SlopHost rents space on a computer that is switched on all of the time. You put your pages onto it once, by FTP, and from then on anyone in the world can read them at any hour, including while you are asleep. This is the entire product, and we have not found it necessary to complicate it.
| FIVE MEGABYTES Enough for about a thousand pages of writing, or eleven photographs, depending on how the scanning goes. |
YOUR OWN CGI-BIN Perl 5 scripts run under your own account. A guestbook and a counter are already in there, working, so the first evening can go on the page itself. |
| AN HONEST ADDRESS www.slophost.com/~you. No neighbourhood, no suburb, no plaza. Your name, after a slash. |
ALWAYS ON The server sits in a locked, air-conditioned room with its own line to the Internet, and is not also anybody's desktop. Transfer is unlimited.* |
| FTP UPLOAD Any FTP program works. Set it to binary before sending pictures; everybody forgets this once. |
NEW! CUSTOMER GALLERY · UNDER CONSTRUCTION
We are writing to each customer for permission before linking to them. |
| SlopHost | GeoCities | Tripod | Angelfire | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your own cgi-bin | Yes | No | No | No |
| An address without a neighbourhood in it | Yes | No | No | No |
| Banner on your page | None | Theirs | Theirs | Theirs |
| In business since | March | Longer | Longer | Longer |
Drawn up from what each of them prints about themselves. We have left in the line we lose.
Visitors since the counter went on in April. It counts us as well, and we are in here a great deal.
Netscape NOW! 3.0 BEST AT 800×600 GIF89a INSIDE
* Within reason.
There is no keyword for us on America Online. We asked what one would involve, and have filed the reply.
Best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3.0. Readable in Lynx, where one of us maintains it is better.
© 1996 SlopHost · Last revised 11 October 1996 · www.slophost.com