Review: 000Webhost

After using 000Webhost for over a year, here’s what we think about the service. Are we satisfied or disgruntled, get to know after the break. 

Activation 

Making an account at 000Webhost is easy, getting it activated isn’t. It is promised that the desired account will be activated in under 24 hours, but with all the domains we hosted here, this never happened. Moreover, the user, after some time, is told that his/her account has been activated, when in fact that is not the case.

Hosting 

For as long as we used this service, we never felt that the hosting was bad. Our site would go down occasionally, but that only happened in times when there was too much load on the server. The outages generally never lasted longer than 30 minutes and most of the times, hitting the refresh button several times would do the trick.  However, despite having a lite website, loading times were pretty ordinary.  All in all, we were extremely satisfied with the service we received because all we were paying them was-nothing. In case you didn’t know already, a free account at 000Webhost gives you 1.5GBs of storage and 100GBs of bandwidth.

Inside

First thing’s first, 000Webhost’s stock file manager is probably worst thing on the service. You are logged out automatically even if you are actively using the file manager. So, you have to go back to the C-panel and open the file manager all over again. There is another file manager available, and we believe it works better than the default one. As far as uploading files is concerned, you can only upload files that are less than 5MB in size. If you are thinking you’ll be able to squeeze an upload sized 4.8MBs, you are mistaken; we have tried that, it doesn’t work. There is no problem if you intend to install WordPress on your new site. But, if you are thinking of having Joomla!, think again. Most Joomla! packages are in excess of 5MBs, the ones that aren’t are old versions. Would you like to see what 000Webhost’s C-panel looks like, refer to the image below.

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Conclusion

We are extremely satisfied with the service we received from 000Webhost. The are shortcomings, but you should always remember that this is a free service. We used the hosting service for about a year and didn’t pay a single penny. Also, people use such services like crazy; they deliberately put extra load on the servers, host spam websites-what not. This makes life all the more tougher for this company. But, the way the service is being managed is good to see. To conclude, we would recommend this service to people who want to try out WordPress, or a entry-level hosting service, for that matter. We wouldn’t, however, advise people who want to make a living out of their website to use 000Webhost.

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