Is Zendfree down (again) ? [Archive]

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Copyfight

January 24th, 2009, 21:14

Hi all.

I've an account on Zendfree, but I can't reach neither zendfree.com nor my own website since some days: are they down?

Does anybody know how to contact them?
I sent them an email some days ago, but they still haven't answered me.

Is anyone else having similar issues?

Greetings, Giovanni

stonerocket

January 25th, 2009, 06:05

pageload timeout on http://zendfree.com/

I remember seing that the previous owner sold zendfree, so at a guess I imagine the new owner is struggling.

TSO

January 25th, 2009, 09:35

This is a real shame to see. :( As I understand, Zendfree had grown quite large.

Copyfight

January 25th, 2009, 13:29

Zendfree was a good free hosting service, until the owner was hamster (which should be registered to this forum, IIRC). I used it for a while with not so much problems.

Now, ZF is having a really bad uptime and now I think I'll move my files to another hosting service, as soon as I can reach them via FTP. :(

Moreover, traffic details about zendfree.com (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/zendfree.com) seems not to be so good lately.

justincase

January 25th, 2009, 15:40

Yea, I have a site hosted there, but I can't even get my data now, can anyone tell me who to contact?

veightar

January 26th, 2009, 06:38

Yea, zendfree is down i think forever since hamster sold it. But what really bothers me much is the way the site was shut down. For all I know, if a web host like that is about to shut down, all members receive an email to back up and download their files. But all that hamster did was saying the site has a new owner and thus is yet to see if he might work with him or not.

From the information about the aution, hamster listed the site for sale at sitepoint forum on Sun Nov 02 2008. If you need more information about this aution,
go to http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/49810. So I think for now, our files and data are gone forever. If you've got sitepoint forum account, you can visit the link above and maybe message hamster for any other information.

hamster

January 26th, 2009, 08:05

If you want information, I can disclose some, but only to a certain extent as the new owner might not like me doing so.

ZendFree is now having troubles with the LimeStoneNetworks datacenter due to the numerous abuse complaints it had received regarding ZendFree.

I cannot disclose any more information. The rest is up to the new owner of ZendFree to decide.

F.Y.I: I have not been affiliated with ZendFree since the sale in early November. I have only been giving advice to the new owner whenever he seeked any.

yifanlu

January 26th, 2009, 16:22

dbbrock1

January 26th, 2009, 17:13

Thats a shame that a free web host cant even run anymore without constant threat of being shut down because of some idiot users.

I am so glad I am not allowing email on my service...however I guess you still have to deal with irc bots, ddos, etc.

Copyfight

January 26th, 2009, 21:20

hamster, can I ask you why did you sold zendfree.com for $500, when you was earning more than $200 ($350-$135) each month with it?

Moreover, were you earning only $350/month with a 1,500,000 page views/month domain, using AdSense?

Anyway, thanks for your information!

hamster

January 26th, 2009, 21:57

Who said I sold ZendFree for $500?

If the discussion turns into a "sale of ZendFree discussion", I will close this thread.

Secret

January 27th, 2009, 10:35

Btw, who really owns ZendFree right now?

hamster

January 27th, 2009, 11:52

He goes by the name of Alex.

He doesn't have much of a public figure as of now despite my advice to him to build one.

Secret

January 27th, 2009, 12:07

Alex in FWS is ... ? :)

Copyfight

January 27th, 2009, 12:34

Sorry, hamster, I saw "Highest Bid: $500.00", but I didn't noticed the "Reserve Not Reached". Maybe I should wear glasses. 8-) Please forget my question.

Zendfree.com is still unreachable, I'm losing my hopes to get back my files and the db.

Erizo

January 27th, 2009, 15:19

Zendfree.com is still unreachable, I'm losing my hopes to get back my files and the db.

That's why you keep offsite backups. :beer:

Copyfight

January 27th, 2009, 21:44

touché! :-)

stonerocket

January 29th, 2009, 15:25

That's why you keep offsite backups. :beer:

I would certainly reccomend anyone who uses any free hosting of data make regular backups, I would also insist you do it even if your on paid service.

Secret

January 29th, 2009, 16:01

I would certainly reccomend anyone who uses any free hosting of data make regular backups, I would also insist you do it even if your on paid service.

...and even if you own your own VPS/dedicated server... Trust me, bad things like HDD crash happens...

satishgaire

January 29th, 2009, 18:44

...and even if you own your own VPS/dedicated server... Trust me, bad things like HDD crash happens...

lol, unlike me who provides raid service with all my vps and dedi and all hostings :D even if server crashes or what ever. your data is safe :D

SC-Daniel

January 29th, 2009, 20:08

lol, unlike me who provides raid service with all my vps and dedi and all hostings :D even if server crashes or what ever. your data is safe :D

I hate to say it... RAID is NOT a means of backup/true data protection. If a disk in the array fails, it is not uncommon for the entire array to become corrupted.

Mooncreek

January 29th, 2009, 21:18

:typing: I, like so many others, are extremely disappointed with the disappearance of Zendfree this month. As far as I can tell it's been one week and counting. I have already transfered my site to Geocities, which is not so great because of the limitations, but at least they are dependable and free.

Fortunately, I made a back-up of my site the last time ZF went down and although it isn't completely up to date, that action has saved me hours of work. I hope to be able to get my most recently created information off of Zendfree soon and close my account permanently. I hate to do it and it was fun while it lasted, but I need a reliable host since my site is depended upon and generates income for me and others.

Does anyone know if and when Zendfree will ever be back up?:confused:

Thanks!

Copyfight

January 30th, 2009, 11:45

ZF was good for me because it was cost-free, ad-free and Drupal worked fine.

I've just moved my files to Zymic, it's cost-free, ad-free, but it seems there are a lot of disabled PHP functions, safe_mode is On, memory_limit is only 16MB, and so on.

I'll have to continue to look around for a ZF-like free hosting service: any hint?

hamster

January 30th, 2009, 20:59

Well Copyfight, you can't ask for hints here because it'd be offtopic.

If you want to request one, post a new thread in the Free Hosting Requests section. If you want recommendations, post a new thread in the Free Hosting Discussions section. :)

bibfor

January 31st, 2009, 12:08

I also had an account. I did do backups though, so i would only lose about 1 week of data - but still, it sucks. I'd lose some crucial data too.

I'd would be really happy if i could get that back. Anyone?

As for the Zendfree service, i guess i learned my lesson: Never assume a free webhost to be reliable enough.

bibfor

February 18th, 2009, 16:23

Is there any news on this? Will it never come back?