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19 August
26 July
23 July total 611 services.
19 July
2 May
19 April
12 April
14 December
10 December
23 November
15 November
9 November
2 November
26 October total 480 services.
19 October
12 October
5 October
28 September
21 September
14 September
7 September
24 August
17 August total 450 services.
11 August
27 July
22 July
13 July
16 June
8 June
2 June total 411 services.
27 May
25 May
17 May
13 April total 380 services.
6 April total 376 services.
30 March total 366 services (added three and remove three).
23 March total 366 services.
9 March total 358 services.
23 February total 353 services.
16 February total 345 services.
9 February total 340 services.
2 February total 333 services.
26 January total 327 services.
19 January total 323 services, after removing several services which had been unreachable or returning no DNS for two weeks in a row. Added a link to a new list of web hosting firms who offer reseller opportunities.
12 January total 332 services.
9 January just became a Member of the Internet Link Exchange
6 January total 326 services.
29 December cleaned up the list a little, removing services where the URL was responding file not found and also services for which there was no url submitted. This still leaves the total at 323 which is more than three times as many as when I took over this list about a year ago.
15 December
8 December
24 November
16 November We're back over 300 providers again, and there are a couple of new lists of providers added this week also.
13 November I seemed to have messed up the Sunday refresh somehow and the entries which I listed as being new for 10th November weren't in the list. Anyway, that should be corrected now, and I've added the following two whilst I was doing it.
10 November
3 November
27 October
20 October After some pruning this week the list is back down below 300 entries. The following three entries were returning file not found
There were also 12 entries in the list whose hostname no longer existed, these hosts were: www.market-place.com netsrc.netservers.com www.webtoday.com www.staffassoc.com msilbaugh.com www.site-master.com www.corserv.com www.acsil.com www.compulink.forthnet.gr www.global1.net www.minet.com marlin.ssnet.com:8010
The following entries were new this week
13 October
6 October with these additions the list now has more than 300 providers.
29 September
23 September I have added the first banner advertisement to the lists today. Take a look and let me know if it bothers you or if you are interested in sponsoring one of the lists. I've added a What's not so new page where I have archived older changes to these pages, to try and keep this page down to a more manageable size.
22 September
15 September
11 September Changing web space provider from Digiserve to pair Networks, along with several days of power outage as a result of Hurricane Fran, conspired to delay the regular updates to these lists. It also meant that the submission form wasn't working for a few days, so there are not too many new submissions. Everything should be back on track now, but please report any problems. I am considering allowing banner advertising on some of the lists, if you have any strong feelings about this please let me know.
25 August
19 August
12 August
28 July I've started to experiment with arranging the services geographically as well as alphabetically. Presently 159 out of a total of 271 services listed have included their address, so the alphabetical listing is still much more complete. I resisted arranging geographically, since a list of web space providers is already available from Yahoo arranged this way. But several people have written to request this, and since I have the information anyway, it was just a matter of creating the lists. I would still like to arrange by features - as mentioned back in March - but that will take a lot more work.
21 July
14 July
7 July
30 June
23 June
16 June
10 June I am building the list in a different way now. It should look identical, although hopefully it will reduce the number of errors, and also the size of the page, thus reducing loading time. If anyone has a problem with the new page, please let me know. There are now more than 250 providers in the list.
2nd June
27th May
19th May
12th May with the addition of J & A Enterprises we now have every letter of the alphabet covered for provider names :)
5th May
28th April
22nd April
15th April several new submissions bring the total of providers listed upto 200.
1st April
25th March seven new services, and two updates this week.
18th March another five this week, which brings the list of presence providers upto 177.
11th March five new services this week, bringing the total to 172
3rd March I have just started to divide up the pages. The priority was to move the list onto a separate page, since the main page with all the providers and discussion was growing to about 100K. At the moment I haven't divided the list up at all. There didn't seem a lot of point dividing it by country, since Yahoo does this much more comprehensively than I could hope to. Instead I will leave it as a single list until I have some inspiration about how I can manage to arrange it by features as discussed below.
On the 5th of February I asked for your opinion on how this list should be divided, since I felt it was too long. In three weeks I received 56 votes, which represented about 2% of the visitors over that time. 50% of the votes were for a break down by price. A partial implementation of this is available in the form of the LIST of low cost web space services however, to collect and keep uptodate pricing information on the 150+ and growing number of services in this list is beyond me, and unless the information could be kept uptodate the pricing information would become a liability.
The second most popular solution, receiving about 25% of the vote, was to provide some level of geographical break down by country and/or state. When I took over this page I required address information on new submissions, but break down by state/country has already been done by Yahoo.
The third most popular solution, receiving about 20% of the vote, was to provide a break down by features, such as whether cgi is supported and which server the provider is using. I think this is the most practical solution which does not duplicate the efforts of other lists. I will begin work on such a break down of the list, but it is likely to take a few weeks to have something useable, and in the meantime I might just divide the page up into countries, just so that it doesn't take quite as long to load.
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