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A lot of free hosts going down?

I would say that most of free web hosting just laucnhes for fun :) it's like "I want to have free hosting"...here you go the man launches his free web hosting...Secondly he think "Oh. great I got 3 sign ups today! Horrrray!!"...Finally he goes like: "OK, it's time to pay for the next month...Ah, just forget about it..."
That is typical picture of free hosting that does not know what to do with it...If you draw (to yourself) the strategy and what cost and what income could be from your free hosting, well than that could be very perspective, but mostly piece of paper to draw the strategy fails to reach the owner of free hosting :)

Try to see the top free hosting companies and you will see why they are still alive. Just think, that is all you need.
 
TSO said:
But your domain was only registered in May 2010.
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Sometimes people do business under a different domain in the past. Not sure if that's the case here, but something to keep in mind.

We tell people that we've been in business for over 10 years. When they run a check on our domain (deckerservices.com) they see that it's been registered since October of 2006, so only 4 years. But prior to that, we did business under the DBA of "DeepList PC Services" using the domain deeplist.com which has been registered since September of 2000... a total of 11 years and 4 months.

Don't always believe that the registration date of the domain was the beginning of the company.
 
We are about to close Gethost (the Whitesystem's free webhosting program), as there is no profit on it, but thats how it works, this is the third Gethost program, we just open some free slots, people come and take them, then we close it. People remain active on a private forum for the program, some of them are happy with us so they upgrade their plans, etc.

I think that free hosting companies must be on a franchise, or at least having premium plans, or placing a ton of ads in a single website, just to survive... having a free-webhost, offering TBs for free, without ads, that just doesn't make any sense...
 
deeplist said:
Sometimes people do business under a different domain in the past. Not sure if that's the case here, but something to keep in mind.

We tell people that we've been in business for over 10 years. When they run a check on our domain (deckerservices.com) they see that it's been registered since October of 2006, so only 4 years. But prior to that, we did business under the DBA of "DeepList PC Services" using the domain deeplist.com which has been registered since September of 2000... a total of 11 years and 4 months.

Don't always believe that the registration date of the domain was the beginning of the company.
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Of course, but that's rare. Especially in the hosting world. ;)
 
You can make money if you offer domain registering. Or free domains on premium plans. If the client don't pay next year to continue the domain, you can put there all your adds so you will have adds on already optimized web page, maybe even with a good PR too.
 
I have saw this same scenario ever since I started coming to these forums 9 years ago. Nothing has changed. Every single kiddie on here wants to start some free host and offer hosting to everybody who wants it. They're around for a month or so and then disappear into thin air after their funding dries up or they're shut down because of piracy, warez, or whatever.

On the other side of the coin, I see a ton of people come through here that want gigs and gigs of space for nothing and they just bounce around from one "free" host to the next. People don't seem to understand that running a hosting business costs money. You can't just hand out services to every single person and get nothing in return. It will NOT work.

You get what you pay for. Do your homework. Pay a few bucks a month and get some premium services!
 
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My suggestion is not to start free webhosting services unless you can run it. It is worthy than creating free hosts and killing them immediately after you get no profit from it.
At least your client's data are safe. :p
 
@deeplist
not only that, some of the requesters even scold you like hell when u offer some low disk space and bandwidth, even though they are asking for free hosting...
 
A lot of people are looking for hosts that offer unrealistic limits like 1gb of disk space, which they'll never be able to use because most hosts don't allow file or video hosting. It's highly unlikely a user will ever use that much space with just css/javascript/html/php/image files.

The more important elements to concentrate on instead of giving out copious disk space, are bandwidth, uptime and features.
 
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STreak said:
The more important elements to concentrate on instead of giving out copious disk space, are bandwidth, uptime and features.
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And important also... the time in which the host has been around. Somebody with 99.98% uptime over the last several years is more preferable to somebody with 99.99% uptime over the last 2 months.
 
honestly, there are no problems with young people giving away free hosting, i know a few sites who are good at it.

its just that there are people who abuse their host. they beg and beg for space and bandwidth but can't even put up a decent site, tbh. its either they go for porn or make their host suffer from too much resource eating scripts.

and yeah some of you guys are truly right, its not because of school but a mood swing lolz! today they want a free hosting site, tomorrow be gone, >.< they want another... pretty crazy.
 
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Clayton said:
Of course there are also the guys who build a free host then sell it to someone else who eventually ends up closing it down :)
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Some other people end up closing down, just because they can't gaurentee they're getting enough fund to carry on business...
 
Funny, i found alot of people on TaoPhoenix study post thought i was gonna croak alot, but clearly i havent and have been going very strong with about 4+ servers :)

It pays off, if you wait and advertise. clients are not gonna come in overnight.
 
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colorhost said:
Funny, i found alot of people on TaoPhoenix study post thought i was gonna croak alot, but clearly i havent and have been going very strong with about 4+ servers :)

It pays off, if you wait and advertise. clients are not gonna come in overnight.
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And ... yes. Predictions are only statistical. Colorhost had one bad bump in the middle, but they're still here, and that's why they're on my board.
 
The free hosting scene is changing totally. What do you know, even geocities got shut down. They were awfully big.

I think social networks are the main key factor here. Because many people who were using free hosting to share their photo are now using facebook. Which is easier to manage than a free host.

Its tough to know what free hosting clients are looking for now days. Apart from image hosting, file hosting can be a key but still you have rapidshare and hotfile and a zillion others offering that service freely.

Hmm what else could be hot for free hosters. I think php, asp, asp.net hosting is the key selling point for a free host now days. So that people can learn using the space and scripts. Any more ideas?
 
Idea ? First of all clients need a host where all their scripts will work. By scripts I mean CMS, PHP scripts like portal, forum, guestbook.
You think if you offer php and mysql then all scripts will work ? no. It depends on your server settings.
If my script is not working well, I will have to find another host.
 
AboutWeb said:
Idea ? First of all clients need a host where all their scripts will work. By scripts I mean CMS, PHP scripts like portal, forum, guestbook.
You think if you offer php and mysql then all scripts will work ? no. It depends on your server settings.
If my script is not working well, I will have to find another host.
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And some functions have to be limited on free hosting due to the nature of the service and its seemingly endless attraction of abusers. If you're constantly running into trouble, I'd suggest looking at paid hosting. If your scripts are truly only simple blogs, CMS, and forums, they should run fine on most free hosting platforms. Anything that you're trying to do which causes you to run into errors is probably a security or resource issue on free hosting platforms that dictates a long-term need for paid hosting on your part anyway.
 
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