000webhost - Your Thoughts

[Jason]

Have you used it? What is the reputation? if you had it, did you upgrade?

 

[Arantor]

It’s better than it used to be. I used to use it as my benchmark for ”most rubbish host that SMF will be installed on”, as a parallel to GoDaddy.

But like everything else, you get what you pay for.

 

[TwitchisMental]

I'll be honest, I'm surprised they are even around still haha. They are not the most stable web host in my experience that's for sure .

 

[Ravenfreak]

I used them in the past when I was still new to self hosting. This was right around the time there was a data breach and my password ended up in a paste bin... They're better with their security now, but I still wouldn't use them if I needed to use free hosting for whatever reason. There's better free options like x10.

 

[Empire]

Used it back in 2012 as part of my collage class - Had to make a simple website and then had to upload the site for all people to see and at the time it was CRAP, since then I never used it. I rather stay away from free.

 

[Jason]

Well, it's specifically not that good so people will upgrade. Can you blame them?

 

[Arantor]

Yes but the 'free' service is *so* awful I never wanted to trust them with actual money for actual service.

 

[zoldos]

The name itself sounds like malware. LOL

 

[MrChris]

Personally never used them. when I see free hosting, I hope they don't mix the shared hosting with paid customers. It would make sense as to why they would be unstable did they put there free customers on

 

[Jason]

I am playing around with it now, but I have no intention of building a serious site. Anyway, WordPress takes up half the memory from the start, so it's quite obvious that resources would run out soon, but otherwise, I don't see any problems with it - other than no script uploader (aside from WordPress), but I'm sure you can upload forum software the rough way.

 

[Empire]

000webhost is perfect for one page really!

 

[Jason]

000webhost is perfect for one page really!

Joking aside, you could make quite a few static pages (non-blog) I think.

 

[Empire]

Joking aside, you could make quite a few static pages (non-blog) I think.

Yeah, but then like what LOL

 

[Jason]

Yeah, but then like what LOL

If you're good at HTML and CSS, some awesome stuff could be made.

 

[Arantor]

If you're doing static only pages, save yourself the hassle and shove it on S3 with CloudFront and be done with it.

 

[Empire]

If you're good at HTML and CSS, some awesome stuff could be made.

Yeah, I just have no use for it to create any pages at the moment lol

 

[Jason]

Do you all feel Hostinger, the parent company, has good stuff? They seem to have very budget hosting, but you have to buy in advance to get the deals, but I can't blame them for that.

 

[Darth Cognus]

From my limited experience hostinger will do in a pinch but is not a substitute for a more serious project. Maybe it gets better at higher pay grades? Dunno.

 

[Jason]

From my limited experience hostinger will do in a pinch but is not a substitute for a more serious project. Maybe it gets better at higher pay grades? Dunno.

Why is that the case?

 

[Arantor]

As ever, the axiom holds: pay peanuts, get monkeys. As in, if you pay for bargain basement bare bones quality, that's *all* you can expect. You might find the unicorn that'll be better but you can't expect that.

Cheap as chips is usually not where you go if you want quality.