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Updated Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 at 12:12pm

Free Text Host

The Free Text Host website is a new project by Dagon Design. The site allows visitors to host text without having to sign up or give any personal information. One possible usage for this is to host code snippets, but it can be used for just about anything really. Options include the ability to enter a password to allow you to edit or delete your text, and the choice to use preformatted text and make links clickable.

Try it out

Free Text Host

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Changelog

02-23-10 – Fixed several bugs with BBCode such as font size, color, quotes, and more (make sure you enable the BBCode option).
10-07-09 – Added a view count to the bottom of the pages.
06-24-09 – Support for BBCode has been added. Just click the option to enable it for your page. A listing of the supported tags is given.
08-12-08 – Added a ‘Viewing password’ option. If you set one, it is required for your text to be viewed.
10-22-07 – Option added to make links clickable, and to enable/disable preformatted output. You can also now edit the text with the edit/delete password.
10-20-07 – First public release

Usage

Just enter your text and the verification code (to help prevent spam) and you will be given a randomly generated URL that only you will know.

There is currently a 50000 character limit. I will see how this works before I raise it higher.

Options

If you choose to use this option, you can enter an admin password when submitting your text. This password will allow you to make changes or delete your page. If you do not include an admin password, the page cannot be modified.

A viewing password can also be set, which if used, will require visitors to know the password to view your text.

Preformatted text can be selected, which means extra whitespace and linebreaks will appear exactly as you type them, and a fixed width font will be used.

Links in your text can be made clickable (turned into actual html links). These links will contain the nofollow attribute.

BBCode is also now supported (if the option is selected). A list of currently supported BBCode tags can be found here: http://freetexthost.com/bbcode.php

Questions/Answers

Privacy Information

Only one cookie is used on the site, and it is for the verification code. The only information it contains is the code itself, and it is used to help prevent spam.

This site does not use any Javascript or Flash, and it has no tracking or logging features.

Is my hosted text visible by others?

Only if you give them the URL, or they guess it. The URL contains a 10 digit random alphanumeric ID, which allows for up to 3656158440062976 unique IDs, so it would be hard to guess.

The hosted text pages also use the noindex, nofollow, and noarchive robot directives to prevent search engine robots from indexing them.

Can I print my text?

Yes. If you print your page, it will only print the text itself. Everything else will be removed from the page.

Can I edit/delete my text?

Yes. When you enter your text, you have an option for a password. If you enter one, you can use it to edit or delete your page later.

What if I lose my URL?

Then it is lost. This is by design.

Disclaimer

While the generated pages are relatively private unless you give out the URL, Dagon Design cannot guarantee that no one will see your text by guessing the URL, etc.

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40 Comments on “Free Text Host”

40

Admin

2-23-10 4:11PM

Update: February 23, 2010

Several BBCode bugs have been fixed. Font color and size now works, as well as the proper display of quote boxes, and a few other adjustments.

To answer a few questions:

- There are no future plans to have any type of login, accounts, or other ways to track your entries on the site. It is meant to be anonymous with no registration.

- While I appreciate feature suggestions, in order to keep the site simple, I will only add things that I think everyone would benefit from.

- To everyone who continues to use freetexthost.com – thanks!
39

Athena

2-21-10 10:20AM

I would love to be able to join and be able to store all of my page’s urls.
38

Anonymous

2-13-10 2:50PM

Free text hosting is a godsend. You’re all a credit to the Internet. Never change.
37

D

2-8-10 6:44AM

Very good script however, love the concept and the idea, comes in handy.
36

D

2-8-10 6:43AM

Would be nice if we could have user-accounts, as to have a list of the files we uploaded, that away incase we forget to set a admin password we can still delete it later, or view all files we’ve uploaded in a list.
35

Celine

1-21-10 4:09AM

Very useful, especially for HTML code purposes and homework emergencies. Such a great site!
34

osama

1-19-10 6:39AM

Thanks
This site
Very cool
And useful to us
33

-21grams

12-3-09 2:59AM

You’re doing a great job, Free Text Host has proven to be very handy.
I’d like to report a bug if I may
(I went through this page and I see no mention of it)
Although listed in the Supported BBCode Tags, the color tag is NOT working.
(it’s either that or I’m doing something totally wrong)
Could you please fix it?
Thank you
32

ganool

11-25-09 8:05PM

its amazing script..
can i get the script?
i want to have it my own..
tell me how can i get the script…
thx
31

Pimis

11-7-09 8:55PM

hi i think it would be really great if you could have a view limit to the text. it would be very handy to the work that i do. Please concider it to the next update, Thanks!
30

David

10-23-09 2:51PM

This is pretty neat. But it is amusing how people want you to keep adding more and more for this simple, free idea.

I am not sure how to put it to the best use, but I will be back.
Vielen Dank!
29

Friends

10-8-09 10:18AM

Vielen Dank für diesen Vorschlag. Ich schicke Dir einen Gruß aus Deutschland.

Thanks for the suggestion. I send you regards from Germany.
28

Admin

10-7-09 7:05PM

Luis: A visitor counter is a good idea. I will add that.

john: There is no API for the site.

agoramaster: It was made from scratch in PHP. The code is not currently available
27

agoramaster

10-2-09 2:36AM

if it is possible, please describe aboub freetexthost.com codding. if it is based on an CMS, where I can download it
26

Luis

8-31-09 8:50PM

A visit counter of the text would be nice or to have the option of display one.
25

john

7-28-09 4:21AM

Cant u provide api for this..so that i can use it in my application
24

Greg

6-25-09 8:39AM

it’s such a good thing!
i hope your website will be known all around the world!

I think you could had a category like “why are you using freetexthost?”
for me, it’s for my “rapport de stage” (training document in english??), I edit it at work and at home to. and the limk is in my webmail, so it’s easy for me to edit it wherever i am, i don’t need any usb key

I hope my comment is usefull.

Greg (a french user )
23

Admin

6-24-09 9:45PM

BBCode is now supported at freetexthost.com – just click the option to enable it for your page. A listing of supported tags is also given.
22

Admin

6-16-09 9:07PM

I did not mean I would change it so things get automatically deleted. I do not ever plan on doing that.

I meant that you would just have the option of setting this if you wanted to.

I am still planning ideas for the site as well.
21

Greg

6-11-09 2:06PM

No, I’m not agree with Mark!!!
Because text files are not heavy, so it will be not very usefull for you, and for us, if we don’t read our text during 3 month, deleted? oh no! Please stay like now, or, if you want, add BBcode, why not!
But please, don’t delete files, i’m sure you hate when you find what you were looking for, and finally, the content is deleted… please i’m in love with your service, don’t change it…
thank you for reading, and excuse my poor english, i’m french.
thx
20

levent

4-29-09 10:14AM

i really love it.plz dont shut it down sooner.
19

Stef

4-17-09 12:11PM

and ability to remove “delete” button from site
sry for double post…
18

Stef

4-17-09 12:09PM

enable BBCode?
17

Harold Adams

4-2-09 5:35AM

Is it possible to get the script without the advertisements?
16

Admin

9-15-08 7:21PM

Mark: Good ideas I will keep them in mind for the next update.
15

Canada Flowers

9-12-08 8:27AM

Very nice tool
14

Mark

9-11-08 6:49PM

I’d like to be able to return the random page name to the pool explicitly rather than leave it there for millions of years (or when this service ceases – whichever is sooner! )

re:”Option to make pages auto-delete after a given period of time”
Unless you make this period really short (1month) by default and impose some modest upper limit(3years say) for an explicit user setting, the feature might feel too transient or become populated mostly with never visited pages (no click-revenue)
13

Admin

8-12-08 9:50PM

Update
There is now an option for a ‘viewing password’. If you set one, visitors will have to enter it to view your text.
12

wertwert

8-8-08 5:04PM

Awesome work… but… please raise the character limit higher!
11

rui

7-9-08 7:25PM

Ok, this is a very nice programm, with nice protection feature do edit it, but it would be also interesting to have a passwort before you can read the message, because in lots of browers the Link is Yet available in the cache and if an other person uses the PC he can easily get the link and read the message afterwards. ok this would be a good idea to protect the messages with a password in the beginning, before someone reads it.
10

Ken Bolt

7-5-08 7:55AM

How would I use this in conjunction with an ecommerce site plus an article site and a blog site? As a very low level tech person, I do not understand how I can use this tool and what benefits would be available?
9

Thanatus

5-7-08 11:37AM

Very nice tool!!

=)

maybe option to put email adress and get the page link sent (to us and/or others) it could be a nice feature too.

Keep up
8

QuMoe

4-11-08 2:09AM

Very Nice to use it. I like password protected function too. Nicely done. Thanks alot for this little program.

QuMoe(Myanmar)
7

Mitchell

4-6-08 11:36PM

Very cool idea.

I’d love to snag a copy of this script when it’s available, that’s for sure!

Awesome work, man!
5

Vincent Parker

1-29-08 1:04AM

I love it. Simple and easy to use.
4

gregoryo

1-28-08 2:28PM

It’s very minimalistic and useful too. Awesome.
3

gregoryo

1-28-08 2:27PM

I love it. Thank you/
2

Barthalamule

1-27-08 6:14PM

Fantastic, wonderful, exactly what we are looking for. Any word on a final download/purchase?
1

Ryan the New Zealand Website Designer

1-2-08 4:17PM

This is a good idea. I like the password protected editting too.