Offering web hosting services for over five years now, Freehostia is slightly different from the rest.\u00a0 A new customer can start out with a free web hosting account to try out the services and move up to a paid account accordingly.\u00a0 Sure, there are a few hosting companies out there that offer similar free accounts, but Freehostia does it without forced advertising.<\/p>\n
Accounts offered<\/strong><\/p>\n Freehostia offers five different account levels \u2013 Chocolate, Watercircle, Lovebeat, Wildhoney and Supernatural.\u00a0 These plans range in pricing from free to $9.95 a month.<\/p>\n Chocolate \u2013 250 MB in disk space, 6 GB bandwidth, 3 PHP3\/IMAP e-mail accounts, 1 MySQL database, 10 MB database space – free<\/p>\n Watercircle \u2013 500 MB in disk space, 12 GB bandwidth, 100 POP3\/IMAP e-mail accounts, 2 MySQL databases, 25 MB database space – $2.95 a month<\/p>\n Lovebeat \u2013 12000 MB in disk space, 150 GB bandwidth, 300 PHP3\/IMAP e-mail accounts, 8 MySQL databases, 60 MB database space – $4.95 a month<\/p>\n Wildhoney \u2013 35000 MB in disk space, 400 GB bandwidth, free domain name, 15 MySQL databases, 90 MB database space – $7.95 a month<\/p>\n Supernatural \u2013 90000 MB in disk space, 900 GB bandwidth, free domain name, 50 MySQL databases, 120 MB database space – $9.95 a month<\/p>\n 1-Click installer<\/strong><\/p>\n Elefante is offered with all accounts (even the free account).\u00a0 The Elefante installer is a software platform that enables web site owners to quickly install a variety of programs with a single click of the mouse button.\u00a0 Over 40 PHP scripts are offered in categories such as wikis, blogs, CMS, e-commerce and more.<\/p>\n Some of the more popular blog software offerings are Movable Type, WordPress, and b2evolution.\u00a0 The CMS programs within Elefante are a bit more impressive of a list \u2013 Drupal, Mambo, Moodle, Joomla and eight other popular CMS programs are available.\u00a0 In the category of e-commerce, Elefante offers osCommRes and osCommerce.\u00a0 All in all, Elefante is a great added feature to all Freehostia accounts.<\/p>\n Support<\/strong><\/p>\n Freehostia has a customer care department at work 24×7.\u00a0 All hosting customers (with the exception of those using free hosting) can expect to receive an answer within 1 hour of contacting the support department.\u00a0 Free hosting customers are not completely disregarded but aren’t given priority \u2013 expected support answer waiting time is 6 hours.<\/p>\n The hosting company offers video tutorials, FAQs, a knowledge base and a ticketing system for support as well.\u00a0 The online contact form is easily found within Freehostia’s support area.\u00a0 While not the most expansive of support areas, Freehostia offers a good solid range of options when one is in need of assistance.<\/p>\n Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n With most free hosting accounts offered by web hosting businesses requiring that advertising be present on all web pages, it’s nice to find a company that not only offers ad-free accounts for no charge but also gives free hosting clients the standard features one would expect from a paid service.\u00a0 Add in the ability to upgrade to accounts that are very economical, Freehostia is a web hosting service worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Offering web hosting services for over five years now, Freehostia is slightly different from the rest.\u00a0 A new customer can start out with a free web hosting account to try…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1319,1318,35,1305,549,1131],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-hosting-types","tag-elefante","tag-forced-advertising","tag-free-hosting","tag-freehostia","tag-paid-web-hosting","tag-web-hosting-services"],"views":84,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}