# Free server with remote acces **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [May 11, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635 "2003-05-11T13:50:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![El\_Thierro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/858c86/32.png) [@El\_Thierro](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/El_Thierro)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/1 "2003-05-11T13:50:13Z")
[color=darkblue]Hiya! Don’t know if this is the right place to ask this, but hey, I’ll ask it anyways… :beam: Does anyone know a free server (such as geocities, brinkster, [freeservers.com](http://freeservers.com) …) which allows REMOTE ACCESS to files for a FREE ACCOUNT? I mean, I have a free account with brinkster and freeservers, and neither of them allow me to have remote acces to files on there. Anyone know where I could go for an account that does? Thanx in advance, Greetz [/color] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/2 "2003-05-11T16:23:50Z")
when you say remote acces do you mean ftp acces?? if so geocities and most of the freeserves have the ftp option just read up on the upload files section of the website or site manager usually its something like this on geocities the websites name is [http://www.geocities.com/dcpiratesdotcom](http://www.geocities.com/dcpiratesdotcom) so you would log on the ftp program like this [http://www.geocities.com](http://www.geocities.com) username=dcpiratesdotcom password = \*\*\*\*\*\*\* and it should work if it dont try changing the http:// to [ftp.geocities.com](http://ftp.geocities.com) if that is what you mean 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/3 "2003-05-11T16:37:54Z")
I think by remote access he means picture linking. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/4 "2003-05-11T16:41:34Z")
That would be hotlinking. Remote access sounds like FTP to me too :-\ If it is FTP then many free hosts support that. One of the “best” (in terms of what you get, I have no idea on their performance) free hosts is [http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/](http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/) I don’t use them but I hear good things AND they give you 50Mb, Unlimited Bandwidth, PHP and mySQL support, FTP Support. It sounds awesome…lol. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/5 "2003-05-11T17:01:55Z")
I think they have ads though as well, so I guess its kind of a matter of personal choice… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/6 "2003-05-11T20:21:53Z")
There are not many free hosts out there that are ad free. That isn’t to say they don’t exist though. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/7 "2003-05-12T10:37:38Z")
[color=darkblue]Umm, I guess I mean hotlinking then. What I mean is: when you put some picture on that ‘server’ (like brinkster), and you want to put a link to that picture (for instance in a forum, as an avatar or part of your signature) it sometimes isn’t possible: it says ‘free accounts don’t support remote access to files’… Guess they mean you can’t link to pictures… That’s what I mean. So I was wondering if there is a free server out there which does allow that… Wow, and I didn’t know Tripod Lycos had unlimited bandwith… That’s cool, coz my account at Brinkster keeps excessing the daily bandwith limit… But on the other hand, it’s ad-free… Tough choice… [/color] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/8 "2003-05-12T16:01:07Z")
Well I don’t know of any free hosts that allow hotlinking. You can hotlink with Geocities if you change the extension of your image to .txt before or after uploading it then targeting it as imagename.txt. This does of course break the rules of Geocities so it’s not strongly recommended, but thats your choice. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/9 "2003-05-12T16:14:00Z")
they bandwidth would be outragous if these places let everyone “hot link” IMages to anywhere on the web… Can’t say as I blame them I guess… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/10 "2003-05-12T16:35:03Z")
Yeah I agree too, I mean, a lot of people get all mad about banner ads and bandwidth on free host sites, but frankly, I don’t think anyone has much room to complain since they are getting hosting for FREE at the cost of someone else. And I just tested… [http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/](http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/) DOES allow hotlinking 😉 Heres a Test: ![](http://members.lycos.co.uk/lostinbeta/lib_banner1.jpg) (source url is… [http://members.lycos.co.uk/lostinbeta/lib\_banner1.jpg](http://members.lycos.co.uk/lostinbeta/lib_banner1.jpg) ) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/11 "2003-05-12T17:04:31Z")
i hope this works ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/12 "2003-05-12T18:32:21Z")
Law: [http://www.jaxlaw56.lycos.co.uk/tempgraf.gif](http://www.jaxlaw56.lycos.co.uk/tempgraf.gif) Should be… [http://members.lycos.co.uk/jaxlaw56/tempgraf.gif](http://members.lycos.co.uk/jaxlaw56/tempgraf.gif) You were a bit off 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/13 "2003-05-12T18:33:39Z")
i know i guessed but it’s fixed now. thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/free-server-with-remote-acces/20635/14 "2003-05-13T12:55:41Z")
[color=darkblue]Thanx for trying that out, Lostinbeta. I’ll sign up for an account with lycos now :beam: Cya [/color]