Well this is in general a complain to free hosts, not about this 1 keep that in mind havent used it yet In general most free hosts are resellers or rairly use there own servers. Some full with adds even with simply html support full of spam.

Now I host my own msql mysql php etc, for my projects on dictated servers. And I know that its heavy to host if its used a lot. But html I really hate a host if he advertises even on html pages I really think that is so retarded. And yust a way of making money for that person not helping his community out.

Also sometimes support, I use difrent hosts. Heres a funny 1 I e-mail the host of that website because he had no forum. Ye my site dusent display when I upload it. He says you removed the www folder. I said it dident even create it first bug.
Then 2 days after downtimes, ftp never works anymore. Am lucky I even uploaded it all before everything went down. I got a site running that cant be edited cinda freaky aye? Maild him about it but he dident respound really anoying.

Whats your general experience with hosts over the years? I hate html only hosts nowadays there so profit only.

Well if we are talking about serious hosting, I have only been involved twice, Digital Pulse and Trap17. Digital Pulse is reasonably good, it is actually paid hosting but was given a free account as the owner is a friend of mine. The only problem with it was that it was down a tad too many times, DNS problems recently finally convinced me to make a switch to Trap17.

Hosts which posts advertisements in your HTML pages are a no no. Spoils the layout on a large scale and it can't be any good for your site

well trap17 has been a pretty good host in my opinion. i've not had many problems here. I used to use some free hosting places with ads on your site but it makes it look tacky and unprofessional and you don't usually get as good a deal as you get here

I will agree with this - Trap17 hasn't seemed to ever time-out on me like another free host that I had. That host had 170 other sites running, but grew too quickly I feel ... large chunks of time without any service at times.

I replaced that other free host with a virtual all in one dedicated server. That host rocks! I have as much bandwidth and space as the near future could ever demand.

I think that you should be able to get a good feel for how good any particular free host really is - before you sign up. I would think that some research should be done as to the host's support, "customer satisfaction". Another important factor would be the host's server setup - and how much "horse-power" their machine has (eg: 4 CPU, pentium 4). You should be able to get some good information by looking up the host's domain on whois.

I fully agree to you my brotha. Im very unhappy with all of these different hosts. they promise one thing but apparantly you get another. My thing i want to assure is that maybe pepol dont happen to like this very much. I mean they dont profit on it very much so i think this in other words helps them get more traffic in site. A nice traffic means nice ads means nice cash . this maybe also make other peoples who want to purchase another of to buy this verty exclusive thing. I personally thing that - sorry my english is very very bad but i think that there is a point in all this. we must not fight with it I think this trap17 is very nice hostes and forum post is not very much to ask for. Also happy people can be found here so gratz every one for this host!!!!

Lots of free hosts really annoying me being so 'commercial'. Trap17 was so much more down to Earth and its pretty good

I like the forum idea, being able to express myself and ask questions to other people while having a free top level hosting account.

I've tried many different free hosting services over the year, but I honestly haven't been satisfied with any of them. Most of them are only free for a certain amount of time and have forced advertisements.

From what I've seen so far, Trap17 looks really kewl -- I mean a free hosting service with no advertisements ... and all you have to do is stay active on the forums! Pretty good deal if you ask me...

This post has been edited by patrickh123: Sep 24 2006, 09:20 PM

I'd had to say that the older free hosts over the years ie Geocities, tripod, freeservers, etc has indeed gone downhill to an extent where they are now forcing banners and popups on their sites.

Where theres a downside, better providers such as trap17 come along with more decent "premium-level" features and a fairer system to "earn" the privilege to free "premium" hosting with all the necessary extras such as ftp, sql, sub-domains and so forth. Keep up the good work trap17

The host i had before, was...okay at first, but then it was like atleast once a week it would be down, especially the mysql, it was ALWAYS down, and that was what i ran my board on, so obviously it was a pain in the neck. Now that i have had Trap, i dont actually recall it being down, [it might have been once or twise, but my internet connection was decieving occasionally] unless it was an error on my part. But ive only used two hosts so far.