I'm a game dev and right now I'm making myself a simple ajax website to show off my portfolio.
I saw this and thought, hey perfect!
I tried it out and now I dont see the point of it... There doesnt seem to be any ftp access to where the site is hosted so I cant create new directories or upload multiple files at the same time. (As far as I can figure out anyway)
Theres plenty of free adless webhosts that have ftp and php if you want. Eg. http://www.000webhost.com/
Neocities just seems like a another one of these with less features atm.
I strongly disagree that 000webhost is in any way comparable to NeoCities. Reasons:
000webhost has a complaint list long enough to circle 8 city blocks. NeoCities doesn't randomly delete sites or secretly try to funnel to paid services. It offers one service instead, and it's free. Considering the creator's goals, this is ideal.
ATM, 000webhost caps bandwidth for the free package which NeoCities doesn't.
Rather than providing everything including the kitchen sink and have it patched together poorly, NeoCities offers something very simple very well.
I consider NeoCities to be Twitter to 000webhost's Facebook.
(Disclaimer: I'm in no way affiliated with NeoCities)
I put some college websites up on 000webhost before and they are still there. I didnt have any issues. I know this is just anecdotal evidence of my personal experience.
When I was checking out neocities about page http://neocities.org/about It seems the business model is to pay for the server space with only donations. I was concerned that this service might not last so long.
If the resources are kept in check and the infrastructure is maintained in a sane manner, there's no reason why the service can't work well on donations alone. It's no Wikipedia after all, and certainly serving static pages would require far less overhead than server-side scripting (of course, this excludes logins/sessions, but considering how simple the backend is and sessions are limited there, it shouldn't require too much overhead either).
And I don't think the creator feels this is a "business" in any way. It's more like an ambitious hobby/public service.
I addressed in my post that there's not currently any multi-file upload and directory support and I consider this less of a limitation to work around but a feature request. See the Caveats section. I hope the neocities guys will change this limitation but it might be cost prohibitive at the moment.
