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Most Important Free Hosting Features
- Thread starter TSO
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The ones I look for are
* If there are ads, they must not be forced by a script
* Must allow me to place my own ads
* Must be over 100 megs
* Must allow files up to 5 megs
* Must have an active forum or support service
* Must run LAMP
* Must look secure and stable
* Must have an obvious source of revenue to keep it going
* Must not require another sample website to apply
* Must not require me to fill out one of those really long "check yes or no" offer lists that I hate more than cauliflower
* If there are ads, they must not be forced by a script
* Must allow me to place my own ads
* Must be over 100 megs
* Must allow files up to 5 megs
* Must have an active forum or support service
* Must run LAMP
* Must look secure and stable
* Must have an obvious source of revenue to keep it going
* Must not require another sample website to apply
* Must not require me to fill out one of those really long "check yes or no" offer lists that I hate more than cauliflower
What are the 3 most important features that you need in a free hosting plan?
-Cpanel
-No ads
-Reliability
What are the 10 most important features that you need in a free hosting plan?
-Cpanel: There must be a decent, useful cpanel provided. Layered Panel is an example of what not to use.
-No ads: Advertisements on a web page does not look professional
-Space/bandwidth: Looking for about 500mb space/ 5gb bandwidth.
-Reliable: Has the host been up for a long time? Do they have good uptime? Do they plan to stay?
-Organized: Does this host have a plan to support themselves and offer their services, and do they keep all of their business organized
-Support: Does the host provide fast, efficient, and helpful support in a good manner?
-Connection: Does the staff make a personal connection with the hosting clients
-No strange rules: The host doesn't have weird limitations, such as file types, size...
-Professional: Does the host have a professional view, do they act like a paid host would?
-Community: The community enjoys using the host.
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I have come to realize that advertisements are completely ruining a free host. Ads on the host page however, is just fine. And, I have also realized that posting for hosting is ok.
If you want a host that demonstrates above and beyond my standards, take a look at kwix host. (when they update their site)-http://kwix-host.com/
-Cpanel
-No ads
-Reliability
What are the 10 most important features that you need in a free hosting plan?
-Cpanel: There must be a decent, useful cpanel provided. Layered Panel is an example of what not to use.
-No ads: Advertisements on a web page does not look professional
-Space/bandwidth: Looking for about 500mb space/ 5gb bandwidth.
-Reliable: Has the host been up for a long time? Do they have good uptime? Do they plan to stay?
-Organized: Does this host have a plan to support themselves and offer their services, and do they keep all of their business organized
-Support: Does the host provide fast, efficient, and helpful support in a good manner?
-Connection: Does the staff make a personal connection with the hosting clients
-No strange rules: The host doesn't have weird limitations, such as file types, size...
-Professional: Does the host have a professional view, do they act like a paid host would?
-Community: The community enjoys using the host.
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I have come to realize that advertisements are completely ruining a free host. Ads on the host page however, is just fine. And, I have also realized that posting for hosting is ok.
If you want a host that demonstrates above and beyond my standards, take a look at kwix host. (when they update their site)-http://kwix-host.com/
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Tatzel
New Member
1. TOS. Does it allow legal adult content. Some of the sites and forums I help set up typically involve the possibility of adult topics talk, or creative writing of fandom/original romance stories that don't stop at kisses so that's the first thing I look at. Probably not what's usually termed porn but sometime not altogether suitable for all publics either, and with a good number of webhosts my visit stops right there, if they explicitly forbid adult content or run on member pages an ad network that does (Goooogle).
2. Appropriate space and bandwidth. But well 95+% of free offers typically have what I'm looking for in a free plan or sometime ridiculously more. I'm usually looking for 200-300 MB space / 3-5 GB bandwidth with reasonable speed and (95+% ?) uptime.
3. Subdomain or even the old "username directory". If I'm forking over for a domain I'll usually go with at least some budget hosting plan. So if it's free it must have one of those.
4. LAMP.
5. Sendmail on. Often find myself setting up forums so the ability to verify addresses, resend passwords or the occasionnal announcement is quite appreciated.
6. FTP that's not overcrowded, phpMyAdmin or some similar solution. If I have that even the most barebones control panel or none at all will do.
7. No weird chmodding or filetype restrictions. I'm fine with forbidden media and music filetypes, but when the filetypes for even such major packages as SMF or myBB give errors because the only one they ever bothered to check was phpbb2, and there's no way to request others that may be needed by less common but still legitimate scripts, time to move on...
8. Ads. The host must obviously have some sort of counterpart. Those I'm usually most at ease with are some sort of self-placed banner or contextual ads on the website part, and a footer linkback on forums. I don't like "compulsory attendance" post4host though I can probably be convinced to post some reasonable initial amount, and I'm usually at least a bit active on forum of hosts I end up really using and like them to be reasonably maintained and friendly.
9. Filesize restriction... I like it to be at least 2 Megs, doesn't really need to be over 5 Megs though. That's, of course, not including the database(s), allowing them to grow as they will within the overall disk space.
10. No spam, thanks. And no third-party surveys.
2. Appropriate space and bandwidth. But well 95+% of free offers typically have what I'm looking for in a free plan or sometime ridiculously more. I'm usually looking for 200-300 MB space / 3-5 GB bandwidth with reasonable speed and (95+% ?) uptime.
3. Subdomain or even the old "username directory". If I'm forking over for a domain I'll usually go with at least some budget hosting plan. So if it's free it must have one of those.
4. LAMP.
5. Sendmail on. Often find myself setting up forums so the ability to verify addresses, resend passwords or the occasionnal announcement is quite appreciated.
6. FTP that's not overcrowded, phpMyAdmin or some similar solution. If I have that even the most barebones control panel or none at all will do.
7. No weird chmodding or filetype restrictions. I'm fine with forbidden media and music filetypes, but when the filetypes for even such major packages as SMF or myBB give errors because the only one they ever bothered to check was phpbb2, and there's no way to request others that may be needed by less common but still legitimate scripts, time to move on...
8. Ads. The host must obviously have some sort of counterpart. Those I'm usually most at ease with are some sort of self-placed banner or contextual ads on the website part, and a footer linkback on forums. I don't like "compulsory attendance" post4host though I can probably be convinced to post some reasonable initial amount, and I'm usually at least a bit active on forum of hosts I end up really using and like them to be reasonably maintained and friendly.
9. Filesize restriction... I like it to be at least 2 Megs, doesn't really need to be over 5 Megs though. That's, of course, not including the database(s), allowing them to grow as they will within the overall disk space.
10. No spam, thanks. And no third-party surveys.
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