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Internet-accessible media, be it HTML/Websites or various files.

See also:

• Backups
• HTML Tidy is an important tool.
• Networking
• Search engine optimization
• Storage
• Web servers
• Website standards compliance

• /tag/website-software (live)

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• File Sharing is for files.
• Paste buckets is for text.

• Vaulting is for files and system backups.

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Testing ∞

• https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/

• https://ismywebsitedown.com/

Speed Testing (TODO) ∞

Email providers ∞

/tag/websites+email

Mailing list providers ∞

(TODO)

External website hosting ∞

proper hosting ∞

• https://www.engineyard.com/

  • For Rails.

• https://www.dreamhost.com/

  • https://www.dreamhost.com/legal/unlimited-policy/ - Doesn't allow: File upload / sharing / archive / backup / mirroring / distribution sites.

Free Hosting ∞

A good place to check is probably http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-mysql-database.php

I looked at these pretty closely.

• https://izfree.com/

  • https://izfree.com/community
  • https://izfree.com/blog/
  • https://izfree.com/tos.php
  • Allows domains. Does not require any personal information.
  • Requires a forum signup (but not activity). They've disabled forum signups, but I emailed for help. I never got a response.

• https://x10hosting.com/

  • requires one to regularly log into their forum.

crap hosting ∞

• https://sites.google.com/

• https://yola.com/ [ 1 ]

Website services ∞

blogs:

• wordpress.org

• https://www.tumblr.com/explore/trending?source=homepage_explore

forum:

• (none noted)

Domain names ∞

• https://register4less.com/
• https://www.godaddy.com/
• https://baremetal.com/
• https://www.noip.com/

• https://www.domainsbyproxy.com/

  • I've seen it used for privacy with godaddy stuff.

Dynamic DNS services ∞

• https://freedns.afraid.org/

  • Free DNS Hosting, Dynamic DNS Hosting, Static DNS Hosting, subdomain and domain hosting.
• https://account.dyn.com/
• https://www.noip.com/

• http://www.dhs.org/

Public DNS servers ∞

For you connecting out into the world.

• You could just run djbdns -- it's a replacement for BIND.

  • See also https://tinydns.org/

• https://www.opendns.com/

  • They have a nasty "feature" that redirects any request to a non-existent domain to themed Yahoo! search results. Apart from that, the service is very good, and I think if you create an account you can turn off that "feature".
• 192.9.9.3
• 207.181.101.4

• 207.181.101.5

Blog hosting ∞

• Twitter for microblogging, technically.

  • http://twitpic.com/ for pictures
• https://www.tumblr.com/explore/trending?source=homepage_explore

• wordpress.org

  • See also WordPress

Project hosting ∞

See also Comparison of open source software hosting facilities

• https://sourceforge.net/
• https://github.com/luaforge?tab=repositories [ 2 ]

• https://www.projectlocker.com/

File-hosting websites ∞

See also Peer-to-peer and Vaulting.

Various programming languages have repositories:

• Perl: CPAN

• Ruby: RubyGems

Various Linux distributions have repositories.

TODO - multi-upload

• https://about.filefactory.com/ [ 3 ]
• https://www.transferbigfiles.com/
• https://wuala.com/

• Freenet

  • A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System.
• https://depositfiles.com/

• https://about.filefactory.com/ [ 4 ]

2007-01-30 - RapidShare ∞

Picture-hosting websites ∞

• Twitter: http://twitpic.com/

• https://photobucket.com/

  • Paid

Which allow direct image linking:

• https://bayimg.com/

  • No censorship. From the guys who did the pirate's bay?
• https://freeimagehosting.net/

• www.obrazok.eu

unknown:

• https://pimpandhost.com/

  • They accept hentai, but porn is unknown
• https://pbase.com/
• upload.skins.be
• https://www.imagevenue.com/
• https://www.fotosik.pl/

• https://www.imagefap.com/

  • They accept porn

Video-hosting websites ∞

List of video hosting services

• /tag/video-hosting-services

• https://d.tube/
• https://motherless.com/
• https://www.dailymotion.com/
• https://app.photobucket.com:443/explore
• https://www.viddler.com/
• vloggerheads.com

• https://www.veoh.com/

  • They syndicate to multiple hosts! Their internal player is Windows-only.. bah.
• https://www.itemfix.com/ [ 5 ]
• www.pandora.tv

• https://www.asterpix.com/

webcam chatrooms and video streaming ∞

• Twitch
• https://video.ibm.com/
• https://bambuser.com/
• https://www.vonage.com/communications-apis/video/ [ 6 ]
• https://www.cam4.com/

• https://www.paltalk.com/

Audio-hosting websites ∞

See also Podcasting > Audio-hosting

• https://soundcloud.com/

Tracking ∞

• https://statcounter.com/free-web-stats/

  • They implemented some pretty evil mouse-tracking stuff.

Link protection ∞

TODO

Self-hosting ∞

/tag/hosting+software

• Dspam - Community Driven Antispam Filter

Server software ∞

• thttpd - tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server

• www.lighttpd.net

  • lighttpd
  • Renown for its speed.
• https://github.com/brendoncarroll/webfs [ 7 ]

• bozo httpd - [ 8 ]

Newsgroups ∞

• INN (InterNetNews)

  • A complete Usenet system. It includes innd, an NNTP server, and nnrpd, a newsreading server.
• Leafnode -- NNTP server for small sites

• sn -- News server for small sites

  • (archive)

Misc ∞

• http://siag.nu/pen/ (dead?)

  • A robust load balancer for tcp and udp based protocols such as dns, http or smtp. It allows several servers to appear as one to the outside and automatically detects servers that are down and distributes clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and scalable performance.
  • https://sourceforge.net/projects/penloadbalancer/
  • See also https://galeracluster.com/library/documentation/pen.html

• Varnish HTTP Cache

Dump ∞

• https://www.chatons.org/en

  • Collective of Hosters Alternative, Transparent, Open, Neutral and Solidarity

• https://www.tuxfamily.org/

See also:

• Wiki
• Cloudflare for caching and uptime and such.
• Search engine optimization

• Website standards compliance

Odd web server software:

• A web server in dd/sh
• PS-HTTPD: The PostScript web server
• awk web server

• HTTP Server in POSIX shell code

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• https://proxychains.sourceforge.net/

  • Allows you to use SSH, TELNET, VNC, FTP and any other Internet application from behind HTTP(HTTPS) and SOCKS(4/5) proxy servers. This 'proxifier' provides proxy server support to any app.

• Blossom

Squid / etc

• Squid - caching proxy
• Ad Zapping With Squid

• http://squirm.foote.com.au/

  • A redirector for squid. Good for low-resource systems I'm told.

Dunno ∞

• https://www.crowdfire.net/

  • Some kind of pseudo-hosting site?

Last updated 2024-08-29 at 15:26:07

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