If you're using Geocities as a web host...

[JackHiggins]

... Then change- now!

If you've made a new addon, and are trying to show a few screenshots of it, they won't show up, and people will have to copy & paste the address themselves into their browser, which is time consuming, and a lot of people won't bother downloading from you because they never get to see the pics. (A lot of people just assume that the link is wrong, when they see a broken image)

A simple search on google reveals loads of other free web hosts, many of which are probably far better than Geocities, tripod, or any of the other "beginner" web hosts. A few of them are listed below. I haven't had a chance to try any of them out, so if you know of one that's not great, pm me or post it here, and i'll take it off the list:

http://www.50megs.com *rubbish, it seems
http://free.prohosting.com
http://www.freewebspace.net
http://www.bravenet.com
http://www.freeservers.com *Possibly doesn't allow outside linking
http://www.fortunecity.com

Feel free to post more below. I've seen too many people say "email me and i'll send you the file, I don't have webspace" - you have no excuse now!!

Even if you don't want to learn html (which is relatively easy anyway), you can write a simple text file with a list of the addresses of your files, and save it as index.html. People can then easily download your files whenever they want.

Hope this helps people out!!

[ElPelado]

I am not sure, but if I remember well, the free webspace option in freeservers does not allow to put pics in other places, like Geocities...

[John Van Vliet]

Hi , they are nice if you can fit the dl's in only 20 to 50 meg
my maps file is 2.17 gig and the whole web site(both sites)is 2.57 gig and growing the virtual textures arnt up yet .

[PhthaloType]

A way to circumvent remote linking limitations is to change your image file suffix to ".txt". The brower will still open it as a JPEG/GIF.

I chose Angelfire only for the reason that they used to let you choose between on-screen banner ads or pop-ups. I choose pop-ups because it wouldn't interfere with my site design and more and more people employ pop-up blockers. I guess they've gotten wise to this, because now they don't offer that option and I'm stuck with banners. I might as well change to another host so I at least don't have to have the shame of "angelfire" being in my URL.

[Harry]

A way to circumvent remote linking limitations is to change your image file suffix to ".txt". The brower will still open it as a JPEG/GIF.

That depends on the Mime-type the webserver sends with the data. If you don't have control over this configuration, changing the suffix will not work for standard-compliant browsers.

Harald

[maxim]

Forget 50megs. It's simply unusable. You will have no fun using it, just waste your time.

maxim

[eburacum45]

That's pretty much true; I have a 50megs site but it sometimes stops outside linking and the layouts are crap.

[ulillillia]

http://www.50megs.com *rubbish, it seems
http://free.prohosting.com
http://www.freewebspace.net
http://www.bravenet.com
http://www.freeservers.com *Possibly doesn't allow outside linking
http://www.fortunecity.com

Even better is a master list of hundreds of free servers. Webhosts4free.com has a list of hundreds [about 300 [!]] of webhosts that you can look into.

Though I'm with Angelfire, the only minus about them right now is that they've got quite a few bugs right now with the free service. The bottom ad mysteriously appears right over the text of the page making it nearly impossible to read it. Click a link, then click a link that takes you back to that same page is your best bet.

[DumberDrummer]

Just thought I'd bring these to your attention.

http://100webspace.com/
http://50free.com/
http://netrulon.com/
http://freenukehosting.com/

Enjoy!