Frihost
Hosting a website for Free, is always a joke. Something has to be paid to the host, either money or time or ads. Frihost falls into the second category i.e. time. It provides web-hosting absolutely free of cost without ads, however, requires the member’s time,i.e,the user has to be active in frihost forum, to host his site.
Frihost, employs a point scheme, based on which when the user posts in their forum, a points will be roughly calculated based on the content and it would be added to the user’s score. Everyday, This user’s score reduces by one point. The user has to ensure that their point doesnot go less than -10, and be actively participating in the frihost forum.
For a free host provider, Frihost is simply the best hosting service. It would rank One in my list of free host providers. It is exceptional in QoS, Features (Cron), Server availability, Support Forum, and in various other respects.
Its almost a year back, I have been a active member of frihost forum, to host my site(smartpandian.com) , but later I realised that most of my time was being spent in keeping my account active in frihost, than keeping my site(smartpandian.com) active. Though, Frihost is my second most active forum while my top visited forum being Orkut, I got bored off with frihost and I moved my site to another free hosting www.awardspace.com and now, finally move to paid hosting from Ixwebhosting.com.
If you had a plan to try out free web hosting, I would suggest, frihost.com and awardspace.com.
Awardspace, a Free Reward
Awardspace…
How did I find this?
Same way as kwikphp..
Advantages
It holds all the advantages as kwikPHP does and sometimes even more
For example Awardspace is without any ads on the website.
Server was up running 24/7 .
(Yes I am testing it with the small expense of huge 5GB bandwidth 
)
So.. I have migrated from kwikphp to awardspace.
Disadvantages..
Poor design of Control Panel and with lots of advertisement in it…
I was happy with Awardspace. and It was on the way to Awardspace, I come across another one webhosting service which is the worst one in my experience…and it’s 789MB.com
How Did I find this?
My Friend Ananthmv.info…
Advantages:
I dont think there is one…
Disadvantages:
Its really funny about this free hosting. Server went down every weekend.
even 789mb.com was down, that’s the lighter side of this disaster..
Finally, I deleted my account with out using any of its feature.. Actually they did not let me test their service.. So my rating of the last four free webhosting service as..
- Awardspace.com
- Kwikphp.com
- Please, Dont go for 110MB.com / 789MB. It Really ****s. (May be they become sooper dooper in future)
Though I felt settled in Awardspace, I was currently working on another free web hosting for the last one week. It seems to be better than Awardspace. Wait for my review.
kwikphp
The first Free PHP web hosting service where smartpandian.com stayed.
How come a web hosting service is free?
This is a simple question with wide known answer. Earn money through advertisement. kwikphp is no exception for that. It is similar to Yahoo Geocities. The only advantage is that, the advertisement appears at the bottom of the page. And From the client side, this can be easily blocked with Firefox Adblock Plus..
How did I find this website?
Google search.. “Free Php Hosting”
I found this great link that has review of almost all free web hosting..
http://www.free-webhosts.com/
Lets See the Advantages of Kwikphp..
1) As of My knowledge, the server never let me down.
2) Support center is good. They answered all the queries within a day.
but it seems Seems like outsourcing.. Yoursupportgroup.com…
3) Can host lots of domains and sub domains.
4) FTP connection superb (I would FireFtp it)
Disadvantages
1)advertisement.. this is the only disadvantage that i felt compared to other free host like 110mb, but the service, auto installers, tools is very very better than 110mb.com
2) No help page.. FAQ is not updated.. Support Forum seems to be idle.
Anyway, though this service is good, there should be some other free hosting that should be better than this.. I hope that would do without ads..
You might wonder, how come without ads ? any way, I have already found one..
Now smartpandian.com is staying there..
Lets see about it in next blog…
110mb.com
To enjoy the real freedom, just pay for it.
Lets see feaures (free) of 110Mb.com…
- Upload limit 5MB
- 5GB Bandwidth
- 20GB Space
- MySQL 5 Support
- PhP support
- Lots of auto installer tools
- Immediate activation of account
- Add on domain.
- No Ads
- Your ads allowed
Now the negative(Pay) for each of this points, in order
- Upload limit 1MB.. Outside advertising is different from whats inside..
- MySQL support .. No PhpMyAdmin.. instead 110Mb’s 110DBManager, its worser than average phpmyadmin interface.
- PHP Support .. Mysqli extension is disabled.
- Older version of auto Installers…
- add on domain and subdomain points to same location.. so obviously speed of page loading will be delayed.
- Server went down on last Sunday 22 Apr, 2007
- Domain : Name server went down for more than three days in last week.
NameServer down is great comparing to web host down, as I have domain name points to alternate name servers of different webhost.. from which the page loads properly..
This brings a better solution in free web hosting. i.e., when a web host fails, if they can drop their name server also… But things are not going to be so easy.
Free PHP Web Hosting
There is nothing available for free unless you pay, either by quantity or quality.Its been two months in search for the good, free php web hosting. During these journey, i have come across couple of webs hosting. Here in my blog, you can read all the reviews about it under the category “Web Hosting”. If you re looking for one.. just read on.. before trying one…
