Web hosts...

[MrTwosheds]

Ok, 1 or 2 of you may have noticed I put up a new home page hosted by my ISP. It looks like being a short lived thing.
They have rules on usage, and it seems that having a site up for one week, setting it as my browser home page while designing it and having to my knowledge about 2 other visitors, is enough to cause them to SERVICE UNAVAILABLE it because of excessive usage. This is of course ridiculous. But having worked for an ISP, it does not surprise me at all, they don't actually want to do web hosting, but it seems to be one of those things that is expected of an ISP, so they just do it so badly that nobody with any sense uses this service.
This got me looking elsewhere, and of course completely befuddled by all the offerings.
All I want is a small page people can dl stuff from and sufficient space to host a bz2 mod (eventually)
I don't want a forum, for obvious reasons, I do want html5 and Java etc to work, I also want to be able to be annoying and make it rather graphically intensive. Its not going to make me any money so its got to be very cheap. Preferably Uk/Euro based. Not sure if that matters though.
Anyone here got any Ideas or recommendations?

[squirrelof09]

https://www.nfoservers.com/webhosting.php

More for game servers, but it's cheap and it comes highly recommended. I rent a few dedicated and virtual servers from them. I use their webhosting for domain and email management.

[Red Spot]

Imo, the only good reason to take the 'free' webhosting some ISPs provide (over here they all do) is to use it as a simple filehost. Expect slow uploads though

[MrTwosheds]

That's what I was doing, I was a bit shocked at how low they had put their "abuse" level though. I simply cannot believe that my crappy web page is that popular. I believe it was my setting it as my browsers home page (unreasonable?) while continuing to work on the files, that triggered its service unavailable event. Basically I can have a free web page as long as 99.9% recurring of the world population never look at it or it has virtually no content.
Its a "service" that is designed to stop being a service if it is actually used. This would make more sense if I could actually find the page where I have to pay them to make it work properly, but I can't.

[GSH]

For all the grief I gave Dreamhost (though that's mainly their 1-click installs of PhpBB that stank like a field of angry skunks), they've never once batted an eye on my posting BZ2 patches (~100 MB), BZ2 music packs (176MB) or BZ2 large texture packs (230MB). For raw website hosting -- straight up fileserving-- , they've been generally quite stable, and never once bothered me about bandwidth.

-- GSH

[Red Spot]

That's what I was doing, I was a bit shocked at how low they had put their "abuse" level though. I simply cannot believe that my crappy web page is that popular.

Not sure about this, but I wouldnt be surprised if they have some sort of poormans tool checking your webspace for what kind of traffic it generates. Like it noticed the same IP connecting 20 times in a row, blocked the page, and requested a manual intervention from some form of controller. Who in turn realised it was simply the owner of the webspace looking at it and unblocked it again.
Dont be surprised how stupid/ingnorant companies can be in their own field of expertise

[squirrelof09]

I see anywhere from 1500-2500+ hits just on bzscrap per day. It was around 200-500 In the first month per day of launching the bzscrap.org webhost. I imagine a lot of the traffic is bots mostly from the .com ages of bzscrap. It would be 4000+ if I unblocked these hosts... I've blocked a lot of traffic from known spam data centers, mostly china.. I've got a defined robots file. It's not impacting the server, but maybe one day I'll look up some IP's again to filter out some of the abuse.

In reality. It's mostly Bot traffic. Search Engines, etc. Bot rarely download files >100MB but I've seen it happen. Every now and then I see a person downloading all of bzscrap...

But thats just the bzscrap domain. All other domains pointing toward my servers pull maybe half of this each.

[Nielk1]

I like Site 5, I can find my referral link if you want.

I got am Unlimited* account there and it seems pretty good.