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HostPaid – Free Web Hosting Revolution

Wogan May — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:27:49 +0000

Guest post by Wogan May from WoganMay.com

HostPaid.com is a revolution in the world of free hosting. Unlike other free hosts – one-man, underskilled, overambitious sellouts – HostPaid has approached the free hosting market with a different idea in mind: Free hosting that lasts.

HostPaid is run by several webmasters who, discontent with the available free hosting services, have struck out and established their own. Some of their core principles include quality, service, and stability.

We do not overload our servers, nor oversell our resources (even though we’re giving them away). Reliability is a key factor in the service we provide as is quality. Simply because we provide a free service doesn’t mean we should skimp on what is important. –Jonathan – Owner, HostPaid

HostPaid officially kicked off very early in January, 2008. In accordance with their policy on not overloading servers, they only had 50 accounts to offer. At the time of this post, only 20 of those accounts were taken. I’m willing to bet many more will vanish soon. And with account features like these, I’m surprised there are still accounts available:

1GB disk space
10GB monthly bandwidth
Cpanel 11.17+
Unlimited ftp/email accounts, sub/parked/addon domains, and MySQL databases
Choice of own domain, or a HostPaid subdomain
Everything else you would expect from a paid webhost
Legendary server stability
Top-notch customer service

Furthermore, HostPaid promises to deliver (and has delivered) on three more very important fronts. And by doing so, they set themselves completely in a class of their own:

We offer quite a few things that are simply unheard of in the free web hosting industry, specifically, a Server & Network Uptime Guarantee, an Ad-Free Guarantee and actual web hosting account support from a real person. – Jonathan – Owner, HostPaid.

Since HostPaid is looking to offer high quality free hosting, they need a system that generates income for themselves – yet keeps the system free at the same time. This is achieved through the mechanism of affiliate referrals. Before you can register an account at HostPaid, you need to sign up at one of their affiliate networks. It’s a process that, as Jon explains, benefits all parties concerned.

The affiliates listed are not *just* to provide income for HostPaid, they are also there to help our clients earn additional income from their website. … If you’re a webmaster and you sign up for one of the networks and our hosting, you’ve just “killed two birds with one stone”, in a sense. You now have reliable hosting to host your website and a way to earn income. – Jonathan – Owner, HostPaid

Account setup was phenomenally fast. I registered at DealDotCom, then applied at HostPaid. They created and activated my account within six hours after registering, and I was able to log in to my cPanel!

And, as mentioned in that list, their support really is top-notch. I signed up with my primary domain (WoganMay.com), but I asked them to change it – and they complied within two hours. Then I was having trouble adding a domain on – and they sorted it out just as quickly. I’ve been at many, many free hosts in my time, and I’ve never seen service like this. The most I’ve ever gotten was a “lol, try adding it again”-type response – and that was from an “industry leader in free hosting”.

Another thing that I really like about HostPaid is that they really listen to their customers. I recommended a few changes to their cPanel and welcome emails, and they actually heard me out. HostPaid definitely has that human touch…

I don’t even get this level of service from my local paid provider – never mind for free! The support was also amazing – they obviously knew what they were doing. At the speed with which they serviced my requests, I can only assume that they have years of experience in this industry.

To be quite honest, this level of quality shouldn’t be free. Yet, it is, because four people decided it was necessary:

My name is Jon (Jonathan) and I am the Owner of HostPaid. There is also Kim, who is our Account & Affiliate Manager, Josh who heads our Support Department and James who also works in our Support Department. – Jonathan – Owner, HostPaid

Speaking from personal experience, I really have to say that I’m above impressed with their services. Because they’re only aiming at a small user base for now (50 clients), I’m confident that their quality of service will remain this high for a while yet. And since they’re so dedicated to what they’re doing, I can only expect more good reports to follow.

As of this moment, there are 30 accounts left, before they close their first server to registrations. If you’re looking for an excellent, no-nonsense PAID host, then you might as well get it right now, for free: Click here!

Summary

Forget everything you thought you knew about hosting. With founders as dedicated as these, HostPaid is definitely set to be a major success in the long run. So if you’re looking for no-nonsense high-quality web hosting, just click here: http://www.hostpaid.com/why-choose-hostpaid/

Wogan is a novice web developer, author, philosopher, daydreamer, debater, blogger, chef, critic and friend. He is also Christian, white, male, unprejudiced, deep and inexplicable in the best of times. He lives in South Africa, and hopes against the tide of corruption and failure. You can find him at WoganMay.com

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Phillip van Coller — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:13:36 +0000

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insaneGB goes down bad!

Phillip van Coller — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:47:27 +0000

After I posted about insaneGB’s great offer it turned out to be not all that. They made a lot of promises and at the end they didn’t deliver. And I got a lot of interesting FACTS from a cool guy named Wogan May on his post My InsaneGB Experience

Let’s get this going,

their first promise was and still is:

“We are a Free Web Host without forced ads! That means that we will not force any ads directly onto your website like most other free hosting companies. Instead we do offer advertisements placed directly onto our main website, forums and main cPanel pages.”

Why?

Indeed a lot of free hosts go off line and just disappear, but we are different, we are actually here to stay for a long term. We have the funds and the skills to set up a company like this, and we plan on keeping it like it for a long time.

So what do we call this on all their client’s websites?

I call it a link to a forum and an affiliate link to Hostgator, inserted right into the HTML pages of their clients. That means they went on the server, opened their clients’ HTML pages and inserted the links.I think thats a bit of a privacy breach in my opinion.

Later on the the admin (seth) went missing and did not return to the forums much. Issues that was there from the start weren’t getting resolved etc.

insaneGB for Sale?

Wogan May found him on MSN one night and he wanted to auction insaneGB off. The server costs were getting to the point where they couldn’t pay for them, and he claimed he wanted to move on to other things. Weird thing to do when you claim you have the financial backing and this post by the admin:

nope, if the server is full we just add a new one, simple aint it?

I guess it’s not that simple?

Confronting insaneGB

According to Wogan he got hold of Seth and the admin, confronted them about the ads on his website. The admin gave him a hard time about him not knowing what was going on and the costs he had to pay.

They actually also asked Wogan to moderate the forums for them?

Another weird statement in their Privacy Policy:

“From time to time, we make the e-mail addresses of those who access our site available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting.”

Finally

They decided to post a very interesting message on their homepage:

Dear Customers, We are in the process of rebuilding insaneGB, we already enabled forced ads and downgraded the packages. The reason for this is because some of you did not appreciate what we offered to you and used it to host illegal content breaching our ToS daily. The forced ads are up because we want to get a new server to balance the server loads that have been abused heavily lately. Forced ads are temporarily until further notice. Thank you for understanding.

Wow! On their homepage, what an unprofessional message to convey to your clients and new prospects as clients.

Just proves that not all the free things in life is so Good!

Let’s see if they can come give us some constructive feedback on whats going on…

Credits:
Wogan May
InsaneGB