Brace yourselves for impact, folks
One more free host spotted, and so far, this is the very best one I have tried, and it rivals even paid hosting in features. It might feature lower numbers than the others, but this one's definitely a top contender currently, and superfriendly at that too
(tickets answered under 4 hours usually). Given its obvious advantage over other hosts, no way I could keep that to myself
NO CATCH (it certainly lives up to this name
)
www.NoCatch.net
The following features come standard with all free No Catch accounts:
* 500 mb diskspace
* 5,000 mb monthly bandwidth
* Free subdomain (yourname.nocatch.net)
* Ability to use your own domain if already purchased
* Custom control panel for easy site management
* Easy application installer - Install 20 popular programs (blogs, forums, shopping carts...) easily
* Awstats web tracking software (statistic updates every 90 minutes or so)
* FTP Access
* PHP 5
* 3 MySQL databases / 5 MySQL users
* phpMyAdmin
* 24/7 priority ticket support
* 24/7 hardware and software monitoring
* NO forced ads anywhere (not even a single link in the footer!). No forum posting required. No signing up for other offers (either free or paid) required either. This is as free as gratis gets.
* BEST OF ALL: You can request PHP Safemode to be disabled for your account entirely (for FREE, and it's accepted for nearly everyone who just asks via a simple, free ticket submitting!!! Change usually done under 12 hours or so). Getting Safemode OFF is a major reason why people get attracted to paid hosting.
Their website is apparently safely hosted in renowned datacenters with 100mbit uplinks, with servers backed up daily.
Comment: How can they afford all that? Some answers can be answered in
their FAQ page. Of course, they also have paid hosting packages, and upgrades available (
differences between them listed HERE)
From their FAQ
Quote:
How are you able to offer all of this hosting for free?
We are able to support No Catch and all of its hosted customers through advertisements on our main website, donations from satisfied users, and from our partnership with HostGator. This is not enough money to brag about, but it is plenty to keep your websites up and running, and that's all that matters.
Why don't you offer as much space as other free hosts?
At No Catch, our focus is on quality, not quantity. Instead of providing resources that we can barely afford to offer, we choose to offer the perfect amount of resources in order to maintain total quality. Don't be fooled by free hosts offering large amounts of diskspace and bandwidth, because they cannot meet the quality of our service at No Catch. The truth of the matter is that most people seeking free hosts never even need more resources than what we offer, so why unnecessarily over-exert ourselves?
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I hope you too like No Catch as much I did, and you find it nice for your first sites
. With confirmed friendly support added on top of it, what could one ask for more, from a free host, after all ?
I tried, too
