Free Hosting

[Jason]

Free hosting can be ad supported or it can be a situation where the hosting company owner hopes a percentage of the users will upgrade to premium. Anyway, who has tried free hosting and where did you try it? What was your experience? Do you feel it's worth it?

 

[Ravenfreak]

I used free hosting in the past when I was still new to owning a website. My first forum was on Forumotion, but I wanted to understand how to deal with uploading files to a server and going down the self hosting route. I used 000Webhost and x10 hosting before, though 000Webhost was hacked shortly after I decided to give them a try and my email ended up on a pastebin... Now I don't really trust free hosts.

 

[Jason]

I used free hosting in the past when I was still new to owning a website. My first forum was on Forumotion, but I wanted to understand how to deal with uploading files to a server and going down the self hosting route. I used 000Webhost and x10 hosting before, though 000Webhost was hacked shortly after I decided to give them a try and my email ended up on a pastebin... Now I don't really trust free hosts.

Forumotion seems pretty good at the moment. However, obviously there isn't as much freedom as on a self-host. However, for just a simple forum it isn't too bad. Also, it is mobile friendly and 90 percent or something of web users are on mobile.

 

[Arantor]

No service is truly free, someone or something is paying for it somewhere along the line - and the age old truism holds: if you're not paying for the product, you probably are the product.

(That said, *products* can exist for free, because people can conclude that their time being exchanged in labour for the production of a product is worth it.)

 

[dahLabdo]

20i.com offers free hosting on all available domains! Great for basic basic needs. Give them a look over! Definitely recommend.