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can u suggest any free service.

15$ is a big money for me :(

Try pandela.com


Free Subdomain Names: Yes
Hosted Domains: 1
Free Subdomains: 5
POP3 accounts: 3
Email aliases: 5
Webmail: Yes
POP3 access: Yes
Catch-all emails: Yes
Email forwarding: Yes
Email autoresponder: Yes
Detailed bandwidth stats: Yes
Detailed Web statistics: Yes
SSI (Server Side Includes): Yes
Web-based file manager: Yes
Web Hosting Control Panel: Yes
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Perl: Yes
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MySQL database: 1
MySQL database storage: 2MB
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Really good site
Better than paid sites
coz they have 5 subdomain and 1 domain hosting

Limitation -2mb mysql database - very small for forums

yep i go with kiran. the 2mb sql database is too small.

can anyone know any better option,,if so please let us also know

kiran what is the bandwidth offered by pandela?

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Originally Posted by miztiik

kiran what is the bandwidth offered by pandela?

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they offer upto 4gb per month bandwidth

They have 3 plans : 50 mb & 4 gb Bandwidth
100 mb and 3gb band
150 mb and 2 gb bandwidth

all are free

well i dont think so it is worth to host with pandela with such a small sql db,

An active website or forum generates more data and with few days you would exhaust your 2mb

Yes. but there are no free hosts who offer all these ( php, mysql , domain hosting and subdomain hosting)

You can save a lot of space by disabling the search feature.

Installing the forum + 50 registered members + easy mod + 110 posts = 300 kb of mysql database.

Where did you get this information kiran?

is that of yours forums or is it from reliable source?

if it so, then even 2mb seems big with the pruning option

and how do you disable the search feature in a forum?

and how that would save space?

i got the above info frommy forum itself

i disbld the search feature using a mod and deleted the search results tble from my sql which take up mostof the spce

i believe that every time you post a message the forum searches for some unique new words which it will add as a value in mysql table. Then when your search using the serch feature , it just needs to searhc through one table and gets you the results.
I think this was done because it takes a long time to serch through the entire database for a query.

So longer posts implies bigger table. deleting this table wont affect nything other thn serch. i f your use the mod to disble search then everything else will work fine. The search feature will return no results for any query.

if yu want to have search at any cost ..you cud use third party searches like google search installed in your forum which may give you results of pages already crawled.

i'll give you the mod name and the search table nme in my next post