he couldn't afford to pay his server. I asked for a refund, he said he spent it. He did have a 30 day money back guarantee. Then I check on him a month later he is backup and running. Then later he is down again. I still request a refund and he still won't give it! This happend back in october 2001. I just request the refund to bug him because he is such a a-hole. Thats my first experience.

My first free host was Homestead.com They were 10000000 times better then my paid hosting digiblockshosting.com

First free host......Earthlink ( came with ISP )

First paid host ...... Are you ready for this Cyberwings.... First paid host March, 2002 ended June 2002.

This is a nice thread...
I started thinking about my old days..
Here's what I came up with ...
An old site me and my wife had created when were not married... :)

http://www.angelfire.com/ak/AmarjyotiSangeetha/index.html

We had a lot of sites and email addresses with all kinds of sites like angelfire , spree, fortunecity, tripod etc...

Then we graduated to paid hosting .
Started with a reseller package with nomonthly.com ....

Have a great day :)

Regards
Amar

FreeHost: Maxpages
Paid Host: Fasthosts.com

First host was Hostonce.com , and omg. their support SUCKS!!!! never host there

Fortunecity
They were so cool, they had these little community things that you joined and you had a site address that went on forever, but damn they were cool.

Oh and if you were real special, you could be a moderator of one of the communities too.

xoom.com was my first webhost. very good at the start (free). My last free webhost was f2s.com

OMG I remember xoom, haha. those were the days....

first free host was angelfire, then xoom, tripod, etc

first paid host. haha, well i never really.... bought a shared hosting acct
never

i went from free hosting (anglefire, xoom,) to racklocation (dedicated server)

First Free Host: Geocities in 1996

First Paid Host: Tierranet for 2 years I think. Payed $10 a month for no CGI, bad control panel, no PHP and not a lot of anything else. Their service was good for a while but then they made everyone switch to their new pricing plans and they told me I'd have to pay $25 for what I was currently getting with them, so I left. :)

First paid host = Endore.com
First Free Host = Homestead.com,Geocities.com

I first was interested in websites in the early days of GeoCities, Xoom, and Tripod.

First paid host was Ventures Online... Once there, I never looked back. :D

First payed host was futurequest, Extremly nice services and futures.

Mine was daysite.net --> i check them out from time to time and their site hasn't changed a bit in almost 5 years!

:)

Originally posted by jstonehouse
Mine was daysite.net --> i check them out from time to time and their site hasn't changed a bit in almost 5 years!

:)

"For example: The DaySite Website was created by someone who is not particularly good at creating great looking sites. Yet this same person is good at making it functional."

Geocities but shortly thereafter i moved to angelfire (no forced advertising at the time).

I still use my origional geocities password for most forums/non vital things lol :D

Paid hosting - started out with bluegravity.com but too expensive so i went to dollarhost.com :D

First host in 1995: http://www.webcom.com/
:cool:

virtualave.net (free one) and mybizhosting.com.

First Free Host: http://dromadaire.com
First Paid Host: http://nirmani.net

My first free hosts were Angelfire.com (http://www.angelfire.com/) and My Free Office (http://www.myfreeoffice.com/) (no longer in existence). I never really bothered with Geocities because I couldn't stand their incredibly long and useless URLs.

My first website was at Geocities back in '96 or '97 :eek: Then I moved on to Below10Host :)

ReadyHosting, would have been around '98?

Fell for the whole unlimited thing. ;)

I used many free hosts before that though. A heap! :D

I also remember my first Web Browser... I believe it was mosaic on OpenVMS with DECwindows. :)

Aaah, them were good times, back when the only sites were universities... :)

My first (free) host ever was Xoom back in 1997 (if I remember well :) )

First free host was Xoom... back in the day.

First paid host... I'm quite certain it was that whole APHosting/Xism deal which was not a very pleasent exprience.

First Free Host: FortuneCity

First Paid Host: AtomHost

My first host was Geocities, then LochNet on a subdomain then Web66 on a real domain, where I started HostInvestigator if I remember correctly. Web66 is still going, still the same plan specification and pricing almost, LochNet still going too, but they've change site plans and design significantly.

God that's a long long time ago.

My first free host was Geocities

My first "included for free host" (e.g. it came with my dial-up provider) was ----- drum roll please --- pig.net

My first paid host was prowebsite.com (insert rant)

My first post to a web hosting forum was at HostInvestigator.com (go figure)

Oh, in 1998, I created my first site, personal, it was on some host that I forgot the name of, then I moved to spree host, also free, and then to Free Servers, all were yuck! Finally, got my own domain and GOOD hosting. And now…..(planning to) starting a hosting company myself soon.

First Free Host- Geocities

First Paid Host- Cyberwings...I know, I know, you guys don't even need to say it. *lol* I actually spent a few weeks looking for a host and finally settled on Cyberwings in January, just my luck huh? I mean, they had so many raving reviews and everything, up until May or so. I changed hosts of course and am quite happy. :)

Anyone remember RedRival? They were my first free host and, for a while, there was no better place to have a free site. I think they now go by RivalPro or something.

My first paid host was EZPublishing. Still use them for a client; they're pretty good. My personal site is at FutureQuest and I can't say enough about them... Outstanding performance and support.

my first paid hosting
www.okihost.com
still with them too :D

Talk about bringing a thread back from the dead. Anyways my first host was StormPages, then I shared a dedicated with a friend. And now I'm managing 5 dedicateds..

My first paid host was an Australian company called WebCentral.com.au. They were the web hosting division of Powerup.com.au. They are a local dialup ISP. I was paying AUS$35.00/mth for a simple hosting account with 500MB data transfer/mth. I had 4 personal sites with them. I then moved them to jumpline.com and then went to addr.com. That was a few years ago. :D

My first host was Prodigy back in the days of Prodigy classc where the address was pages.prodigy.com/mypage I don;t remember the URl though. Then geocoties. Then I used a friends server now I rent dedicated servers and sell hosting.

as I remember now, my first free host was freeshell.org
I never used paid hosting (only dedicated), so after SDF I used my dialup line. Since 1997 I colocated server (I don't have the server now. I wish I have - it had some old FreeBSD on it ;)). Own servers since 1997 :stickout:

My first was geocities, my first paid was a local company that went out of business, now i host myself :)

heh, the real first place to host something was FidoNet. Does anyone remember FidoNets? Old times ;)

Hi

My first host was priddynet.com. My screen name at that time was "gooser" and if you type in a certain URL, you'll see that he (or someone he sold the domain to) made a porn site out of it:angry: . That was nearly 7 years ago and he hosted me in his basement on an old Windows box and nothing worked right at the time but it was'nt his fault - just that a lot of the technology did'nt exist back then. He was a very good host though.

- Cheers

My first paid host was Allwebco. That was in 1999. I did a search on Yahoo/Google and chose the first one with the biggest storage. Had no problems with it - good uptime, speed, support and everything.

...But about 5 months later I was "lucky" to click on the banner of ***** which offered even more webspace. Something like 500Mb for a basic account (which I think was yet rare in the year of 1999). And, of course, they offered "Unlimited bandwidth". I couldn't resist the temptation to switch to *****. The uptime was terrible. In the very first month the server with my site went down for 2 days.

It is such a pity most newbie hosting clients choose the host only by the price and storage/bandwidth limits and, just like me, have to learn the lesson before they get the idea of what is really important about a web host.

***** - means C.I.H.o.s.t, of course

first host was homepage.com, stayed there for a year until they went out of business.

first paid host was featureprice.com (but I didn't pay for it)

My first host was the free 10MB my ISP provided. My first paid host was hostme.com. They were really good but their prices were to expensive for what they provided.

My first host was Alabanza back in 1997 when they still served individual customers.

First Free: GeoCities
First Paid: Ameritech

first free host : angelfire
first paid host: doteasy
current: aplushosting.com, ehostpros.com and one still with doteasy

Originally posted by kycomputing
I first was interested in websites in the early days of GeoCities, Xoom, and Tripod.

First paid host was Ventures Online... Once there, I never looked back. :D

Wow, I forgot all about Xoom! I used them back in the "day".

me... fortune city-- 100MB

it was great :) I then left them for topcities and after that, got paid hosting

My first free host was AOL and my first paid hosting account was with Linux Web Host (linuxwebhost.com). In the past I've also used HostRocket (way back when they only had like two servers), and LiquidWeb in the past.

OE-Pages.com!!!

Has anyone been there before? The "Create-Uh-Page" wizard? The site is gone now, I guess they got a bit too popular and couldn't gain enough funds. But it was the coolest site ever. Webpage wizards, they even had a library of graphical horizontal animated gif's which were the best..

They even calmly tried to explain to me why my images wern't working in the "insert your own html" box; cause the URL's were from my local C drive and not online (made in word).


The good old days......
:bawling:

hrm, my 1st free host was homestead, my first paid host was tacidblue :angry: :angry: :angry: .....big mistake...

My First host was free with freeserve.com

Next, when I moved to paid it was prohosting

My first free host was xoom.com - not sure if they exist anymore.

First paid host was ukservers.net

The good old days when I would ask questions such as:

What does the <b> mean?
What is linux?
What's FTP?


LOL :D

My first free host was Tripod. I then moved on to paid hosting with Communitech.net....OUCH! I was paying about $24.95 for a small plan at the time. After which, I moved to a dedicated server with Catalog.com

Overall, Communitech was there with me when I needed help.

EDIT: My first host was the Armory, a Santa Cruz geekhaus (geez, I'd forgotten about that...) I didn't really have a web page on either ucscb or Si and Am (the Sun Sparc servers). "Don't type rm -r...no, I said DON'T type that!!!"

My first (no, scratch that, second) host was Geocities, back in 1995 when it was just started and the monthly newsletters were written by a woman named Erica - I remember when she got married, and included bits about her wedding plans.

My first paid host was the ISP Got.net. After that, it was Webcom, before they were bought out by Verio.

this post got me thinking about the first websites i made on the free hosts so i tried what i thought was one of the old sites on tripod, its STILL THERE :) last updated february of 1998! i thought they deleted inactive accounts

I've got one up there that hasn't been updated since 1995...so I think that Tripod must have a very interesting definition of "inactive".

My first ISP hosted my first website, http://www.conterra.com

Dixiesys.com - best bang for your buck

CyberWings - CEO Shawn J White, scam artist got me for $29.50

HTTPme.com - The Best

CyberWings - CEO Shawn J White, scam artist got me for $29.50
hehe...I was lucky, technically speaking I owed him money :D

My first host was Geocities after a while of that I moved to my own home server then after hosting my personal sites on my home server for a long while I decided to get my first paid hosting at HTTPme.com.

hmmm , i guess my first pay for host would be phpwebhosting , prior to that , i used spaceports free service

My first host ever was Crosswinds - never again *shudders*

Went through many, many free hosts before I finally decided that I'm willing to pay for my hosting, so I got around to using AWH and have been with them ever since ;)

my first FREE host was www.20m.com

the paid hosting(but got it free as a prize of logo design) and still with them(of course): Dreamcodedesign.com

By the way, what's wrong with Crosswinds?

My first "Pretend" Host was Homestead

My first and current real host is Aussiehosts ... Gary ..aka ..Editor.

Excellent.

Laurie Hill aka The Doctor.

My first host was Homestead when free and it was also my first paid host.

The former was ignorant but the latter stupid.
:cool:

Hi Gordo ... :beer: All the best for the New Year.

We all started out ignorant when it comes to web hosting and the net in general, however we Learn. That's the one point web hosts need to remember.

1st Free: GeoCities (1999)
1st Paid: I thought it was CyberWings but after reading Gordo's response, remembered it was Homestead also. I can't believe I paid for that.

My first free host was freeservers, which I used for about 4 months. The site is still there too, after 2+ years (just redirects to the actual domain I moved the site to). www.nano-reef.4t.com

My first paid host was addr.com (about 2 years and 2 days ago). I stayed with them for about 6 months or so.

First host 3 years ago was ireg.com which was later bought out about a year ago by Ampira.com . IReg.com was always up good servers and all but their support couldn't get any worse they would always redirect my problem to different places til finally it would get fixed.

First Free Host - AngelFire.com
I had a lot of fun here, and made my first actual website :)

First Paid Host - IMINBudget
Was here about a year. Great host!

My First Free Host: Fortunecity :angel:
My First Paid Host: Donhost :love:

Never had a free account.
Never even had a regular shared account.

Started with a reseller account at burstnet. Long ago when they were located at VDI.

FREE

First: Angelfire

PAID

First: Hostonce :(:(
Second: FeaturePrice :o
Third: HostParticle :D:D:D

First hosts:

Free:

GeoCities, Netfirms

Paid:

ukname.net, nocster.com, activahost.biz, hostmatix.com, nocster.com (again when they setup my server! been 26 hours now!).

Jul 1999 - Free ISP provided: camtech.net.au (now part of Ozemail, page still linked to!)
Sep 2000 - First domain hosting: Portland.co.uk (still there, still free, still unreliable)
Sep 2000 - First Paid: dogcomputers.net (reseller of fasthosts.co.uk, dogcomputers have quietly disappeared)
Apr 2001 - affordablehost.com (still there)
Sep 2002 - First reseller: resell4less.com

Hangs head in shame - http://www.inuk.com/

My First Free Host: geocities, 3 years since it was just a hobby site. saw them go from ok-ish to the utter s.hite they are today.
My First Paid Host: computica

I went through a whole bunch of free hosts. The first one, however, was Geocities (http://www.geocities.com). The others I've used include: VirtualAve (http://www.virtualave.net), Tripod (http://www.tripod.com), Crosswinds (http://www.crosswinds.net), DigitalRice (http://www.digitalrice.com), Port5 (http://www.port5.com), etc. (This may have something to do with my age. At 12, I couldn't make a decent website, let alone pay for a domain.) I think VirtualAve lasted the longest.

The first "paid" host I had was... well, my father. He hosted my domain from the servers in his office. I didn't get any CGI capabilities or anything like that (and I wanted to host my friends there, too), so I finally went to a true paid host: Aletia (http://www.aletia.net). I was unhappy with them, so I left them for Softerweb (http://www.softerweb.com). Since Softerweb went out of business(?), I'm now at Dot5Hosting (http://www.dot5hosting.com).

That's a lot of hosts... Heh.

—Allie

My first host was affinity back in '96 or '97.

Nothing like paying 19.95 a month for 50 megs of space and 1 or 2 gigs of transfer, if that . . .

My First host was also those free things, I tried `em all then I moved onto a friends server then I used various places, some like UCVHost.com << Frikkin terrible dont touch them with a 10 foot pole, they dropped a customers of mines site and mysql db unintentionally during an upgrade that had some 100 property details, it was awful.