FreeServers.com Personal, $ 9.95/mo. on Linux Shared


Personal has been discontinued (added ), Aggregate Rating (1 out of 10 from 1 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: Personal (sku #p41216)
  • 🔧 Category: Shared Hosting / Linux
  • 💰 Price:$ 9.95/mo.Discontinued
  • 💿 Disk Space: 5 GB
  • 📶 Traffic bandwidth: 50 GB
  • 💲 Setup Fee: free
🔌 Hosted domains :1
🆓 free domains :0
📌 Dedicated IPs :0
💳 Payment Methods :Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :[In-house]
🔧 Category :WordpressWebsite Builder
✍️ Support Options :Phone / Toll-Free
Targeting :US
screenshot of Personal from freeservers.com

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


*📜 Plan description

Personal Hosting is aimed at serious personal sites and small businesses that need database driven applications and blogging tools in addition to traditional static pages. Setup fees are waived and the pricing options show that a one month term costs 17.95 dollars per month, six months costs 16.95 dollars per month, a full year costs 12.95 dollars per month and a two year term drops the effective rate to 9.95 dollars per month, which is the value used here as the base price. Disk space rises substantially to 5 GB, which is sufficient for many product pages, large image galleries and downloadable resources. The upload file size limit reaches 500 MB, making it practical to host sizable PDF brochures, audio clips or other larger media files. Monthly bandwidth is expanded to 50 GB so the plan can accommodate a much higher level of visitors and richer content than the lower tiers. Email capacity grows to 100 accounts, providing enough mailboxes for a whole team plus departmental addresses and long term archiving. Stats and reports remain in the beginner category but cover more detailed metrics so you can see how visitors navigate through the site. Banners and popups are still absent so presentations remain clean. FTP access is enabled and, for the first time in the range, WordPress blog support and CGI access with PHP, Perl and MySQL are included, enabling you to run popular applications such as blogs, forums and custom dynamic pages that rely on databases. Personal Hosting therefore offers a strong balance between resource quotas and features, targeting users who need modern scripting capability without yet requiring the very largest hosting plan.

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.

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😠 SCAMMERS BEWARE freeservers .s5.com FRAUD
This is a horrible company to host your site on...here is what they did to my client. They offer these urls with the site. Then after you get your site built and you have all those links pointing to it and have a good ranking in the search engines, they will write you a letter and tell you you must change your URL to a new one. They will NOT redirect your traffic to the new URL, instead they will put up a ad that says your Old URL is available along with an ad to buy a website from them. They recently done this with the s5.com extension. You can protest all you want to to these people they said they would not redirect the traffic to the new url (currently called mysite.com) Stay away from these people they will ruin your business by taking over your URL and making it into a marking tool for their profit and all your hard work will be for nothing. THEY ARE CROOKED BEWARE! Don't let them ruin your business like they did to our client. There are plenty of good providers out there with a lot more to offer at a fraction of the cost. For example one with godaddy is currently offering unlimited number of sites for about $5.00 monthly (special). And then there is YOLA offering 25 sites for about $8 month.....don't get your business ruined by these crooks!!! Shop around there are plenty of good providers. If you are still with these people your should move your site and put the redirects to the new location before they take over your url and wreck your business.

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