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Detail for Portland Communications

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General information

Technical details

Available space: 15 megabytes
Bandwidth: Unlimited megabytes per month
PHP scripting: Yes
mySQL: Yes
PERL CGI: No
ASP: No
ASP+: No
Cold Fusion: No
MS-Access database: No
Java Environment: No
Java Server Pages: No
JDBC: No
Python CGI: No
Zope: No
FTP upload: No
Email sending: No
Host O.S.: AIX

Advertising info

Will advertising be put on your site? No
Can you have your own paid ads? No

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Host Description

Update 2003-10-09:
We just received a mail from Portland stating that "With immediate effect, Portland Communications Ltd can no longer support PHP on our Freeweb Accounts. A small minority of users have continued to abuse the Free service and this is no longer viewed as acceptable. If your website relies on PHP please upgrade to one of our paid services as quickly as possible. We believe our Enhanced hosting package offers excelent value for money and retains PHP."

What a pity!

Features:

  • 15MB of web space
  • Colour Statistics
  • Full CGI Access
  • Multiple Email forwardings
  • No banners or pop up adverts
  • Support for all domain names, including nu, cx, to & cc
  • Subdomains of portland.co.uk & port5.com also available
  • Daily backup
  • Server in the U.K.
Restrictions:
  • The account must not exceed 100MB of transfer each month. (100MB = 10,000 web site hits at 10KB each.)
  • The hosting of adult or illegal material is not permitted.
  • The hosting of MP3 files is not permitted unless you are the copyright owner of the files.
Portland won the Internet Magazine "ISP of the Month" award both in September and November 2000.
Portland currently hosts something like 300,000 sites. :-)

To access mySQL, you'll have to ask for it separately once your account is active.

FTP uploads are not always in "real time"; i.e. sometimes it takes 30 to 60 minutes for the new uploaded pages to be visible.

upd. 2002-02-17:
After all, it is still one of the best services.

See what other users say about this host...

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User Comments

Portland is the WORST!
on 2005-08-21 from 81.226.172.x
You can have a free or an enchanted home page at Portland, no matter. After a while they say you are over quota and you have to pay them or they take the site down. And they cheat you and do this even if there is no over quota. It is better to turn this over to the police.
Bandwidth
andoni_cool@yop... on 2004-12-29 from 81.7.64.x
i'am using portland hosting and only bad thing about it is 100mb/month Bandwidth Limit!
...
yigalr@jce... on 2004-01-20 from 81.106.195.x
it is basically like a slightly bigger geocities with no ads !!!
Over and out
on 2003-10-13 from 213.10.186.x
I Used portland for about a year and was pleased with it. But in two weeks time they ceased cgi & php because of some people who behaved badly. So now it's over and out, I think it's very weak to do it like this....
Re: no more PHP
on 2003-10-09 from 151.29.235.x - A reply to: #167
I received an e-mail stating that PHP would be discontinued. They're probably sending it out in batches? Anyway it's a real pity!
A$$hole$
on 2003-10-09 from 193.67.187.x
They fu(king removed the PHP without even sending me an E-Mail about it. They only sent a mail announcing CGI would be cancelled, and then they decide to remove PHP also.
NO PHP
on 2003-10-07 from 195.93.32.x
I repeat NO PHP is available on this ISP (for free anyway) as the service has been removed. Tech support are incompetant and unhelpful. No Telnet access
Re: Re: Very good
on 2003-09-22 from 213.156.34.x - A reply to: #143
I agree it's quite good sometimes down or very slow but in the end it's free....
Re: Very good
php@ema... on 2003-09-11 from 151.30.253.x - A reply to: #140
I used Portland for a while and it worked good enough; surely one of the best free hosting options I came across.
Very good
lenzcs@ema... on 2003-08-26 from 213.156.34.x
If you consider it's free, in the end it's very good...
damn!
on 2002-04-28 from 130.67.216.x
mine wont work.. as the rest of you!
of course
on 2002-04-24 from 213.10.48.x
Internal Server Error
database down
on 2002-04-24 from 205.186.145.x
the database is down rite now so new accounts are closed
rcelestino
pipo@rce... on 2002-04-23 from 200.32.96.x
its doesnt work?
#xx#
on 2002-04-23 from 62.11.1.x
Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, support@portland.co.uk and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Dr.X
me@cxw... on 2002-04-21 from 62.231.88.x
this site sucks!(internal error):-)
Got it together now!
r@zz.... on 2002-04-21 from 132.178.209.x
430 Not found Unable to resolve name: www.portland.co.uk
Very worst
vrcsuresh@yah... on 2002-04-20 from 61.11.76.x
again internal server error
works great! (N)
on 2002-04-18 from 212.115.192.x
internal server error
bleh
on 2002-04-16 from 62.234.99.x
internal server error
Damn!
on 2002-04-15 from 163.121.153.x
Internal Server Error while trying to just create an account
Problems
r@zz.... on 2002-04-14 from 132.178.179.x
They're sorta ok, but they have their servers laid out on a flaky network, so sometimes you're "here", and sometimes you're "there". There are features disabled in PHP, also. I don't like them nearly as much as as php4hosting.com, which costs $4.80 a month.
free hosting
budi8@sol... on 2002-04-10 from 203.130.245.x
i want get your free hosting
Idoesn't work att all
anluiz@glo... on 2002-04-10 from 200.193.27.x
Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, support@portland.co.uk and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

dosn't work
titus_pc@blu... on 2002-04-09 from 194.29.12.x
it give a internel server error

y@yah... on 2002-04-09 from 210.23.115.x
It doesnt work
dosn't work
123@123... on 2002-04-06 from 24.58.43.x
The last time I was on it, it didnt work. It said internal Server eror
is excelent. but...
zeuscesar@yah... on 2002-04-05 from 200.43.171.x
if u read this in this week you must to know, they are in reestructuration. The ftp, and all main db is offline.
I love it!
php@ema... on 2002-03-31 from 151.30.240.x - A reply to: #98
I use Portland and I think it's definitely the best.
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