✔ Free Hostia review

📄 Editorial Review

🔃 Free Hostia is part of LiquidNet
🔧 Services: Web HostingDomain Registration

Freehostia, just like its name says, offers free hosting accounts and they use load balanced cluster technology on their internet platform.

The company specializes in the following web hosting products:

• Shared Hosting;
• VPS Hosting;
• Dedicated Servers;
• Semi-Dedicated Servers;
• Domain Registration;

Shared hosting packages are designed for multiple kinds of websites including forums, blogs, online shops or personal websites. Customers can host more than one domain with one account and include the 1-click app installer. Plans are also easily upgradable. From the list of optional features that can come with your shared hosting plan, we mention:

• Mailing lists;
• Mailing List Mmebers;
• Web-based SSD;
• Node.js;
• SSH/Telnet;
• Redis, Memcached, Varnish (w/Hepsia);

VPS servers are configured on OpenVZ and KVM virtualization. Default features include: full root access, SSH access and 1 dedicated IP.

Semi-dedicated servers come with an unlimited set of features:

• Unlimited disk space;
• Unlimited data traffic;
• Unlimited hosted domains;
• Unlimited e-mail accounts;
• Unlimited MySQL databases;
• Unlimited mailing lists;

Dedicated servers operate on gigabit custom-built network. These run on Linux distributions (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu). All dedicated servers include one free unique dedicated IP.

💰 Price & Cost

They promise cost-effective plans for their customers and they stay true to this promise: they offer low-price plans when compared to other providers in the hosting industry.
Their free web plan offers customers the possibility to test their services here for 30 days. This is fully packed, so you can get the full experience.
Freehostia is a risk-free company as they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee for customers who are not satisfied by their services.

⌛ Reliability

They offer the standard 99.9% uptime availability for their services.

🏢 Data Center

Their data center is located in Steadfast, Chicago. This operates with a large peering network and has a custom-built Intranet network.

✍️ Customer Support

In order to get in touch with tech support, customers can contact them on phone, e-mail or ticket support. They are active on Facebook as well, so customers can write to them there.
As alternative support resources, customers can also access their FAQ section or their forum to check out solutions in case they encounter problems with server management.

🔨 Control Panel

The company uses Hepsia custom-built control panel. They offer a multilingual control panel available in 15 languages including: English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, Bulgarian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Czech, Norwegian or Chinese (simplified and traditional).

In case customers prefer other control panels, such as cPanel or DirectAdmin, they can choose to install it for themselves, but cPanel installation requires customers to pay a fee for this.

🎯 Conclusion

Freehostia offers a great selection of hosting services equipped with necessary and optional features and tools. Their plans are budget-friendly and customers can get their money back within 30 days from the moment of purchase in case they are not satisfied by what the company offers. You can also choose their fully equipped free hosting plan to test their services.

They use Hepsia for their administration tool, but customers can install other control panels (cPanel/DirectAdmin) in case they are not familiar with this one.
Overall, Freehostia is a reliable choice where to host your website.

🌏 Server locations:

Chicago

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