Web Hosting
I recently discovered Zymic, a free web hosting service. I haven’t looked for free web hosting in years, but this was the first one I’ve ever noticed that actually had some good features.. PHP support, FTP, MySQL databases, and 6,000 mB of storage space. Most control panel controls actually give me more support than do the same controls on my paid-for 1&1 service.
WOW. Free? Impossible. I logged in an started messing around with it and– yeah, I should’ve known there was some kind of trade-off. For one thing the site is hardly up and running, and I can’t even get into PhpMyAdmin to work on my databases.
Basically what I’m saying is you can’t beat web hosting that you pay for. It’s not only the features, but (especially compared to free hosting like Zymic) the reliability you are paying for. And most services are so cheap, it’s really hard to resist. I use 1&1 and I pay $5 a month for 5 times the databases and 20 times the web space of Zymic. And that is plenty of space and power to run the power-house that is FlashStuf, along with my personal site, chicken-cheese.com. And in the almost 2 years I’ve been hosted with them, I’ve never had any downtime. What it comes down to is that if you have the ability to actually pay for something online, web hosting is more than worth the cost; especially when the cost is so cheap.
