Dont sign up at 5gbfree.com

[TommyGermany]

Hello,

5gbfree.com is sold, and since this day (2 weeks ago) is the login of a lot os accounts not possible, the MySql-Server is down now over 24hrs, a lot ppl payd for ad-removing, and now the got new ads..., its horrible. No support, no answers in the support forums.

Thats the reason im here, to find a new one.

[cnhacker]

that's the way freehosting goes.

[parisdns]

Welcome to the FREE hosting IT !

[Calinax]

Make daily backups, if you're allowed, or as often as possible.

You can't even complain to free hosts for deleting your data as you're getting something for free.

[labyrinth]

shall I turn it's status into death?
It was online in my webhosting list

[Entombster]

Make it About To Die :)

[krakjoe]

Make daily backups, if you're allowed, or as often as possible.

You can't even complain to free hosts for deleting your data as you're getting something for free.

What a ----in load, any host, free or paid assumes responsibility of the content on their server, legally and actually. I do hope you're not a free host with that attitude ...

[Calinax]

lol....Well, I am not a free host.

Though, I'm thinking to start that. It'll bac backed up as well, don't worry, but there will be only few users accepted.

[James]

Hehe, like an exclusive members club eh?

[Stanley08]

Dam i h8 hosts like that , just a shame they dont tell anyone before they do stuff like this

[KwiX Dennis]

Did they atleast advised their members before selling their company?

I think that would be good practice to tell your members that some changes are to be made soon.

[Tatzel]

Did they atleast advised their members before selling their company?

I think that would be good practice to tell your members that some changes are to be made soon.

But they aren't in the hosting business per se. More, the host reselling business.
There are a number of people who just cram a box full of unselected, unsupervised, unsupported users, then sell it off on the first unsuspecting buyer who hopes to make a quick buck out out of slapping ads on an "established" host, nevermind that the original hostees' agreement promised no ads forever :fangel:

Time and again. Same person purportedly selling "sound and thriving" hosts for alleged health or lack of time reasons, when in the last couple months or so they've already setup the next host with which to repeat exactly the same trick, over and over.
Typical example : http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/auction/4542

[Bmxdudde1100]

I found that site a few days ago and signed up, never got my confirmation email anyway. I feel sorry for all the people that were hosting good sites on there.

[Robbeh]

Hello,

5gbfree.com is sold, and since this day (2 weeks ago) is the login of a lot os accounts not possible, the MySql-Server is down now over 24hrs, a lot ppl payd for ad-removing, and now the got new ads..., its horrible. No support, no answers in the support forums.

Thats the reason im here, to find a new one.

Hey!

I just came across your post. My name's Rob, the original owner of 5GBFree.

You're right, I sold the site in good faith to a much larger company, thinking they would look after it properly (I can't tell you who for legal reasons, but you will almost certainly have heard of them unless you live in a cave).

As you mentioned, they pretty much ruined it and wouldn't sell it back to me until now (I tried really hard, most of my emails got ignored). I've now brought it back and am trying to revive 5GBFree - it would be really great if you came onboard again :)

Cheers,
Rob

[TaoPhoenix]

Make it About To Die :)

Gauntlet Arcade Game, is that you?

[TaoPhoenix]

Hey!

I just came across your post. My name's Rob, the original owner of 5GBFree.

You're right, I sold the site in good faith to a much larger company, thinking they would look after it properly (I can't tell you who for legal reasons, but you will almost certainly have heard of them unless you live in a cave).

As you mentioned, they pretty much ruined it and wouldn't sell it back to me until now (I tried really hard, most of my emails got ignored). I've now brought it back and am trying to revive 5GBFree - it would be really great if you came onboard again :)

Cheers,
Rob

Really gutsy if you can pull it off properly.

I have real doubts about "build a free host for X months and resell it". There's a couple of people here who specialize in that. The result seems to be "let's hope 1% of the clients stay".

[Robbeh]

Yeah; it does seem there are people who just buy a box and let literally anyone sign up for a site - the majority of signups are basically porn or illegal activities like file sharing but they don't care as it all adds to their numbers.

Then they wait a few months, sell, and bam start another one. Drives me nuts.

[Seraphim]

Yeah; it does seem there are people who just buy a box and let literally anyone sign up for a site - the majority of signups are basically porn or illegal activities like file sharing but they don't care as it all adds to their numbers.

Then they wait a few months, sell, and bam start another one. Drives me nuts.

More than half of these signups aren't even human. The signups on mine are manually controlled- it confirms the email of the signup through some clever scripting, but then on confirmation it emails me for review and manual creation of the actual account.

Some of the 'signups' that get through the email confirmation, since I haven't perfected the bot-proofing yet, are really things that I would not recommend anyone host ever even on an offshore service. These are being filed, and the IPs are usually blocked to prevent further attempts.

[Robbeh]

Yeah, I'm getting a lot of auto signups too. As you say I think the only real way to handle it is with human intervention (as you're doing).

It is dammed annoying though - it takes FOREVER!

[TSO]

It is dammed annoying though - it takes FOREVER!

Maybe. But high quality isn't easy.

[Robbeh]

Oh yep, totally agree - you have to do it, otherwise you end up with a server full of porn & torrent files!

If you want my formula, I drop all accounts into an excel spreadsheet and then normalise their disk and bandwidth usage to a percentage of the average. I then divide the disk space used by the bandwidth used (as spam sites tend to have low disk space but high bandwidth) and I assign that value to each site as it's "spam score". It's not perfect and you can't delete sites on the basis of it, but it gives you an early indication of the likely spam sites.

Hope it helps :)

[TSO]

Oh yep, totally agree - you have to do it, otherwise you end up with a server full of porn & torrent files!

If you want my formula, I drop all accounts into an excel spreadsheet and then normalise their disk and bandwidth usage to a percentage of the average. I then divide the disk space used by the bandwidth used (as spam sites tend to have low disk space but high bandwidth) and I assign that value to each site as it's "spam score". It's not perfect and you can't delete sites on the basis of it, but it gives you an early indication of the likely spam sites.

Hope it helps :)

That's a pretty neat idea.

[Robbeh]

It would be if I got the formula right - it's bandwidth divided by disk space, not the other way around!

Feel free to use it :)

[Robbeh]

Really gutsy if you can pull it off properly.

I have real doubts about "build a free host for X months and resell it". There's a couple of people here who specialize in that. The result seems to be "let's hope 1% of the clients stay".

Yeah; there are LOADS of people who do that (check flippa.com and there's always a few on there for sale!).

It seems to be going okay though, and I'm intending on keeping it - last time around I sold it to a BIG company who I thought would do a better job than I could alone.

The only problem is when you search for 5GBFree on Google the title of this forum thread is result 2 lol

[TaoPhoenix]

What a ----in load, any host, free or paid assumes responsibility of the content on their server, legally and actually. I do hope you're not a free host with that attitude ...

Legally could be all over the map. That wonderful thing called TOS.

Actually is a maybe, because it affects subjective impressions.