Grobius's Other Web Hosts

January 2002: The old free web-hosting sites, with their banner ads, are for the most part now defunct, like the World Trade Center -- just in the last year. Pity. A few have survived under the aegis of the Trellis umbrella, where to get rid of a zillion pop-up-and-under ads you have to pay them about $10 a month per site.

Here is what's left of the Grobius Shortling Freeservices Network (GSFN)

• Angelfire Photo Album
     (Grobius Shortling Picture Gallery)
• Grobius on the Tripod
     (The second-oldest site, destroyed by a bigot, now partially restored)
• Grobius Shortling on AT&T
     (Lemel, Holmes, Festus)
• Batcave Link Page for Grobius Shortling
     (Universe explained, Evolution, Platypus god, Hot-dog theory; Misc.)
• E-Shire Net for Grobius Shortling
     (Farnish Witch Academy, Almondsey)
• Express Page
     (Simple kid stuff)
• FortuneCity Grobius Site
     (Various selections)
• Grobius on Freehosting
     (Turkeys, Wounds w/o cause, Writings, Peeves)
• Grobius on Freeservers
     (This used to be my About.Com British Castles Site)
• Grobius at Onestop.net
     (Lotto, Religion, Clayheads, Curses, Calendar Reform, Gay Pride, Job Hunt)
• Grobius at Spaceports (Orion)   [VANISHED! August 2004]
     (Moons of Blenkinsop, Atheist, Internet)
• Grobius at Spaceports (Atlas)   [VANISHED! August 2004]
     (Here is another version of Batcave)
• Grobius Shortling Fiction (Stormloader)
     (Fictions: WBW, Nadia, Dwarf, Aggie, Lemel, Gay Pride, Platypus)
• WebProvider(dot)Com
     (Family Web Pages)   [VANISHED! April 2002]
• Grobius.50megs.com
     (Atlantis, Hyperborea, Polaris, Wine-dark Sea; Food Pages)
• Planet Blenkinsop
     (Planet Blenkinsop Home Page)   [VANISHED! April 2002]
• Doctor Who
     (Doctor Who -- also hosts Farnish mirror site; plus the Imagine menu and Bettylou)

Most of the file managers and templates on these servers are slow and tricky (or just stupid), and the inserted banner ads, pop-ups and other things very irritating. Many have really ugly home pages and interfaces that are hard to navigate. What do you expect for free? Old-timers like Tripod/Angelfire and Yahoo/Geocities now have the best file managers for maintaining your site (at least, I think so, because I'm used to them). If all else fails, you can use AOL's FTP to upload files to other sites -- if you have AOL -- but their program is really clunky.

You can move the mouse around the clickable graveyard to see all the dead sites