Freewebs Going Down Hill - my reason for switching

I never was really that impressed with freewebs. I used to use them alot a few years ago when I would make small websites with friends. As my websites became more and more ambitious and bigger their restrictions became a big hassle. Maybe they've changed but I don't know. I found this place last night and I'm very impressed with the features and the unique way of earning credits. Freewebs is forever gone from my mind but this place is in my highly recomended box.

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I used to have Freewebs for an old site of mine. Back then it was the best for HTML page hosting. No ads, and easy to use. Then I switched to a host with PHP as Freewebs doesn't have it. From there-on, I have been through trouble with many free PHP/SQL hosts. AstaHost is the only remaining freehosting community to try. Yet people seem to like it here. So I found the right place.

EDIT: Corrected typo

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Yeah, I hate it when companies (especially web hosts) just "dissappear" off the face of the Earth. I've had that happen to me. I've lost some files I'll never see again, that's for sure.

In the past, Freewebs used to be good enough, even with the required text link. I had a few sites hosted there.

I just visited some free websites hosted at Freewebs. Sure enough... yet another lying, cheating webhost. There's the Google ad, right at the top. No one minds text links. Like, if I really need free hosting, I try to find places that will either A) Allow you to link to them, Force text links (top or bottom) or C) Allow you to place ads anywhere on your site.

Times have changed for freewebs I guess. They needed to generate some revenue most likely. Oh well.

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Ive tried Free Webs, I don't like it at all. It has many ads and other problems wiht it. Hopefully Astahost will be good . I have looked everywhere, then I was told to go here just recently. It seems good so far.

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What I don't quite understand is why web providers bother with pop-up/popunder windows still. Most of us use pop-up blockers (and browsers come with that option built in). So is throwing up a bunch of windows that most people are never going to see thanks to their blocking software still effective advertising? Or has it gone to "just annoying" at this point?

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Well, I assure you... there are not that many sites like Astahost. I have seen a couple others like Astahost - they are pretty good, except that they have monthly post requirements, etc. Annoying to some extent, but still... good services and great server uptimes

However there are some ... in the opposite spectrum, like freewebs. Oh my gosh, they're like Geocities and it's horrible. Stupid advertisements that pop up or that get installed without your permission (most of the time... well, almost all the time) and this really ticks people off!!!

Hmmm... I just have to say that Astahost is a really good place to stay. Good posting system but sometimes gets on my nerves because I don't have much time to get online - free time is very limited.

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Well I first started off with http://www.webspawner.com. They were AWFUL and you couldn't put HTML on your site, I DON'T recommend them!
Freewebs are ok and they did accept html, but as you say they are a large company and an Ad was placed on my site!
Astahist is a closer and nicer community than freewebs and you can communicate with others here.

So stop Freewebs and go to Astahost!

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Well i guess I'm a little too lazy to quote but in response to the few posts about having webhosts suddenly disappear off the face of the earth, i would VERY like to mention one that i was just about one of the first few members to join. I was a really dedicated poster and kept the posts up and coming. The name of the webhost is called zer0host.

At the beginning, it was great. Actually fantastic! They had everything Astahost provides and more space than what Astahost provides, unfortunately, my guess is that this extra space is their downfall. A few days before the server "crashed" and they never put it up again, i experienced lots of problems upload files. I was in contact with one of the moderators of the forum (yeah they have a forum where you have to post to earn a hosting account too) and he told me to not worry, that the server will be back up soon but for me to backup my files just in case.

Now i truly thank him for the hint, becuase the next day their website disappeared. Just point blank gone.
At first thought i hovered over the idea of me typing the wrong domain name which is impossible because I've been with them for 2 months, how could i type it wrong? No worries, i Google searched zer0host. It worked, and the link to the site on Google is still there but the site cannot be accessed. Everything was gone 'cept for everything i backed up. I was really disappointed because zer0host was growing into a really large community. I think their other problem was unecessary sign ups. You needed hmm...i think it was 50 or 100 posts before you get a hosting account. After that you can basically stop posting. Astahost did this before too, and suddenly you find people with 10 posts just hanging there. So our wonderful Asta admins came up with the hosting credits idea. I don't mind it one bit, but i really thought zer0host could've survived more if it had adopted the hosting credits idea earlier.

There was also alot of spam in the board with only 1 or 2 mods who really bothered to clear it. Even some topics opened with words like "hi" in them which is already 1 post. The problem hereis that the admins and mods don't approve the accounts one by one. Once you get a 100 posts who go to the IPB store and get a key which you use to open up an account in their server. I thought it was pretty interesting but what the heck...now its gone.

A month till then, i found Astahost and started posting here. Remarkably, i found Astahost quite similar to zer0host's beginning structure and (sorry to say this but) i had some doubts about Astahost too in the first place. Nonetheless, i found the environment quite refreshing and there's a huge variety of topics to post in. And unlike zer0host, Astahost is an "extension" of a paid hosting site which pretty much means that Astahost is being run by a true company dedicated to providing web hosting. My instincts proved right and Astahost has lasted extraordinarily well all the way, and i am sure Astahost will be there all the way.

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I felt freewebs about a year ago they suck and the service is not good going to try here when i get enought points

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Astahost is the best i have every found.

When you take a look at all the services and CPANEL, it looks like its a paid hosting service, with everything professionally done.

But its not paid, its free.

I'm hosted with Astahost right now and I can tell you all its worth it. It truly is like having a paid service.


The forums thing they have going is a great idea. I've gotten a lot of questions answered about my programming and stuff.

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