 Free Web Hosting With 5gigs.com!, a review of the service at 5gigs.com |
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 Jan 8 2006, 12:54 PM
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Newbie  Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 8-January 06 Member No.: 16,774  |
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- FREE domain hosting - 100 megs of web space - 5 GIGS of bandwidth - no forced ads or pop-ups - cPanel & webalizer statistics - 1 MySQL database & PHPMyAdmin - 5 pop3 email accounts with webmail - real FTP access and file manager - PHPBB, phpNuke and much more... - Fast, powerful dedicated servers!!! This post has been edited by jlhaslip: Jan 8 2006, 04:40 PM |
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Jan 8 2006, 01:27 PM
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.::UniCorN::. Group: Members Posts: 973 Joined: 19-September 04 From: Dalian CHN Member No.: 1,192 |
***this is not a credit in counting please***
hello,ibsed to be careful in reading forum rules next time.please post in the right place before you wanna start a thread. to help mods' work, the current post should belong to Non-Trap 17 Hosted and the similar topic Streamload.com Offers 10gigs Of File Storage and Free Tutorial (web Programming) + Free Web Hosting are aslo to be moved. enjoy your stay here.good luck 
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Jan 8 2006, 01:47 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 19-November 05 Member No.: 14,582 |
Dear Ibsed,
First of all: why you need a free host if you already found an awesome one  . Second of all I wanna warn you all: this hosting site isn't as free as they pretend. They give you three choices: Payed hosting for over 6 euro's a months. Free Subdomain hosting and "free" domain hosting. But when you click on the free subdomain hosting it says that it is "temporarily disabled" and you can only choose for the domain hosting, and if you do so you have to register a domain by them, you can't even use your own domain. Final note: they aren't quite as good as Trap17 or Astahost. They offer the same bandwidth, but less webspace, only 1 (!) MySQL database and I heard lots of people saying that their servers aren't even nearly as reliable as they pretend. I say: stick where you are and don't get screwed. QUOTE Regards, Warbird. |
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Jan 8 2006, 04:30 PM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member Group: Members Posts: 1,205 Joined: 25-March 05 Member No.: 4,883 |
No wait.. 5gig.com is giving out free domain hosting also? If the entire hosting plan is free without forced ads and forum postings, then it's somewhat looks better for those who dislike forum postings everytime to keep their webhost alive. Furthermore, it had free domain hosting according to 5gigs.com. I'm not sure about it. I've signed up a test account at 5gigs.com to test if the quality of service and if the free domain hosting is true. I'm waiting for it's activation link to be sent to my email.
I'm not saying I'll move hosting service or whatsoever. I'm just wanna try this host to see if its true about what they advertised. Why not, its free.. And no harm testing another webhost to see its quality. |
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Jan 8 2006, 06:17 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 19-November 05 Member No.: 14,582 |
QUOTE(Inspiron @ Jan 8 2006, 05:30 PM) No wait.. 5gig.com is giving out free domain hosting also?  Nope, that's why I was talking about their "free" domain hosting. Because it isn't free. Infact it's even more expensive then most domain registrations. You pay $10 a year for your domain and some low quality hosting. Regards, Warbird |
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Jan 8 2006, 06:27 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 8-January 06 Member No.: 16,788 |
Hmm Ok, from the sound of everything, it looks awesome, but when you actually go there, it’s a different story.
First of all, the FREE SUB-DOMAIN HOSTING is disabled, note the huge red evil X. This then leaves the only choice left, the FREE DOMAIN WEB HOSTING, which sounds just as good, when you see the small grey words: Buy a Domain for $10.00 What’s up with that? I though it was free, well then you have hosted free, so we actually need domain names first I see. Hmm tricky. You have no forced pops and etc. which is good, I guess, but 1 mysql database hmm, that might not be as well The 5 gigs it self is awesome, just not the rest |
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Jan 9 2006, 11:21 AM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member Group: Members Posts: 1,205 Joined: 25-March 05 Member No.: 4,883 |
Ok.. The test account I've set up from 5gigs.com looks bad.
Firstly, the activation link which supposed to send to my email after I've completed my subscription form took more than 30 minutes. It certainly gave a bad impression that their servers are slow in handling tasks. Secondly, another activation link is said to be sent again after clicking the first one. So another time I've got to wait again. This time the activation link brings to an invalid page..  Totally crappy, isn't it..?So that's it for 5gigs.com.. Say goodbye to it and stay with Trap17.com |
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Aug 9 2006, 04:57 PM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 8-August 06 Member No.: 27,978 |
It's not bad to share the knowledge. But please do check the terms/conditions properly when deciding to go for a free host. 5Gig clearly says they will go for ADs on free sites very soon.
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Aug 10 2006, 12:14 AM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 28,086 |
QUOTE THE SIGN-UP FORM IS DOWN FOR SYSTEM MAINTENANCE PLEASE CHECK BACK AT A LATER DATE the sign up form at 5gigs.com is down for system maintenance 
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