My yearly subscription to csmedia hosting has ran out and so I set about the internet looking for an alternative. Although cs media are fine at hosting I wondered if free hosting is the way to go.

So this is my first post here so let me say hi... "Hi"
Can astahost transfer my original domain and how good a hoster is it?

Thanks guys

steve

Well that would depend on your way of thinking, if you think like most of the members here; free hosting is just a stepping stone to paid hosting, although you don't need a big 20 gig plan due to the fact that most free and paid hosting plans don't other as much as astahost does. But once your get a plan here, you can drop a couple of dollars for a domain and your set until your hosting starts running out of space and bandwidth only lasts a day.

You can park your domain on to your free hosting account and your set and like I mention before most free hosting sites don't other as much as astahost does. Of course astahost and trap17 are the only sites that use a automated credit system that lets you know how long your hosting account stay active. Yeah you have to post but instead of the quantity of posts you have to makes its the quality of the posts that you have to work on; meaning that the longer your posts the more credits you can get and the longer your hosting lasts.

This place has great members, great staff and most of all great hosting.

Free hosting was what got me into Astahost and yes, we have a great staff team

xboxrulz

It really depends if you are willing to sit down for 10 minutes every weekend and post on a forum (thats about 40 minutes per month but easy work). If you think like I do, astahost really is the way to go. It takes about 15 minutes for me to make $3.00 (The average cost for basic hosting per month). So if you are good at typing and making posts, Astahost is the way to go. However if it takes you 30 minutes to make 7 hosting credits then you might want to continue with paid hosting (unless you make less then $6.00 per hour). That is how I see it and some people would disagree with me saying that paid hosting is better then Astahost but if you compair the $3.00 per month plan to Astahost they are about the same.
Thanks,
Sparkx

I know of a lot of paid hosting that is less reliable then astahost's free hosting If you are going the free route, this is the company you want to do it with, no question about it. The time commitment in order to keep hosting is not extensive especially if you are able to react intelligently to topics and make well thought out posts quickly and efficiently. Further you can gain a surplus of credits and not need to constantly be visiting the forums if that is your wish. Regardless it is not a great trouble for a very high quality hosting solution.

More importantly, why not try it out? It takes very little time to get 10 or 30 credits and then once your application is processed, try asta for awhile. Worst case scenario something displeases you and you leave, or switch to computinghosts paid services. Either way all you will be losing by trying asta is a little time, and who can't spare that

Oh, and I agree, we have an awesome staff

lol, biased much? .. I think us moderators should just leave before we advertise ourselves too much

xboxrulz

good free hosting like astahost is just as good as padi hosting!
if you want free hosting, get astahost, its the best free host youll find. Although, if you want paid hosting, you could get it from computer host, they are owned by the same company as astahost... i think. I was looking at it yesterday, if i get paid hosting ill probably get that.
all you need to do is post until youve got 30 credits and apply, but after that youll need to do a bit of posting to keep your hosting.

OK, let me give my opinion.
Xisto people are kind with us, they allow free hosted people to make money with their site.
So, I would say, start with a free plan at astahost, in order to see if you are good on Internet, if people come to your site and if people appreciate what you do.
When this site starts being an important part of your business, if people connect to your site and ask you to do a paid job for instance, or if they buy something you want to sell, you start making money with your website.
As soon as the money coming from your website starts being more than the expenses for a paid site, you shoud go to a paid hosting plan.
Personnally, I don't have $3.33 a month for paying for my website. That's why I ame here, hosted by astahost free web hosting.
As soon as my site will start growing, and the revenue coming from my site will be bigger than $3.33 a month, I will switch to a paid hosting plan.
Inbetween, I will have tested Xisto's technical team, I am satisfied with the uptime, I am reasonably satisfied by my own graphical skills and website designing, so as soon as my site will give me a stable $3.33 monthly revenue I will switch to a paid plan.
Hope this helped.
Yordan

I'm currently in highschool, and I don't have a job, nor do I have time to have a job. Although you can find cheap hosting for about 1 dollar a month, and get a cheap $9 domain name for a year, I would think taking 5 minutes of your day to post a couple of times it really worth it. I can't find many free hosting sites with as many features as this one like cpanel, php, mysql, email and a lot more even on just the basic free hosting plan. Even though I haven't been here as long as other people, I'm really glad I found out about this site.

Astahosts hosting quality is very good, can even beat some paid hosts. Only catch is if you have the time to post on a forum, though if you do forget and your credits run out your site just gets suspended not deleted.
I probably won't change from astahost unless my needs change. What astahost offers is perfect for what i need and i can spare the time to make a few posts here and there.

If you need more space/features than asta offers try computinghost (astahost's paid division)

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