FreeHostia Chocolate Plan, $ 0.00/mo. on Linux Shared

Chocolate Plan has been updated on August 18, 2025 (added January 27, 2018), Aggregate Rating (5.5 out of 10 from 2 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	5
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalBitcoin
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]
🔧 Category :	WordpressWebsite Builder
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskAvailable 24/7
⚑ Targeting :	CA UK US
🚀 Uptime :	99.9 %

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Active since 2005, FreeHostia combines an unusually durable free-hosting offer with paid shared, virtual, and physical server products. The brand belongs jointly to LiquidNet US LLC, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, and LiquidNet Ltd. in London, United Kingdom. Both companies participate in billing and service delivery, so the legal relationship is with the LiquidNet entities rather than with a separately incorporated FreeHostia company.

Its catalog covers free shared hosting, paid cluster-based cloud hosting, domain registration and transfers, KVM and OpenVZ VPS hosting, semi-dedicated hosting, and dedicated servers. Reseller-oriented customers can use Hepsia subaccounts on eligible servers or build a more complete storefront through ResellersPanel, another LiquidNet operation. The latter is a distinct platform, so buyers who want a single account and support path for every reseller function should account for that separation.

The best-known offer is the Chocolate plan: five hosted domains, 250 MB disk space, 6 GB monthly traffic, three email accounts, and one MySQL 5 database limited to 10 MB, all at no charge and without forced banner ads. It is practical for a small static site, a classroom exercise, a temporary project, or a simple personal page. It is far less suitable for a growing CMS because SMTP is disabled, each uploaded file is limited to 2 MB, outbound-dependent functions can be constrained, and the database ceiling is exceptionally small. Only one free account is permitted per customer. Annual add-ons can extend bandwidth, domains, subdomains, databases, storage, dedicated-IP use, or SMTP-enabled email, but several upgrades quickly erase the economic advantage of remaining on the free tier.

The paid shared products run on a load-balanced cluster; the word "cloud" here refers to distributed shared-hosting functions, not to customer-controlled elastic instances. Watercircle accommodates ten domains, 500 GB storage, 50 GB monthly transfer, 100 mailboxes, eight MySQL databases, and 250 MB of MySQL storage. Lovebeat expands this to 20 domains, 2 TB storage, 1 TB transfer, 300 mailboxes, 15 databases, and 1 GB of database capacity. Wildhoney removes the published limits for domains, disk space, transfer, and email while supplying 50 databases with 4 GB of MySQL storage. Supernatural retains the unlimited resource approach and increases the database count to 100 with unlimited MySQL storage. The two upper plans bundle one eligible domain registration or transfer and include 5 GB of VPN traffic.

Core shared features include ZFS storage, NVMe caching, Dropbox backup integration, shared SSL addresses, ModSecurity, Let's Encrypt, DNSSEC, JailHost isolation, hotlink controls, and protected directories. Domain tools handle standard DNS record types, WHOIS settings, registrar locking, EPP protection, backorders, and optional identity protection. Email is managed through RoundCube and includes forwarding, autoresponders, catch-all handling, spam filtering, antivirus checks, SPF, and DomainKeys. The platform supports PHP 4 through PHP 8, Perl, Python, InnoDB, phpMyAdmin, ImageMagick, GD, IonCube, SSI, and cron. Higher packages unlock Memcached, Redis, Varnish, Node.js, supervisor processes, SSH, additional FTP accounts, and guest users.

The breadth of that stack is useful, although it also exposes age. Microsoft FrontPage extensions, very old PHP generations, PostgreSQL 9.2 allocations on semi-dedicated accounts, and several old downloadable operating-system images sit beside current Linux templates. Likewise, the proprietary installer offers more than 50 PHP applications in 13 categories but retains both recent and legacy branches for some packages. A one-click deployment is convenient, yet administrators should check the selected version, its security status, and its update route rather than treating installation as ongoing maintenance.

A Website Builder adds more than 100 responsive themes and drag-and-drop editing. It can assemble blogs, galleries, ecommerce elements, community pages, contact forms, and maps, and includes tutorial videos plus per-page SEO and analytics fields. Paid shared plans include the builder; the free plan offers it as an upgrade. This gives novices a workable route to a mobile-friendly site without a separate CMS, while experienced customers can instead use the application installer or upload their own code.

KVM service ranges from the two-core Hyper plan with 4 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe storage, 4 TB transfer, and one IPv4 address to the eight-core Supercollider with 32 GB RAM, 480 GB storage, and 7 TB transfer. Sniper and Collider form the intermediate steps at four cores/8 GB RAM and six cores/16 GB RAM. Every KVM includes root and SSH access, and current templates cover AlmaLinux, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, FreeBSD, openSUSE, and Rocky Linux. OpenVZ provides the lighter container alternative with weekly backups, assisted migration, and optional managed administration. Root access is available when Hepsia is not controlling the environment.

Customers who need more resources without operating a full VPS can choose semi-dedicated hosting. Boabab allocates one CPU core, five PostgreSQL databases, five cron jobs, one dedicated address, and up to 90,000 MySQL queries per hour, alongside unlimited published quotas for domains, storage, transfer, email, and MySQL. Sequoia provides two cores, ten PostgreSQL databases, unlimited cron jobs, and 130,000 MySQL queries per hour. Both packages include SSH, daily data backups, migration, accelerators, a 30-day trial, and the shared platform's site, mail, DNS, and security tools.

Dedicated capacity begins with older low-power Xeon platforms and extends to Xeon Scalable and AMD EPYC hardware. Inventory is live and can change between visits. Among orderable examples, Pacific 2 uses four cores, 16 GB DDR4 and two 240 GB SATA SSDs, while Pacific 4 uses six cores, 16 GB RAM, the same basic disk arrangement, and 20 TB transfer. Larger configurations add NVMe drives, ECC memory, and much higher core counts. Each server includes a gigabit interface, one dedicated IP address, root and SSH access, operating-system installation, optional storage expansion, and no setup fee. A new machine is assembled for each order rather than reassigned as an already-configured account.

The storefront is in English and offers price conversion among USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, and CAD. Hepsia supports more than 15 interface choices, including English, Spanish, German, French, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Dutch, Romanian, Czech, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. The site retains a dense, older visual style and a few stale catalog links, but its ordering controls, comparisons, currency selection, and account access still function in current browsers.

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