Well, I have to say that I've never trusted anyone who offers something that costs money and effort for free. Yes, even if it's done in good faith. Because, realistically, at some point or another, offers like that will HAVE TO either discontinue their services
or ask for money in return. That's the way the world works, and there's no denying that.
Anyway, I tried to poke around a bit to find out
why they're offering free hosting, and I found that in their FAQ:
Why do you offer freehosting?We want to give our customers professional webhosting services and technical support.Hmmm... Not the most satisying answer if you ask me.
If I had to guess, the reason they're offering free hosting is that they want people to purchase domain names from them... now THAT I can understand, and I think of it as good business sense.
Doteasy.com has been doing that for years, and they've been doing it very nicely. Unfortunately,
Freewebdot.com doesn't state this as the reason, which I think is a bad business move... I think a company should ALWAYS be honest with their customers, and expect their customers to be mature enough to know that nothing comes for free.
Anyway, I did join them to find out the extent of their services, and to make sure whether I can use my own domain names, or I have to register one through them.
First of all, their registration form is really not that good. They require that you provide
two lines of mailing address AND a fax number. That's either a stretch or bad programming.
Secondly, they require Billing Information right off the bat, even though I never agreed to purchase anything through them. And for some reason, they kept refusing my phone number, even though it was perfectly valid. I thought about using a fake number, but then decided it obviously wasn't worth the trouble.
Bottom line is, I seriously don't think this offer is worth it. They don't seem to offer cPanel (or any other type of control panel for that matter)... the sign-up process was problematic right off that bat... the offer itself IS too good to be true, since even if they make money out of domain name registrations, it doesn't justify the expenses of hosting... and finally, there are many hosting providers that are far better than this one is... I find the hosting services offered by Xisto corp., both the free and the paid, are basically the best I've ever seen online for such measle fees.
Cheers.
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QUOTE(ganeshn11 @ May 10 2006, 11:07 PM)
So whats the problem with that host, its good and surely better than AstaHost if it were not for its *pre* registered domain rule. M^E you will have to admit its better.
Well, if he does, I'll sure stand against him
... lol.
But thanks for the review anyway, ganeshn11.
Cheers.
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You need to own a ICANN and NIC supported domain, I mean not like those free domins like the .tk and .co.nr service, ya but the .be will do. This host is just amazing people! 
Specially hosting on IIS !!!! Yikess...
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but you don't have to. it's just i want to be able to get my site underway.
