Crandal Means It!

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There she goes again.

Looks like with the demise of FWSH the philosophy group from AlangTulog is out, too. Well, they should just find a new webhost that is free and is capable of weathering the challenges of freewebhosting.

I did some work at the new Alang Tulog site and guess what, I even found it satisfying. The portal application used there is that of Drupal. I was glad JCole was there to help me out with the finer details of installation. FWSH gives CPanel hosting, but they don't provide Fantastico, so it took quite some time to install the portal and add some enhancements to it. JCole (a.k.a. joaquincole, a.k.a. ayepee) was using two new applications for working on websites that I've not noticed before. One is an unzipping utility which is not WinZip and the other is an FTP program that puts my CoffeeCup FTP software to shame. Man, I'd like to know more about that software...

Caramba has been quick to the draw. He found free webhosting and immediately set up a Drupal site at the new Alang Tulog. He would like to drive as much traffic to the website since part of the deal is that it must be an active website. He wrote to me this email:

Crandal, pare, bring along your friends and let's turn this Drupal site into a resource center for Philosophy and Theology...

Not that I'm really hot for Philosophy, but to bring Jeni along? Man, that would be the day...

What possible marketing strategy is FreeWH using when they offer free hosting for PHPNuke portal sites? I have mine at this address. The portal is basically good looking and very functional. But if one uses it simply as a blogsite, it is such a waste of space. The Nuke portal is 35MB in size! So what are they doing with these Free portals? Is it a matter of offer- it- for- free-that-it- can-be-made-known?

I was playing around with one of those free Nuke hosting sites at FreeWH. Since it was free, I went ahead and played around with it. I even asked Jen to come along and see what she thinks of it. The problem with sites like this is that they attract too much traffice (free is after all free) and therefore are sometimes rendered inaccessible. Just like today. If the portal site works, I'll use it for a news blogging site. If not, boh... just another free site...