[nik11]

Anyone with experience of these guys?

They offer the pay by posting type scheme.

The offer about a million things for free in their hosting, wordpress, wiki, phpBB, and lots lots more.

I can't help but be cynical, although I'm beginning to understand that pay by posting means you're forced to see ads when u post. Ok, fine, but all these are so new, like a few months or less than a year.

I need free hosting but it will be a site important to its users, I cant afford for it to all collapse or be asked to pay in a year's time.

Sorry, am I rambling?

I just have a headache from surfing for 2 days trying to find reliable and free.

thanks

[LSChosting]

Originally Posted by nik11

Anyone with experience of these guys?
I need free hosting but it will be a site important to its users, I cant afford for it to all collapse or be asked to pay in a year's time.

If it's an important site, then my only suggestion to you is to pay for hosting - you have NO guarantees with free hosting, and you're totally at their mercy with your website.

JM2C

[nik11]

I appreciate the sentiment, but the reason a board like freewebhostingtalk exists, is because ther is a need for free hosting.

I won't bother explaining why my group needs it, b/c it's boring to anyone but ourselves.

I don't mind ads, you have to pay ofr your 'free' somehow, but the only other reliable one I know are Bravehost. While Bravehost is quite good, their ads are awful.

[djbob]

Originally Posted by nik11

Anyone with experience of these guys?

They offer the pay by posting type scheme.

The offer about a million things for free in their hosting, wordpress, wiki, phpBB, and lots lots more.

I can't help but be cynical, although I'm beginning to understand that pay by posting means you're forced to see ads when u post. Ok, fine, but all these are so new, like a few months or less than a year.

I need free hosting but it will be a site important to its users, I cant afford for it to all collapse or be asked to pay in a year's time.

Sorry, am I rambling?

I just have a headache from surfing for 2 days trying to find reliable and free.

thanks

The million things isn't special at all. Its just an addon (Fantastico) and some CPanel built-in scripts. Really nothing special, you'll find it at most quality hosts.

I myself own a post-for-host host (www.heliohost.org). Yes, you are forced so see ads when you post (although I can't see why anyone would object to that). And yes, most hosts of these kind are new. But why does that matter? IMO, free hosts have three different requirements: NICE support, GOOD features, and RELIABILITY.

A post-for-host, will, in truth, always give you better support. Why? Because the whole thing centers on getting help. Comeon, its a forum.

Most post-for-host use that system because they can't do auto-ads. I know I can't. The reason is that we have a reseller package. Whats so good about this? We have more features, the cost is small so we can support it even if we have no revenue. In fact, the cost is so small is that I am making a surplus just using my system.

And finally, considering we are resellers, we are very reliable. Our parent hosts are usually giants, and very reliable. And once again, we don't have much to lose, considering the cost is so small.