I have tried a lot of free web hosts before moving in with trap 17. Either it was a short notice cancellation email or the unilateral addition of ads onto my site, there were many tricks that free web hosts used to kick people out of their site. I was with trap 17 nearly a year now. I almost quit about half a year ago when trap 17 introduced the hosting credit system that honestly I think I still don’t like now. trap 17 is also not as competitive as far as hosting space is concerned. With the small space, I can only host a simple blog on it. Trap 17 does have its advantages over other host. Its uptime is good, and its far more stable than many hosts that I have been with previously. This makes it the best site for hosting something that you want it to be on the net as long as possible. The Cpanel is also very attractive.

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Well pixelrift appears to have died a horrible death a few days after they moved servers or something - which sucksors, because they were providing 500M storage and all that other nice stuff.

Coolfreepages/Curvedspaces I had for a while, but I left it for thirty days and my account got a bad case of dead. Nowadays they aren't allowng any new signups.


So, here I is at trap17 with 150mb of space and various other pwnage. I still can't believe it's ad free 'n' all that. Finally, I can go back to not having to use all kinds of wierd CSS trickery to compensate for a hundred pixels of ad-banner at the top of my f-socking pages

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yes yes yes!!! trap17 is the best host evah XDDD i agree, most hosts don't offer enough space, and if they do, then theres going to be popups or ad banners T_T and other hosts, you have to post in forums like...40 posts a week or somethin and you don't even get that many mysql databases or somethin like that @_@ that's why trap17 is such a great host XD. STICK WITH IT!!!

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Wow, there is so much loyalty here. I just came from spooted.org which died most unceremoniusly last week. They were trying to offer features very similar to those offered by trap17, but without the posting requirements. They must have had a big initial investment, because they went strong for a while but then they went splat. Now I see they have been resurrected, but the state of their site suggests they missed some kind of saving throw because it looks zombified.

When I first started looking for a free host I hesitated to try the posting model, mostly because I didn't care about the community. trap17, and a few others, have communities interesting enough that I think I would keep coming back to post.

I have some smallish complaints with t17, but so far they have delivered on most of their promises. The fact that they've been around for so long in this market speaks volumes. I hope to stick around too. See ya!

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Thanks a million times for all the votes. I have tried my best to keep the posting requirements as low as possible. Our credits system is really generous *unless you try to make 100's in a single day *.

However, I make it generous so that it will attract more people. Only when more people join, the community and traffic will be stable. Please refer as many friends, pals, collegues .. as you can.

And I would really appreciate if you cast a vote for our service at Free Web Hosts (link in my Signiture).

As for Donations, they are not required. I did accept previously, but many insisted on donating $1 or $2 off which, Paypal took away around 40%. :< So, its better we don't let Paypal exploit us further.

Thanks a bunch again :-)

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Yeah-

When the credits system was introduced, I left too - when you lose the human link, i figured that this place would drop QUICKLY.

Boy was I wrong-

Sure, this eliminates the human link in the chain, and now that you have all the automation, it pretty much deletes all sympathy in the chain.

However, when you look at the big picture, I really should be slapped for complaining. After all Trap does for us, and all we do is post good stuff, and learn a little bit everyday.

And if ya' don't like it, move to paid hosting Which is what i'll be doing soon (Computing Host! Here I come) but not because I don't like the service, because soon, posting will become a huge hindrance in my life, and I might resort to spam (aahhh! nooo) and such. So I'm highly considering moving to the 14.95 pkg @ Computing host.

Panda- Thanks OpaQue for all you do bro!

Live on T17!

 

 

 

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Ive been on many hosting sites and ive found many problems

freewebs.com-limited pages-no php or mySQL allowed and u have to be a premium user to use CGI
t35.com-no mySQL allowed and FTP thing doesnt work
some window thing-U need to use the programming languages they have not any other ones

geocities-to confusing

i hope trap17 is good

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Agree so bad..everytime i try a host, it has banners, popups, links, spam email, downtime, slow etc. I really hope trap17 works good for me !

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I have used alot of free webhosts, I mean alot. Like 50-60. I have never found one quite like trap17. The staff is very kind and speedy. There are a wide variety of things to talk about. Besides, your going to post on some forum anyway so why not post and get free hosting at the same time.

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I hope trap17 doesn't shut down or insist payment later on. In my previous host they were good, it was a forum posting like this one although they did not rely on credits, you just have to stay active and your site wil be ok. I was hosted there for 8 months until recently they got hacked and our sites were down for like a month! Most of the members were pisse because the owner of the site now demands payment for our sites to be up and running again because he cannot afford to keep all free sites running. What's even worse is we couldn't get our back up files and he demands a "donation" so we could get our files back. It was sooooooooo frustrating.

I hope that doesn't happen here at trap17.

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