Comments on: Free Hosting – no ads, your own domain, PHP, MySQL and more!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:04:37 +0000

Good to hear that I’m not the only one with a good opinion of Freehostia.com. I’m impressed they haven’t been inundated with people overloading their systems to breaking point. Most other free hosts I’ve come across have generally started out well, but over time they seem to nose dive in quality/service due to overloading of their services. Anything’s got to be better than those hideous Geocities accounts that people still seem to get sucked into – me included until about 18 months ago.

By: Matthew Poer

Matthew Poer — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:28:09 +0000

Indeed, I am a FreeHostia.com user. I use the free account. I rarely have troubles, but there is some down time. You get what you pay for with it… decent bandwidth and space, 1 mysql, PHP enabled, mail, etc. One thing you do *not* get from FreeHostia (for free, at least) is awstats/webalizer type data. I have had to install the WordPress Stats plugin for that.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:14:35 +0000

I found an example of a freehostia.com hosted Wordpress blog in case anyones interested …
http://matthewpoer.freehostia.com/wordpress/

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:11:20 +0000

http://www.freehostia.com/ offer free web hosting too. But they have none of the draw backs (that I’m aware of) that have been mentioned above.

250 MB disk space
5 GB/month data transfer
Hosting for 2 domains and 10 subdomains
CPanel
1 MySQL database with 10 MB space
Full FTP access

I tried it in about September 2006, and it worked flawlessly. The only drawback I can see is that your MySQL database is limited to 10 MB which could be a bit small for some sites.

I don’t use it now as I’ve bought my own hosting from Hostgator.com which is massively better, albeit inifinitely more expensive.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:00:40 +0000

Hi niku,
I never heard of 110mb.com. I checked it out, and it seems interesting. When I have a chance I’ll set up a test site and see how it goes. If it works and is legit, I’ll write a review here. Thanks for your input!

By: niku

niku — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:06:03 +0000

thanks for the post.
Any other suggestions? how about 110mb.com?

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:48:31 +0000

Thanks Robert – it’s important to know about the disabled mail(). That’s a pretty serious drawback, especially for blogs where keeping up with blogs and posts is pretty essential!

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:38:44 +0000

An update for you, I just learned that the mail() function is disabled on those hosting accounts. So, I agree with you. It is useful solely for test and demo sites. New adopters will have too much trouble learning phpMyAdmin to be able to change their password, should they lose it, for instance.

I still like the service for some tasks, but wouldn’t suggest it for trying to develop a working blog or small community site. I say that because subscribe to comments and posts, for instance, won’t work.