free gigarocket alternative - now that will close
- Thread starter Kreesher
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@Kreesher Please check in at the Forum as one never knows. This is supposed to be a temporary thing. I don't think we'll ever have cpanel hosting again, but directadmin may be a possibility in the near future.
I've got a free hosting account with Afreecloud.com - however KuJoe, the owner only provides 250 MB space. It comes with DirectAdmin Panel. I've had a VestaCP account with afreecloud since 2016. Which recently changed to DirectAdmin. It is fast and reliable, but of course not cpanel. With little disk space.
https://afreecloud.com/
@binil mentioned that he has a cpanel license with a reseller account and is thinking to start a forum with free shared hosting as well. Hopefully he will be keeping in touch and let us know about his plans.
I've got a free hosting account with Afreecloud.com - however KuJoe, the owner only provides 250 MB space. It comes with DirectAdmin Panel. I've had a VestaCP account with afreecloud since 2016. Which recently changed to DirectAdmin. It is fast and reliable, but of course not cpanel. With little disk space.
https://afreecloud.com/
@binil mentioned that he has a cpanel license with a reseller account and is thinking to start a forum with free shared hosting as well. Hopefully he will be keeping in touch and let us know about his plans.
Yozora
Moderator
I used to hang around https://freewebspace.net/forums/ and https://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=259 looking for free hosting before I found GigaRocket. Be warned that free hosts tend to disappear suddenly, without warning, so it's a good idea to make frequent backups.
In general the free hosts I've tried have all had issues...
Most of them disappeared one day and aren't around anymore.
Heliohost.org, x10hosting.com, and InstaFree.com were very slow. (Though it looks like of those hosts only Heliohost is currently accepting new sign-ups. ) Also, they all tend to delete accounts of people who don't log in to their control panel after a while.
Post2Host hosts are typically better quality than instant activation hosts because they weed out a lot of spammers and people who would use their hosting space for nefarious purposes. I also used to search for "free cPanel hosting" on search engines, but with cPanel's price increases DirectAdmin might be the new most popular control panel option for quality free hosting.
I looked around and couldn't find a new free host which fit my requirements, so I bit the bullet and searched hosting forums for discounts on paid hosting until I found a host I liked which met my requirements. I realize that not everyone can afford to do this though.
It's great that Binil is setting up his own Post2Host hosting service! Keep us all updated with your progress!
In general the free hosts I've tried have all had issues...
Most of them disappeared one day and aren't around anymore.
Heliohost.org, x10hosting.com, and InstaFree.com were very slow. (Though it looks like of those hosts only Heliohost is currently accepting new sign-ups. ) Also, they all tend to delete accounts of people who don't log in to their control panel after a while.
Post2Host hosts are typically better quality than instant activation hosts because they weed out a lot of spammers and people who would use their hosting space for nefarious purposes. I also used to search for "free cPanel hosting" on search engines, but with cPanel's price increases DirectAdmin might be the new most popular control panel option for quality free hosting.
I looked around and couldn't find a new free host which fit my requirements, so I bit the bullet and searched hosting forums for discounts on paid hosting until I found a host I liked which met my requirements. I realize that not everyone can afford to do this though.
It's great that Binil is setting up his own Post2Host hosting service! Keep us all updated with your progress!
fitkoh
Member
I had a few idling vps that need to crunch some data, so I'm setting up a highly experimental shared hosting platform designed around a post4host concept. It is online and functional, but still very much in the testing phase while I try to refine some processes.
What makes this service unique or different from all the other free hosts? Minimalism.
If anyone is interested in being a guinea pig or test subject for this experimental new hosting platform, feel free to pm me.
What makes this service unique or different from all the other free hosts? Minimalism.
If anyone is interested in being a guinea pig or test subject for this experimental new hosting platform, feel free to pm me.
Kreesher said:
@Kreesher The project has already been started. You can check out details in this discussion:
https://www.gigarocket.net/forum/thread-16409-post-90824.html#pid90824
Hi Kreesher. Compliments of the season to you.
I checked my hosting account and my WordPress access is OK. Could be that I set up my WP differently - manually with my own databases and uploading the script through the File Manager. I hate the Softaculous installer. Like usually it is reliable, but if it is reset for any reason, or not renewed (which I think could be a possibility), then it effects your access to the installation.
BTW you should really try out the hosting from @fitkoh as well. You can PM him here at @fitkoh. I was totally blown away with his free panel, that runs better than cPanel and the functions it has are more intuitive and work super fast. It has a WordPress installer on it that is blazingly fast. Mostly because fitkoh has set up the hosting with mysql running remotely on its own dedicated VPS. But on the same node as the web hosting.
I think it may be a good idea to have a backup shared service. So I value both @binil and @fikoh's services very much. @binil has the 5-star royal cpanel hosting. And @fikoh's is very interesting, almost genius in how he has set it up. His principle is minimalist and free. Even the domain for his hosting service was a freebee dot.design domain. He runs the database from WebMin. So this was the first time with setting my WordPress up that I haven't used localhost. The WordPress installer is fantastic, but I did the manual installation to get a feel for everything. File Manager for me is even better than the one for cPanel - it has everything one needs and no need for FTP. To keep things minimalist and also secure Fitkoh has no FTP, e-mail or DNS installed in the panel. So this was also an interesting experience for me as up to now I was used to getting name servers from the host. I learned how to set A records with the domain registrar instead. Didn't even realize it was possible to do it that way, and was delightfully surprised, as DNS from Namecheap was much better than what I'd had from Contabo through Gigarocket. And Contabo's was always very good. Namecheap's DNS is just that much better than already very good.
I checked my hosting account and my WordPress access is OK. Could be that I set up my WP differently - manually with my own databases and uploading the script through the File Manager. I hate the Softaculous installer. Like usually it is reliable, but if it is reset for any reason, or not renewed (which I think could be a possibility), then it effects your access to the installation.
BTW you should really try out the hosting from @fitkoh as well. You can PM him here at @fitkoh. I was totally blown away with his free panel, that runs better than cPanel and the functions it has are more intuitive and work super fast. It has a WordPress installer on it that is blazingly fast. Mostly because fitkoh has set up the hosting with mysql running remotely on its own dedicated VPS. But on the same node as the web hosting.
I think it may be a good idea to have a backup shared service. So I value both @binil and @fikoh's services very much. @binil has the 5-star royal cpanel hosting. And @fikoh's is very interesting, almost genius in how he has set it up. His principle is minimalist and free. Even the domain for his hosting service was a freebee dot.design domain. He runs the database from WebMin. So this was the first time with setting my WordPress up that I haven't used localhost. The WordPress installer is fantastic, but I did the manual installation to get a feel for everything. File Manager for me is even better than the one for cPanel - it has everything one needs and no need for FTP. To keep things minimalist and also secure Fitkoh has no FTP, e-mail or DNS installed in the panel. So this was also an interesting experience for me as up to now I was used to getting name servers from the host. I learned how to set A records with the domain registrar instead. Didn't even realize it was possible to do it that way, and was delightfully surprised, as DNS from Namecheap was much better than what I'd had from Contabo through Gigarocket. And Contabo's was always very good. Namecheap's DNS is just that much better than already very good.
fitkoh
Member
hosting service is plodding along quite faithfully.
I'm examining the possibility of adding in dns + email in the future, but I'm not entirely committed to that path. I've found filegator is a great stand in for ftp. Also looking at adding diversity to the selection of free hosting panels and operating systems. I currently have servers running Ubuntu 18, CentOS 7, and Debian 10, set up with either Cyberpanel, Webmin, or CentOS Web Panel and Apache, Nginx, or OpenLiteSpeed.
I'm examining the possibility of adding in dns + email in the future, but I'm not entirely committed to that path. I've found filegator is a great stand in for ftp. Also looking at adding diversity to the selection of free hosting panels and operating systems. I currently have servers running Ubuntu 18, CentOS 7, and Debian 10, set up with either Cyberpanel, Webmin, or CentOS Web Panel and Apache, Nginx, or OpenLiteSpeed.
For me at the level of hosting that is provided, i.e. with junior space, the less frills the better. If one gets to 10 GB space and more senior hosting, then e-mail, DNS etc would be expected.fitkoh said:
I like it that you don't have the frills, as it makes the hosting on the junior level so much faster, more streamlined and efficient. It works very well.
If I may ask, out of Ubuntu and CentOS, which one in your experience works the better with CyberPanel?
fitkoh
Member
Genesis said:
There are other benefits too: the smaller scope and decentralized nature of my hosting service allows me to be fairly generous with bandwidth, if less so in disk space: I can offer roughly 100x data transfer vs disk.
About Centos and Ubuntu, they both work about the same in terms of functionality. The main difference I've noticed is ubuntu seems to be a bit faster, but runs a bit heavier on system resources. Centos seems to run more efficiently but is just slightly slower.