Web review

While Google starts and stops its new service called “Pages“ for new users in a couple of days, victim of its own popularity, there’s a very good italian web space provider, known for many people but still unknown for the most: it’s Altervista. Running since 2000, now it has 1 million of unique users every month, and it hosts thousands of sites.

It’s different from the most of the other free web space provider: Altervista doesn’t insert ads or banners in users’ pages, and it also offers further services (everything is free) as the PHP scripting support, and it gives also a MySQL database to users that ask for it. Space limits are large (100Mb) and also the bandwidth limits compete with the ones of retail operators: 10 Gigabytes for month. File uploading can be done via web, with a nice interface, or via FTP.

For demanfing users, there’s also the possibility to buy space upgrades and/or bigger performances for the database, at very low prices.

Note for english speaking people: Altervista is only in italian, but the registering process is easy and understandable for anyone. If you’ve problems, you can help yourself with the automatic Google translation of the home page or of the sign up page.

http://www.altervista.org

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