FreeServers.com Starter, $ 5.95/mo. on Linux Shared


Starter has been discontinued (added ), Aggregate Rating (2 out of 10 from 2 reviews)
freeservers.com
FreeServers.com
21255 Burbank Boulevard, Suite 400,
Woodland Hills , CA CA 91367
US
☎ Phone 1-800-396-1999

freeservers.com is inactive webhosting company!
  • 💡 Plan Name: Starter (sku #p41215)
  • 🔧 Category: Shared Hosting / Linux
  • 💰 Price:$ 5.95/mo.Discontinued
  • 💿 Disk Space: 1 GB
  • 📶 Traffic bandwidth: 10 GB
  • 💲 Setup Fee: free
🔌 Hosted domains :1
🆓 free domains :0
📌 Dedicated IPs :0
💳 Payment Methods :Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :[In-house]
🔧 Category :Website Builder
✍️ Support Options :Phone / Toll-Free
Targeting :US
screenshot of Starter from freeservers.com

Original plan URL was http://www.freeservers.com/cgi-bin/show_me?page=hosting_compare


*📜 Plan description

Starter Hosting is the first paid plan and is designed for customers who have outgrown the limitations of the free account but still run relatively small sites. Setup fees are waived and the pricing table shows several billing options: paying month to month costs 8.95 dollars per month, a six month term lowers the effective rate to 6.95 dollars per month, and both one year and two year terms bring the price down to 5.95 dollars per month, which is the base monthly price recorded here. Disk space increases to 1 GB, allowing for more complex layouts, larger image galleries and a greater number of downloadable files than the free plan. The upload file size limit rises sharply to 50 MB, making it feasible to host richer media and larger documents without splitting them into tiny parts. Monthly bandwidth is raised to 10 GB so the plan can comfortably handle more frequent visitors and heavier pages while still remaining oriented to smaller sites. You can create up to 25 email accounts on your domain, enough for a small office with individual mailboxes and several role based addresses such as info, support or sales. Stats and reports are marked as beginner level, providing friendly charts and summaries that help you understand visitor trends without overwhelming detail. Banner advertising is removed, meaning your pages no longer show provider inserted banners or popups and can present a cleaner, more professional appearance. FTP access is enabled so you can upload files directly from design tools or development environments, although WordPress blog hosting and CGI with PHP, Perl and MySQL are still not listed as available on this tier. Starter Hosting therefore suits individuals and small organisations that need a banner free site, more email capacity and basic FTP based publishing, but do not yet need the scripting and database features of the higher packages.

Across all FreeServers shared hosting packages you get access to the same member area, the in house site builder and a collection of templates so even first time users can assemble pages without learning HTML from scratch. The product range is aimed at personal sites, small organisations and independent professionals that want straightforward web hosting rather than complex cloud infrastructure. Every package advertises a waived setup fee so you only pay the recurring hosting charge after arranging a domain name. Disk quotas, file size limits, bandwidth allowances and email account counts increase as you move up the ladder, and each paid plan removes banner advertising so business sites and portfolios look clean and professional. Higher tiers add beginner or professional level statistics reporting together with CGI scripting, PHP, Perl, MySQL and WordPress blog support so you can run dynamic applications instead of only static pages. All hosting plans use the same general structure, making it simple to start on a lower tier and upgrade without moving your content to a different provider. A customer service department can be reached via a toll free phone number to help you compare packages or resolve basic account questions, and the consistent control panel style member area keeps management tasks familiar as you grow.

📄 Editorial Review

FreeServers is one of the "old guard" of web hosting. The brand dates back to the late 1990s, when it started as a free web hosting offshoot of Utah-based North Sky, a company that quickly gained traction by letting users put their own name first in the URL (for example, john.freeservers.com). The free hosting service launched publicly in June 1998 and was acquired by About.com in 1999, before eventually ending up under United Online Web Services, Inc., where it sits today.
Among the companies that are part of this group we mention: BizHosting, 50Megs, GlobalServers, FreeStats and SiteTracker (many of them inactive)

The product line is very narrow by modern standards. There is no VPS, no dedicated servers, no reseller hosting, and no cloud or managed offerings. Everything revolves around shared hosting on Linux plus a long-running free plan and some domain-related services. The stack is built around an in-house control panel, a website builder, basic mail hosting and a domain manager.

The platform is structured around five main plans:
  • Free plan – ad-supported, with around 50 MB of storage and about 1 GB monthly transfer. It does not provide PHP, MySQL, CGI or WordPress support and comes with tight file size limits and no FTP access. It is really a lightweight way to keep a small static or almost-static site online in exchange for banners and promotional email.
  • Starter hosting – the entry paid tier, roughly 1 GB of disk space and 10 GB transfer. This plan is geared toward simple brochure-style sites that don’t need server-side scripting. It drops ads, adds FTP access and phone support, but still does not enable PHP/MySQL.
  • Personal hosting – a more complete shared plan with around 5 GB of storage and 50 GB monthly traffic. This is where PHP, MySQL, Perl/CGI and WordPress support enter the picture, along with enough resources for a modest blog or dynamic small-business site.
  • Professional hosting – pushes storage to about 10 GB and bandwidth to roughly 100 GB per month, keeping the same technology stack (PHP, MySQL, WordPress) and support model. This is intended for more active sites that still don’t require cutting-edge resources.
  • Business hosting – the top shared tier, again 10 GB disk but up to about 1 TB of transfer, plus higher file size limits. It uses the same in-house control panel and scripting capabilities as Personal/Professional, with more generous traffic allowances that can cope with higher visitor counts.

Across all paid plans, features are fairly conservative: quotas are fixed (not "unlimited"), databases are available only on the mid-range and higher tiers, and there is no sign of extras like free SSL certificates, staging environments, or one-click deployment of modern frameworks. The free and Starter plans in particular feel like early-2000s hosting in terms of technical scope.

The overall impression is of a legacy shared hosting platform that still functions, but has not kept pace with the feature sets and ergonomics of newer providers. For someone who just wants a cheap, basic Linux account with a long-running brand behind it, FreeServers can still fill that role, but it is not trying to compete at the high end.

As of December 2025, freeservers.com appears largely neglected: the site does not enforce HTTPS, which strongly suggests the business is no longer actively maintained.

👪 Most Recent Customer Reviews

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https://www.facebook.com/jasarthur (admin@j...) / jamesmusicstudio.com
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😞 I agree -- worst customer service ever!
Every year like clockwork my email messages vanish from my inbox. Freeservers wants $75 to restore what THEY DELETED! In the past I've gotten them to see it is their fault, but this year they are being stubborn. I've been around and around with tech support for 3 months now, and am about to give up. I have a small commercial site that works well, is easy to edit and manage, so in that area I'm content. But the email problem is horrible and they should be ashamed.
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-anonymous- (-no email-)
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😠 WOW -PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THIS HORRIBLE COMPANY!!!
They are in Philippines and it looks like they have 2 horrible people in the beisment running these servers!!!!
They do not care about you or anyone else! I had to suffer over 14 years with them because I was afraid to change my domain with build SEO - links and history.
I'm happy now that I ran away from them!

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