Website down

[avevale_intelligencer]

Having removed all my mp3 files, I am stll 23Mb over Madasafish's 100Mb space limit, and all the other files are tiny, such that to remove enough would gut the site. I have taken everything down for the moment, and am looking for a new home.

One.com offer to transfer the domain for nine quid, and give me three Gb free for a year. What it would be after that I do not know. Is that good, or could I find better? What questions should I be asking? Does the world really need me to have webspace at all?

Comments

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

..or maybe he uses a Microsoft product as his editor? Have you seen the HTML that produces???

Seriously, good point. I used to have quite a large mainly-text website that lived on a floppy disc. 1.23M was more than enough, without moving the decimal point two places.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I used to have a perfectly good word processor which lived on a 180kB (single sided) floppy together with its operating system[1] (the spelling dictionary lived on another floppy). Are Word or OpenOffice actually 1000 times better than Wordstar 2? (And if you take into account the difference in processor speeds -- another factor 1000 -- it gets even worse.)

But yes, my basic website (less the loads of gzipped tar files holding my backups) will still fit easily on a floppy, and the UK filkcon ones I've done will as well (less the PDF files for the forms and progress reports, but that's because OpenOffice doesn't compress them well).

[1] CP/M. Again, is Win7 (or Ubuntu for that matter) actually 1000 or more times as powerful?

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

In terms of ease of use, I'd say Word was easily worth the extra space. I could never manage Wordstar or anything like it.

The HTM(L) files are about half composed in Notetab and half Dreamweaver CS3. There's no appreciable difference in size that I can see.