I have been looking around for different hosting sites. Today I found one which seemed like a reasonable deal. I then read some reviews on the web about them. Try searching for the name of them with the word lousy or sucks. If you get pages of complaints back from the search engine that is probably a good indicator.

My site comes with my ISP and gives me 100MB of space and up to 5 e-mail addresses just for having them as an ISP.

I mostly don't like the pop-up ads or banners that are inserted in the "free" web sites. It might be worth paying for a site if that bothers you too.

I would suggest going to www.cnet.com and checking out what they say about web hosting.

Good luck in your search.

- Brian

Let me second MagicUser's suggestion. I was looking for CHEAP and was about to bite on some of those inexpensive sites. I then thought I'd just better to a global search and get some comments. You can find sites that rank different providers. The cheap sites I was looking for had terrible reviews. In fact, I wound up selecting Lunarpages because they were getting good reviews even though they were not that expensive. Some research is clearly in order before you send in your check.

Many thanks to Terry and Gary for trying out my Yahoo!Briefcase.
I have no idea why you get an "empty Folder" because I can get it without problem.
However, Chris of the other Forum has told me the same.
I am going to look into it today and find out why it's not working.
thanks again.
cheers

P.S.
I have just had a look back at the setting of my Briefcase and noticed that I had it set on "friends only"
I have now changed it to "public". Hopefully that has released the beast!
I would really appreciate it if someone could try it again now to see if it has cured the problem.
Thanks

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Eddie from Rotherham
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Thanks for the web site info guys. I think to start with I'll try the Yahoo briefcase.
Eddie, your MP3 folder is still empty even though you changed it from "friends only".
I'm currently still looking at the sounds on my Tyros, but I aim to upload a tune or two soon.

Ron

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I've discovered why you can't see Eddie's MP3 files in Yahoo Briefcase. You will not see any non picture files in the photos folder, so you need to add them to another folder other than that.

Cheers
Ron

Hi Ron
I appreciate your help here . I have taken your tip and created a seperate folder titled "Music" (this time with a capital 'M')
and uploaded my MP3 to it.
Would you be a real pal and see if it has worked please?
cheers



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Eddie from Rotherham
www.yamahakeyboards.info

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Eddie...
Your Music briefcase indicates there is one file in it...but when I opened it, it said there were no files present.

I am getting the same thing with my own MP3 briefcase and I have uploaded twice.

Eddie in Florida

@Eddie in Florida

Thanks Eddie for your input.

I have wasted the best part of a day here trying to get this right. Funny thing is that *I* can see the file when I go to the site and I also can download the MP3 which I uploaded without any trouble!!!
It takes me about 20 minutes on my slow modem to upload and then download and right now my patience is out!!
If anyone else has an idea why this is happening, please speak up now

cheers
Eddie Johnson

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Eddie from Rotherham
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Eddie, this one really has me puzzled. The file folder says there is one item, but when I open the folder, it says the folder is empty.

With the photo album, it says there are two files, but only one photo is there. Apparently, there is something in the settings that you must do at your end to make this work, but I'm not sure what you must do.

Wish I could help, but I'm at a loss with this one.

Cheers,

Gary

Hi Gary,Eddie in Florida and others, re Yahoo!Briefcase.

I received this letter today from Will Stewart of the Yahoo song group, which explains why we have been tearing our hair out recently.:-
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You can only give the public general access to your briefcase if you pay for the service. If you are using the free service you can only share with friends with a Yahoo identity which you have to insert for each file or folder (too much hassle for anymore than two or three). The way to bypass these settings is to send an email to an individual or group from your briefcase. But I don't think you can do that with your friends over in Synthzone as I believe you have to post messages from that site. I managed to download your mp3 at the weekend without any problems using the link in the email you sent. That is the only way you'll be able to use it unless you want to pay up.
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I think that it is not a starter for me to pay . However , it seems that if I know the Yahoo ID of somenone who would like to hear the MP3's, I can let them in.
I would like to hear the MP3 of Eddie in Florida, so if Eddie can include my Yahoo ID in his set up I would be pleased. My Yahoo ID is plauderei2

cheers
Eddie Johnson

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Eddie from Rotherham
www.yamahakeyboards.info

my mail is virus-free thanks to Norton Antivirus2002


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