FreeHostia Hosting

Published on August 5, 2007 in CO.NR Related. 14 Comments

FreeHostia is an excellent stable free host that provides the same quality of service as paid hosting with more than enough features for any personal website. Their hosting is very powerful and as they are partnered with the CO.NR service we know and trust, we can be assured of a quality free host.

This service is also ad free so will provide a great service with out any forced ads. However, the free hosting plan is set to “expire” after a year to avoid hosting dead sites but can be “renewed” for another year at no cost at all. See here for details on their free plan.

Main Features:
1. Free with no ads
2. Data storage: 250 MB
3. Monthly bandwidth: 5 GB
4. 99.9% Up time
More details here

Here’s a note from FreeHostia about their free hosting:

Our fully featured Free plan is perfect for hosting a personal web site or a small community portal or forum. Using our Elefante installer you can install the necessary scripts easily with just a few clicks. There are no forced ads. Free hosting accounts are on the same servers as the paid ones, so the Free plan gives you the chance to fully test our services to better decide whether to pay for it or not in the future and could be used as a life-time fully featured free trial for our paid services.
Here is the full list of features you will receive with your absolutely FREE web hosting package.

In conclusion, this host is an excellent free host overall and definitely worth using for a stable quality free host with out the limitations of forced ads. I would rate it 9/10 for its excellent service and up time. Hope it helps guys.

Major Directory Update

Published on April 12, 2007 in CO.NR Related. 2 Comments

Hey, the CO.NR Directory has been upgraded to the latest paid version of its script (phpld v3.1) thanks to the kind license donation from Brandon, also known as Pressedobject at the CO.NR Forums. This new directory script is filled with awesome features that will benefit both you as the submitter and me as the directory owner. 

All data including your link details have been transferred with no changes and categories have the same urls as they did before. Here are the three biggest differences between the new and old directory:

1. New Design
The new CO.NR Directory features a new design using validated css to ensure that it renders well on all browsers. The new design is also simpler and adjustments have been made to ensure that that all text is easy to read and navigation between pages is simple.

2. Link Detail Pages
All links which have been submitted to the directory including those submitted before the change now have a unique link detail page customised for every submission. For example here is the link detail page of Egad Community: http://www.directory.co.nr/detail/link-192.html.

3. Easier Submission
This new submission form is now simpler and easier to use, customized for co.nr websites. In the old script some submissions caused errors but that has all been fixed. The new image verification code at the end of the form is now easy to read with no distortion. Here is the new submission form: http://www.directory.co.nr/submit.php

Cheers guys and I hope you like the improvements made and feel free to comment below if you would like to say something about the new directory or the changes made.