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General file/web hosting talk
Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 19:24
by Compa
I'm basically fine with people hosting anywhere that allows you to at least download a file without requiring one to use Chrome, or an external application that has to be designed specifically for said file host (which basically rules out MEGA and Box in that case, then). It's more for the sakes of this community targeting configurations that are considered 'long obsolete and unsupported' by many websites so for accessibility reasons, it seems rather ironic to support using file hosts that explicitly break on anything even slightly 'old'.
Dropbox, Google Drive, MediaFire and Yandex.Disk are all okay in this scenario - at least all of those you can simply 'wget [url]' somewhat easily if you desire.
Naturally, my favourite recommendation is set up your own FTP/HTTP server, turn directory indexing off in Apache and host from a server you rent online or even your own device but that isn't always possible.
Re: What Windows 8 should have been
Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 19:31
by K4sum1
Compa wrote: ↑27 Jan 2021, 19:24
I'm basically fine with people hosting anywhere that allows you to at least download a file without requiring one to use Chrome, or an external application that has to be designed specifically for said file host (which basically rules out MEGA and Box in that case, then). It's more for the sakes of this community targeting configurations that are considered 'long obsolete and unsupported' by many websites so for accessibility reasons, it seems rather ironic to support using file hosts that explicitly break on anything even slightly 'old'.
Dropbox, Google Drive, MediaFire and Yandex.Disk are all okay in this scenario - at least all of those you can simply 'wget [url]' somewhat easily if you desire.
Naturally, my favourite recommendation is
set up your own FTP/HTTP server, turn directory indexing off in Apache and host from a server you rent online or even your own device but that isn't always possible.
In my case, I need a copy of Chromium to download from Google Drive, and now they force you to allow 3rd party cookies to download from there. I also dislike Yandex, because I also have to use a Chromium fork to download from there too.
Re: What Windows 8 should have been
Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 19:35
by Compa
Try spoofing your browser as IE7 for Yandex and/or turning off JavaScript - it should redirect you to a much nicer looking page. :3
Re: What Windows 8 should have been
Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 19:37
by K4sum1
Compa wrote: ↑27 Jan 2021, 19:35
Try spoofing your browser as IE7 for Yandex and/or turning off JavaScript - it
should redirect you to a much nicer looking page. :3
I have JS off by default, but I can try that.
Edit: Did nothing for me.
Re: What Windows 8 should have been
Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 19:45
by Compa
My useragent override is set for both '*.yandex.com' and 'yadi.sk' and the actual UA is 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)'.
Re: What Windows 8 should have been
Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 19:47
by K4sum1
Compa wrote: ↑27 Jan 2021, 19:45
My useragent override is set for both '*.yandex.com' and 'yadi.sk' and the actual UA is 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)'.
I tried another browser, and it worked there, got the same page as you with it.
Re: What Windows 8 should have been
Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 19:50
by K4sum1
I tried to download a file, and I get "Сервер временно недоступен, попробуйте обновить страницу" error ("The server is temporarily unavailable, try refreshing the page")
Same exact page and file in a Chromium browser works fine.
File host rant/discussion
Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 19:53
by Compa
I give up. Also since I decided to derail the thread, I'm splitting most of the posts.
Re: File host rant/discussion
Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 21:38
by ChansLeChan
I once tried to do my own file server with a free web host but almost all of them require the end user to have javascript. The only option is the set one up inhouse.
Re: General file/web hosting talk
Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 21:46
by Compa
ChansLeChan wrote: ↑27 Jan 2021, 21:38
I once tried to do my own file server with a free web host but almost all of them require the end user to have javascript. The only option is the set one up inhouse.
That's because almost every free web host is essentially a ByetHost clone (e.g. InfinityFree/ProFreeHost for example, though they're more cleverly disguised than most of them). See: myownfreehost.net
If it's not a ByetHost clone, it's more likely than not gonna be an AwardSpace clone, since they also do free reseller hosting. See: resellercluster.com
This board actually uses iFastNet, ByetHost's paid services, since it works reasonably well and doesn't cost too much for a shared web host with 'true' cPanel included.
Re: General file/web hosting talk
Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 21:56
by K4sum1
Compa wrote: ↑27 Jan 2021, 21:46
ChansLeChan wrote: ↑27 Jan 2021, 21:38
I once tried to do my own file server with a free web host but almost all of them require the end user to have javascript. The only option is the set one up inhouse.
That's because almost every free web host is essentially a ByetHost clone (e.g. InfinityFree/ProFreeHost for example, though they're more cleverly disguised than most of them). See: myownfreehost.net
If it's not a ByetHost clone, it's more likely than not gonna be an AwardSpace clone, since they also do free reseller hosting. See: resellercluster.com
This board actually uses iFastNet, ByetHost's paid services, since it works reasonably well and doesn't cost too much for a shared web host with 'true' cPanel included.
Do you know if it's possible to enable TLS 1.0 with iFastNet?
Re: General file/web hosting talk
Posted: 27 Jan 2021, 23:18
by Compa
It's not, and that's more or less a limitation of cPanel and/or the server configuration on their end.
For all means and purposes keeping HTTP is more sensical than allowing insecure ciphers.
Re: General file/web hosting talk
Posted: 15 Feb 2021, 20:19
by Theodor
I found freeware hosting myapl.eu3.biz - its fine, but files larger than 10mb not allowed.
Re: General file/web hosting talk
Posted: 15 Feb 2021, 20:27
by K4sum1
For small files I mostly use catbox.moe, sometimes awau.moe if I've bothered to configure it for this install of Windows.
Re: General file/web hosting talk
Posted: 16 Feb 2021, 18:10
by Compa
Theodor wrote: ↑15 Feb 2021, 20:19
I found freeware hosting myapl.eu3.biz - its fine, but files larger than 10mb not allowed.
This seems to simply be a reseller of AwardSpace. Most free web hosts are clones of them or ByetHost (you can tell generally because the signup form of the former will contain 2Checkout and/or references to 'AttractSoft gmbh', and the latter will likely reference 'iFastNet' and have horrendous grammar when registering for free hosting).