There are not a lot of places where you can get web space for hosting sites for free. There are a few but most of them don’t allow users to use their own domain or they restrict some file types. Some even provide free web hosting with cpanel. Some free web hosting providers allow use of only particular extensions with lots of restrictions and those kind of hosting is almost of no use ( particularly for me). I have used free hosting from many sites and at last decided it was better to pay a small fee than to get web hosting for free. I used free hosting from awardspace (which only allowed use of subdomain eg: test.awardspace.com) . I found one that allowed free hosting of sites which included a cpanel. I used it for quite a while but after some time, they collapsed. It was not the best hosting but was pretty good if you consider the price, FREE.
After that, I decided to purchase a hosting plan but that failed horrendously two times. Now, I found the perfect hosting for my sites. It is pretty cheap and has a damn good server with no downtime till now. Well, if you can’t afford to pay for hosting or you want to just try it out, you can find few good free web hosting providers. I think Hostbot.com might fall into one of them. They don’t have Cpanel but you can have access and manage your site’s file using a pretty good control panel. They also allow free php web hosting, not a lot of sites allow php files on their server ( for free service ). Hostbot also doesn’t want anything in return for the free hosting space and bandwidth. Some of the free web hosting providers force the users with links and ads that are placed automatically at the footer (usually). With Hostbot, there is no forced ads. Their free hosting plan includes:
- 20GB Disk Space
- 10GB Bandwidth
- Full FTP access
- Supports Php5 and SQL (You could host sites that require a database like wordpress)
- They also offer quite a few useful pre-installed scripts which you could use to make a site
- Get access to traffic data with the help of Awstats which is also available for free
Awstats is a very useful tool for analytic traffic and visitor data. I use it all the time and it is the best analytic software available. Awstats even shows when search engine spiders (bots) have accessed your sites. Well if you want more disk space and bandwidth than currently provided by hostbot, you can upgrade your account by paying a small monthly fee. I would have loved to see Cpanel on it. What do you expect, the service is provided for free with no forced ads and also allows SQL database, PHP etc. You can try it, its free and if you don’t like it you don’t loose anything. If you want to operate a business website or anything important, you might want to go for a paid one that offers Cpanel.
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why will they give free hosting ? nothing is free. there must be some earning plan hidden behind it
nop, there is not. they don’t place any links on your sites or any ads. maybe their server is free and they are giving it out for free. Well they provide very low bandwidth for free so if you need more you have to purchase on of their hosting plans. maybe its just a marketing method?
I registered for an account as hostbot.com and everything went smoothly initially. However i tried installing Joomla from their addons list but encountered some problems. Their script uploaded and extracted the Jooma version (1.0.13) and the installation process began as expected. The problem was the the installer refused to accept my database username, database name and password. I know the entries were correct because I successfully logged into PHPMyAdmin. I reckoned the problem was the host name. I tried “localhost” and “hostbot.com” but had no success. I have contacted hostbot but have not received a response.
Does anyone know the database host name?
Cheers
I have the same problem when i tried to install wordpress. Anyone has any ideas?
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Free hosting is a great place to start for any newbie blogger or webmaster. It’s a good chance to get their feet wet before taking the big plunge so to speak. It also gives them an idea of what the web hosts are like as providers too. If they provide a bad service then you don’t pay for full hosting when your blog outgrows its free limitations.
Yeah! I know, Free webhosting index with more than 350 providers of free webspace. Reviews and comparison charts of free web hosts.
I have already gone through Zymic.com which provide goo free web hosting.
Even Doteasy offers banner less web hosting. cool!
I registered a domain and hosting in hostbot.com. I installed joomla successfully. I think, you should create a short user name and database name. Good luck.
to JD:
you have to assign privileges to your db username, otherwise it won’t work.
believe me, i’ve realized it just now, after endless trying… =)