Freewebs Going Down Hill - my reason for switching

Im a person who keeps on seking for newer and better things........... I had tried some of the free hosts but they put a add on your pages that makes it ugly....... Out of which geocities.com is one of the worst..... I hanst been a long time since I joined Astahost When I first saw Astahost comment in website reviews I wasnt too much Impressed . I also dint liked posting on forums but now I like the forums & postings Im not planing to host my site now Ill spend some time on forums( may be 1-2 months) then only Ill start over.....The forums r really very helpful ,where you get your doubts clearified in less than a day from expert webmasters........

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Heh heh freewebs has been around for quite some time but in my opinion they have been going downhill for a long... long... time. I see they have finally added *some* features they had planned for who knows how long but they have restricted things aswell.

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Yes, I agree completely. FreeWebs is going downhill.

I remember joining FreeWebs when there was no ads, banner or otherwise. Worked wonders for my layout. I signed up a few days before they started employing the "This site is maintained for free at FreeWebs. Get your own free website now!" text banner policy. This didn't bother me much, however, as it was just one line of text that you had to put at the bottom of your pages. No harm done at all. I could live with it.

But recently, they added this huge banner ad at the top which screwed up my entire layout...badly. This happened a few days before I went and checked on my website, I believe.

However, I did notice that some websites have the large banner ad while others do not (such as my friends). What's up with that?

To be honest, I gave up on FreeWebs after I learned that you could only upload 50 files at max, which really turned me off. Creates a huge problem for those that have a gallery of sorts (and this was before I knew of Photobucket and the like).

And did you see how much hosting a domain name with them is? Nearly $30 a year. That's asking way too much if you ask me.

 

 

 

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I completely agree with you, Anime. I used Freewebs for two to three years, and I thought it was GREAT because of it being free, I didn't care at all about the adds. But now, after seeing Astahost, FreeWebs is HISTORY for me. As soon as I have the points, I'm transferring all of my info onto my site hosted off here. Its too bad that freewebs users have never heard of AstaHost, hopefully, sometime they will!

Maxfelgar.

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The only free host I've used in the past was Geocities. But I agree with many here... It was Terrible. Now that I've been hosted here for awhile and am getting to know my way around the CPanel, I see that Geocities is Nothing in comparison. Astahost is great. I love the forums. I would post here even if it wasn't required! I think it's great that Asta can offer so many services for free. Must cost them a fortune! But for the most part there is awsome community involvment here, which I would think the Admins would like to see. I know I won't be switching, I'm not even going to look elsewhere. Well, at least for now, Astahost has everything I need. Maybe in the future I might have to have more space. I don't know what Asta's paid hosting offers, but if it comes down to a space issue, I will check there first.

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Yup I certainly can't complain about the services offered here and nor the community at all. Both seem very well intact and quite mature. Freewebs was all the rage back in the day but lack of things such as support for PHP really brought it down.

And as I said before, many services basically promised years ago have only recently been implemented and now all this rubbish with huge ads and what not, it just doesn't cut it really.

Plus the capacity has gotten smaller, file size upload limit isn't very good and I think you have a limit on pages as well as files in general as mentioned above.

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Agreed. I seriously disliked Geocities. The ads...they just never disappear. Angelfire and Tripod are just as bad though.

Back to Freewebs. I used it at one point because several friends recommened it as "good". At first everything was going fine, until I discovered they had a page limit (20 files), so I had to find a different webhost. This is probably the saddest aspect of their hosting--I mean, only 20 files? That's near nothing.

As for the ads aspect of their hosting, I think Freewebs implements the whole "you start out with a no ads website, and then after two or so weeks if you don't pay for the hosting, you get ads". The interesting thing is though, that I didn't have ads at all on my Freewebs page. (I only have one page there, and it redirects to a different host because of the file limit). I wonder if they put ads only on the well-known pages (as mine isn't visited all that much anymore).

I also didn't like the uploader in Freewebs either--you could only upload one file at a time (although I believe at one point they offered multiple file uploading, but then it was gone and they wanted to charge a fee) and the uploader tended to crash a lot. (the white page of doom)

I also didn't enjoy the fact that you had to put up a link back to Freewebs--though that is much better than the ads.


Yeah, I like this idea. Especially since I find the forums pretty interesting. And people need to learn how to post better at forums...:3

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Well.. today is my first day and it seems to be a good freewebhosting...
lets see.. just time will show me how true it is...

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Yeah, Freewebs was good, but then something happened lol. I had a site on there but they don't let you make over like 30 pages. And lately it has not been working. So now I'm trying to get enough posts and points to get hosted here. I'm also impressed with the service here. It seems like a really good deal :)What I really like about it is that it uses FTP instead of those pagebuilder things. And also Freewebs doesn't allow Cutenews or Wordpress.

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Ha freewebs.. who needs them when they have astahost? you're limited to like 5 pages and something around 1mb plus don't forget all that advertising they put on your pages. If it was my choice i'd choose to post every now and then on the astahost forums to get quality hosting not some totally free sign up and forget about your account hosting.
I used to use freewebs along time ago and i'll admit it was alright for what i needed to do. I'll never switch back to freewebs though.

-HellFire

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