I want to test uploading my game online, but I don’t want to start paying a monthly fee for a good host until the game is done and I’ve made a real website. So can someone point me towards a free host? I probably won’t be having more than one or two people visiting the site at once since its for testing, so disk space won’t be a problem.
Been using it for my game (in my sig!) since I’ve been working on it, no problems so far at all!
Thanks for that, it looks really great
Oh yeah and by the way that game is awesome.
Many people use dropbox as well. You can apparently host webplayers there. Though I’ve not done it yet, hopefully someone can weigh in with a link on how that’s done.
Dropbox is great for that. Once installed, it’s a file folder on your hard drive that behaves like all other folders and synchs with the hosted space - you don’t have anything special to do.
To display a unity webplayer file, place the html and unity3d files in a subfolder of your public folder then copy the public link of the html file. (r-click → dropbox → copy public link)
Example: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8933990/Notes/SplosionTest/WebPlayer.html
DropBox initially gives you 2GB of free hosting space per machine, with no hard bandwidth limit. Just don’t try to use them to host a massive file downloading website like fileplanet or somesuch. Webplayers are usually fine. They also do some kind of viral marketing, through referals, for you to get more free space. For example, if you click the link in my signature you’ll start off with an extra 256 mb of free online space, and I’ll get the same bonus.
The free 2GB should be more than enough for most web purposes and will also teach you to optimize your stuff. But it’s the painless usage that makes DropBox great.
I might try that later, but I set up the 000webhost.com account and its working great, I just use Filezilla.
i second that dropbox is great… i use it for testing webplayers, sharing files and even to host my small lame website heheheh
you can get a free acount here:
you can point a domain to look to specific place so you can host a simple website, or you can get a free .tk domain at dot.tk and point to your dropbox account and do the same
hope this helps
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Thank for the information dude, help me a lot over here…
Cheers
I was using 000webhost.com, and a free domain with co.cc stuffix (you can get it from co.cc). Hosting is great, just be warned, don’t use slow mysql queries, if you do so, you will be baned immediately, without ability to restore or back-up site (thats how I lost my site :))
Thanks for the tip, im using 000webhost.com too for my marketing site, but im using dropbox.com for the FTP because on the 000webhost.com side for some reason, 3 out of 5 PC for testing cannot streamed the data correctly, thus the game could not be played
What MySQL queries did you do to cause it? I’m using it for my Unity data.
Reading a lot of information from table at one time, it was similar to “SELECT * FROM smth” command. So if you want to make statistics don’t read whole table at one time. Also show databases/tables commands are very slow, so I recommend not using it.
Various posts have already recommended Dropbox or a few free hosts.
If you just want to test whether your website and game works well in a web browser, but as thought it were coming over the internet, you can download EasyPHP which is a complete Apache web server, PHP interpreter and mySQL database that is incredibly easy to set up.
If you want to test it as though it were coming from another machine, and you have a second computer available, set up EasyPHP on that instead. Alternatively, make use of VMWare or Microsoft Virtual PC (both free) to install an OS and a web server.
Its fantastic.
about “Dropbox” … can I use the same account in TWO different machines
Yes, that’s the idea of Dropbox - to share your data between devices (including PC).
There is no free service that is of the same quality as a payed one
So expect more problems using a free one. (e.g. forced banners, slow speeds, downtimes, insecure setup etc)