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Is NearlyFreeSpeech any good?

Rabulah — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:02:04 -0800

What are your experiences with NearlyFreeSpeech.net? I'm looking into getting some new hosting, and I've been attracted by NearlyFreeSpeech, based on a comment here on Ask, and this review. It's going to be for a Wordpress blog. I'm interested in finding out what the level of service is like.

Does anyone have any experience of this setup?

Also, I use the wp-db-backup plugin. It seems (to me, though I could well be wrong) that this plugin uses cron, which NFSN doesn't support. Does this mean that the plugin wont work automatically?

Buying a domain name on NFS instead of GoDaddy

freddymungo — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:45:26 -0800

So I just started signing up for a domain on GoDaddy, but then found out I could do it on my Nearly Free Speech account for less instead, but I can't register that domain on NFS right now because I'm partway through the registration at GoDaddy. What do I need to do to sign up for it via NFS?

Are nearlyfreespeech.net servers globally banned by any filtering services?

allterrainbrain — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:58:35 -0800

I'm researching nearlyfreespeech.net. So far I find their operating policies & philosophies very solid, but I see another mf user commented, "Aren't the nearlyfreespeech servers auto banned by many filters?" (No one answered, since that was a piggyback question.) If there's any truth to that, it could be a dealbreaker for me since I need to not exclude users in academic/institutional settings. What say ye?