Why, of course free things will keep disappearing.
What are they going to do? Stay?
There's a very limited amount of flat advertising money out there, most of which has dried up or been allotted already. Soon, most DotComs, Free ISPs, and other imperialists are going to find that they have no real source of income. My previous ISP already met this fate, as they were a pay-once-and-never-again flat rate service.
Few enterprises that deliver that which is normally paid for remain profitable internally for long.
While you're certainly entitled to some quality of service, given the monthly fees for broadband service, the lesson I've learned is that you should never host your webpage on your ISP's webservers anyway. Either quota is too small, limited content support, or otherwise. You should be able to depend on your ISP for net service, but I don't think they make a perogative of rigid maintenance on their webservers. If I was a RoadRunner marketing person, I certainly wouldn't assume the personal web page hosting part to be anything more than a mere enticement.
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Why, of course free things will keep disappearing. What are they going to do? Stay? There's a very limited amount of flat advertising money out there, most of which has dried up or been allotted already. Soon, most DotComs, Free ISPs, and other imperialists are going to find that they have no real source of income. My previous ISP already met this fate, as they were a pay-once-and-never-again flat rate service. Few enterprises that deliver that which is normally paid for remain profitable internally for long.
While you're certainly entitled to some quality of service, given the monthly fees for broadband service, the lesson I've learned is that you should never host your webpage on your ISP's webservers anyway. Either quota is too small, limited content support, or otherwise. You should be able to depend on your ISP for net service, but I don't think they make a perogative of rigid maintenance on their webservers. If I was a RoadRunner marketing person, I certainly wouldn't assume the personal web page hosting part to be anything more than a mere enticement.