Web Hosting and Site Hosts

Terrashare Free Web Hosting

By Ammon Johns

Terrashare offer free web space and also pay you for page views that your site generates.  They will also allow you to recommend the service to others as part of a generous affiliate program.

What you get from terrashare is 25Mb of web space and a listing in their directory.  You also get a position in the affiliate program and the option to apply to be a Guru, Host or Moderator of their web community.

What you don't get is CGI access, SSL, shopping carts, etc. so this is really only suitable for building with HTML, although Java and JavaScript would enable you to add some dynamic features to your site without needing CGI.

Unusually, Terrashare don't support members using a .htaccess file to specify their own page for errors such as the 404 error (file not found) that can all too easily occur when sites are updated or when links have not been fully checked and tested.

Terrashare are currently unsuited to any serious web hosting usage because not only do they add a top-of-page banner (as most free hosts do) but also a bottom of page banner, and in what can only be described by me as foolish greed, they additionally add random pop-up windows to your site.

If your site may already open additional windows, then this thoughtless and unadvertised opening of extra windows could actually cause your visitor's computer to crash. Terrashare have no way of knowing how many windows the visitor may already have open, nor of how many their system can sustain.

Because of this, the general hatred by internet users for popup and console window advertising, and also the fact that Terrashare take advantage of the 404 errors to open additional popup windows and no link back to your site, I find them totally unsuited to even amatuer use at this time.