One free web hosting site I came across fooled me into signing up with their promises of a PHP Sendmail feature, SMTP, and mySQL. And dya know what i found out after wasting my time signing up. Only the webspace and subdomain name were free, the rest you had to pay for it. What a rip off, man!

They did not "rip you off" unless they specifically said "Every single feature, including PHP Sendmail, SMTP, and mysql is free" and also must have had that in the TOS.

It pays to read tos, they could easily say "by clicking accept, you agree to pay %companyName% 10,000USD every day until christmas.

What is the name of the website so that our readers can avoid wasting their times?

yea, i'd like to know what hosting co. since i research most all of them before bedding down with trap17. i may have something to add if i knew the co.

also, there is no ripoff when they are giving you something for free btw and when you gave nothing for their services. maybe false advertising? name the hosting site so we can review this site.

Theres not very much chance (if ANY) for legal action to successfully be taken unless they have done something with your details or made money from you joining.

Well, they haven't done anything of that sort. But I wasted my time signing up, checking my email, activating acount, only to find out the "sendmail" feature which i badly needed was available for $5 I think. I do have $5 with me but I don't have a credit card or paypal account to transact payment , and I wouldn't want to set up one just to pay $5. Yeah, can't say it was a ripoff, forgive the term I used. maybe I didn't read the TOs fully like you said. I've learnt to be more careful next time. Thanks

Oh, by the way, I can't remember the name of the website, cos I deleted all bookmarks and their emails. Was something like 110mb, sorry.

This post has been edited by polter: Dec 19 2007, 08:52 AM

What is the site? I am starting to think that this is made up.... And most companies DO sell your information but its within PP.

No, I'm not making this up. Why should I? I've signed up with 100s of free web hosting companies and this is the only that really disappointed me. Here's the website. Came across while going through my junk mail. 110mb.com. Their features :

* 110MB 5 GB Space - FREE
* Dual Xeon & Opteron based Servers
* PHP 5 - FREE!
* Live Support - *Open 5 hours a day
* FTP (chmod enabled) - FREE!
* Sendmail (PHP Mail) - *Must activate
* Your Own Domain Hosting - FREE!
* Safe Mode OFF - FREE!
* CGI/Perl - *Must activate

PHP 5 - FREE! yes, but you have to pay $9.95 for mysql database (I could buy a nice domain name with that)
* Sendmail (PHP Mail) - *Must activate, yes after you pay them $5

Can't really say they tricked me. But the information they give here is very misleading for starters like me. I'm not posting this to earn trap17's favors, not being a butt-kisser. But I have high hopes with Trap17 because after earning only 30 credits(took about 2 hours to compose quality posts), I now have a hosting account with great features.
Just sharing some of the things I came across while trying to set up my website.

That was what I was talking about. I wasted two hours or so on their website. Thank you

This post has been edited by polter: Dec 19 2007, 09:10 AM

Your complaining about 110mb? roflmao.

It says "*must activate" next to the ones that u needa pay 4.

I have to say, they are the BEST non-cpanel host, and they never said that the other features were free, they said you need to activate so you have not been ripped off! As a user of this company, and knowing others than use it, it is great and you should never doubt them!