Wednesday, October 21, 2009

I Need a New Host

I have a problem. In their continuing efforts to make themselves less valuable to me Rogers and Yahoo will no longer provide me with file hosting after October 26.

This means that I have to bring all the files that I put up on GeoCities somewhere else. For the pictures and html documents it is a hassle, but not a big deal.

The problem file is my Human Bingo Excel file. It is the most popular thing I've done and I am having a hard time finding a place to have it hosted where people can easily download it without having to go to wonky ad-filled sites.

It is 92 KB.

Any ideas?

7 comments:

  1. Guillermo10/21/2009 9:25 pm

    Google Docs

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  2. David Scrimshaw10/22/2009 9:18 am

    Thank you, Guillermo, but I don't think Google Docs will host an Excel file.

    I can convert the file to a Google Docs spreadsheet, but so far, Google spreadsheets don't seem to allow for macros.

    Also, it is bit of a nuisance to print from Google Docs.

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  3. Milan10/22/2009 9:31 am

    How much bandwidth does this file require per month?

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  4. David Scrimshaw10/22/2009 2:00 pm

    Milan, it's a 92kb file. The page that links to it gets about 20 hits a day, so the max download would be about 2MB per day.

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  5. RealGrouchy10/22/2009 2:27 pm

    You could use Google Sites to host your website, and you should be able to upload xls files to it.

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  6. Milan10/22/2009 4:07 pm

    I wouldn't mind hosting a file that requires such a small amount of bandwidth for you.

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  7. David Scrimshaw10/22/2009 6:35 pm

    Milan, that is a kind offer. However, it appears that RealGrouchy's suggestion of Google Sites has done the trick.

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