I have gone round and round in circles to try and find the best.... no.... SOME free hosting that has all the features I need. I've looked for days and still haven't found any hosts that tick the boxes below:
√ Very good uptime
√ A decent amount of disk space
√ A decent amount of bandwidth
√ PHP support
√ 1 (or more) MySQL Database
√ Perl
√ CGI
√ No ads
√ Email accounts
√ cPanel
√ Compatibility with a .co.uk domain via Nameservers
I am struggling to find a hosting with these features, so I thought I'd turn to you guys.
Have a look at Limewebs.com I use them for testing web sites. Excellent CS, no adds. FTP can be fiddly but overall very impressed and best of all its free...with limitations of course.
Have a look at Limewebs.com I use them for testing web sites. Excellent CS, no adds. FTP can be fiddly but overall very impressed and best of all its free...with limitations of course.
One mans meat is another mans poison but to me it looks ok, nice bandwidh and subdomains. Can't see if they have ads attached or not. Let us know how you get on with it. We can never have enough recommendations
I tried to join up with hostaider out of curiousity , geeeez what a pain.
You have to join the forum first then chose a domain name then sign up for hosting then you have to wait for the sql or something to catch up with your signing. pfffff
Reading their forum...not a lot of happy campers.
AND if you want extra things they insist you make 50 posts at least a month on their forum!!!
Never known a hosting company so hell bent on preventing new customers.
First impressions matter and sorry Hostaider I was not impressed. I wonder how much they pay to hosting comparison web sites ??!!
HostAider wouldn't let me sign up - it came up with loads of errors!
I went with HelioHost and it is very good! The problem is that I only have 250 MB of space, and on my site there is a Forum, an Ad Server (both takes 100MB), and ever user takes (average) 2 MB on the server! That means I will only be able to fit 50 users on my site! I hope that before that I move on to paid hosting (I'm gonna use X10Hosting).
I'm currently hosted with ipage.com, and I love them. They give me unlimited space, unlimited e-mail, unlimited bandwidth, and there is no charge on adding a domain unless you purchase from them.
Btw, not a single provider can offer 100% uptime. 99.9% is the standard right now, though with any provider it is, give or take a bit.
Edit: I did just notice that you are asking for free hosting. I personally look to freewebs for free hosting.
I found a interesting site that gives an indepth look at websites including hosting sites robtex.com
However as most people do know,never trust one site for important information
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