www.x10hosting.com
No ads at all. All you have to do is log in to their site (where you see your account status/info) once a month and they keep it up.
Not OP, but this seems very appealing due to its claim of unmetered bandwidth. Do you have any experience with the amount of traffic your site can receive in practice? Obviously if I had something that was getting a huge amount of traffic I'd use a paid host, but this seems like a good option until then.
www.x10hosting.com
No ads at all. All you have to do is log in to their site (where you see your account status/info) once a month and they keep it up.
Not OP, but this seems very appealing due to its claim of unmetered bandwidth. Do you have any experience with the amount of traffic your site can receive in practice? Obviously if I had something that was getting a huge amount of traffic I'd use a paid host, but this seems like a good option until then.
If it sounds too good to be true....
Not OP, but this seems very appealing due to its claim of unmetered bandwidth. Do you have any experience with the amount of traffic your site can receive in practice? Obviously if I had something that was getting a huge amount of traffic I'd use a paid host, but this seems like a good option until then.
I haven't a clue how much in a given time frame, however, they will throttle you if you are receiving a lot of traffic (the definition of a lot is loose). If you have a popular site idea, try it out. I'm interested to know when they cut back on your resource usage. There is a database limit of 2, if you are doing any work like that.
I would not choose free web hosting services. They have so many limitations such as advertisements on your home page, small space and traffic. Also, and that's more serious, many of them disappear after a year and that is a justification for search engines not to index pages belonging to members of free hosting services. Bear in mind that, if the company closes its doors, there's a good chance you'd loose all your files.
Bear in mind that, if the company closes its doors, there's a good chance you'd loose all your files.
Unless you have archives. Which any half-serious website admin will have plenty of, in theory at least.
But yes, seriously, free web hosting services invariably suck in one way or another. If you're looking to set up something serious, you will generally want to go with paid hosting (there are some pretty cheap offers which are infinitely better than gambling with free hosting providers) unless you have specific needs. For throwaway stuff, though, I guess they may be good enough.
“If I understand the standard right it is legal and safe to do this but the resulting value could be anything.”
But yes, seriously, free web hosting services invariably suck in one way or another. If you're looking to set up something serious, you will generally want to go with paid hosting (there are some pretty cheap offers which are infinitely better than gambling with free hosting providers) unless you have specific needs. For throwaway stuff, though, I guess they may be good enough.
They are great for getting other's opinion about stuff, but not good for any kind of long term hosting.
Just finished up with a PHP database ( non SQL ) experiment, and with in a couple months should have a Php & JavaScript hybrid game going alpha - all on free sites.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
They have so many limitations such as advertisements on your home page, small space and traffic.
Which is why I recommended X10Hosting. They don't place ads on your pages, I haven't had issues with space, considering this is my limit: Disk Space Usage 47.55 / ? MB. Databases can't go over like 1 or 3 GB, I can't remember which, but at that point you really should be paying for hosting somewhere. You have a limit to SQL databases you can create (MySQL or PostGreSQL), however, they don't limit table amounts. Traffic isn't an issue unless you are getting huge amounts, and again, at that point you should be paying for hosting anyway. Their data transfer says unmetered, however, they will tend to throttle since it is on a shared server, but only if you go over a certain limit.
