MY ANALYSIS:



ADVANTAGES:.
- 100MB space.
- They allow either personal or business sites.
- Many different website tools.
- Excellent customer support, and tutorials.
- Attractive site, with events always occurring.

DISADVANTAGES:
- Community URL construction (community.fortunecity.com/subcommunity/###/)
- Banner is inserted, and not movable.
- Host site is slow.
- Host has history of problems.
- Additional tools not hosted on host server.

DETAILS:
Fortunecity is one of the more well known free webspace providers. They offer 100MB, which is the most available of those that limit webspace. They have another community type site known as Acme City, which has communities revolving around Looney Tunes characters. They are always having competitions for best sites, and they promote new members. They have one of the biggest libraries of add-ons available, most of which are customizable. They also offer free e-mail which is constructed well ([email protected]).
The URL construction is poor, since this is a community driven site. Your sitename will be the location of your site, not your username. Also, the banner is automatically inserted into the top of every page. This includes frames, though they claim that if the frame is too small for the banner to fit, the banner won't be inserted. They have had many problems including computer and backup computer crashes. The host always lags, taking forever to navigate around their site, but not at members sites. The additional services they offer are actually offered by Bravenet. This is a disadvantage since you have to sign-up to Bravenet services as well. Instead of having to worry about one host having problems, now it's two.
This host is very popular and provide excellent customer support. They do have a history of problems, but they have taken steps so that it won't happen again. A very good community to belong to, the other members of FC are very supportive.


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