Hostsnake Free Web Hosting

[crepusculart 0]

Hi everyone.

I just searched if someone has posted a review about hostsnake but it seems that no one did. So here I am.
Before getting here (and even before knowing about trap), I was hosted by hostsnake.com.

The features for the free hosting are :

- no ads (interesting)
- 5gb of space and 10gb bandwidth
- PHP and 5 mySQL databases
- one ftp account
- your subdomain will look like http://username.hostsnake.com/

Anyway, I removed my site from there because .htaccess files aren't allowed. Moreover, the function mail was disabled, so your site can't send mails.

I won't mark this free web hosting because I don't want to judge it, but anyway I think it's quite a good one in the wide ocean of free web hosting...

[tricky77puzzle 0]

And now for an "objective" review:

 

Name: HostSnake

Webspace available: 19.53 GB (20,000 MB)

Bandwidth: 292.96 GB (300,000 MB)

Filesize limit: 10 MB

File count limit: -

URL Type: Domain/Subdomain

Upload Method: FTP, Browser

Forced ads: -

Scripting: PHP (safe mode ON), SSI

Databases: MySQL (1, 1 account)

Misc: None shown on site; LayeredPanel, Awstats, Fantastico, PhpMyAdmin (4 features)

Penalties: Spinoff/cobrand of Erupt.com

 

Final score: 16.08% (0.2009785989128160821691176470589)

 

.htaccess should count as a penalty feature, but I didn't make it one, since I don't want to derate them too much.

[Spyda 0]

There overslling like crazy. They won't be able to support all the space or bw. At least with Xisto you know that you can fill up your bw meter, and your account won't get deleted.

[tricky77puzzle 0]

There overslling like crazy. They won't be able to support all the space or bw. At least with Xisto you know that you can fill up your bw meter, and your account won't get deleted.

It's too bad I can't put a penalty for overselling. Because you never know.

BTW, if I post a tri-daily (once per 3 days) webcomic whose image takes up an average of 125 KB and keep up a blog which I post in on average 3 tiems a day, how long will it take before the 500 MB is filled up? I currently use about 20 MB.
Edited March 7, 2008 by tricky77puzzle (see edit history)

[crepusculart 0]

Thanks for the objective review as you said. I was just pointed out to this free web hosting service. I said that I wasn't that good about doing reviews and plus, they aren't even that coherent about the amount of space and bw for free accounts... On the home page, they say 20gb space and 300gb bw but when you click on plans, there aren't the same features... Kind of weird because in your account, after registering, you get the 20gb and 300gb stuffs... We would need someone to fill the whole space to see which one is true.

[iGuest 3]

Is the server down?

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I have a hostsnake.Com site (coursemapper.Hostsnake.Com) and could not login nor access any of the hostsnake.Com sites..

 

{today = march 22 2008}

 

Are they just down? or is it more serious and did they stop their service?

 

Rgds,

Henk

 

-reply by Henk

[Absolute Zer0 0]

Whatever the case, it's back up now. Saw that host, I never tried it. Awesome web space, speed, and bandwidth, but Safe Mode and htaccess off, meaning dynamic content such as forums, CMS, etc., won't work well on it. Also doesn't sound very reliable.

[iGuest 3]

Quote from email--------------------------------------------------------------------Dear Bob Hughes,Concerning your user account: cheshirerailwaymodellersMy name is Jeffrey, I am the new Admin for HostSnake who is now handeling things. As a result I will be implanting new policies. One of the new policies are going any account that is inactive pased 90+ days will be removed. This policy will go into effect May 13, 2008 at 10:00 PM EST.Thankx,---------------------------------------------------------------------The above email was received this morning. It uses poor spelling and grammar, obviously written by an ill educated halfwit. If this is from HostSnake management the company is in the hands of an idiot. If it is not from HostSnake management it stands for nothing. Either way it is beneath contempt.-feedback by Bob Hughes

[Forbez 0]

Looked promising, but doesn't seem to pass the tests. I may check it out for myself on a later date.

[iGuest 3]

how to retrieve my account

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Replying to Trap FeedBacker

Hey since your the new admin, can you please help me retrienve or save the files (website) I uploaded in Hostsnake... I really put hard works on it.. And I havnt have any back up of it... Men I really need to get those html file here is my account http://yengster.hostsnake.com/ or yengster-rockon.Co.Cc

 

My website is working alot ang may is asking me why it isnt wrking now... Please... Email me mr. Admin please... Renniel.Yruma@gmail.Com

 

-reply by inyi

[iGuest 3]

Hostsnake server was down for a long time its not reliable .Often its happening-reply by Remshad

[iGuest 3]

Hostsnake sucks

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Hostsnake is the worst of all, since the new administrator is handling things, my account got lost, and I had activity every day.

 

-reply by Roche

[iGuest 3]

To bad

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Well I had a page up and working pretty good except the forum...Well its been 3 days now and the site does not work anymore.

 

-reply by Fallout

[iGuest 3]

Powered by what is that

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I'm new to hostsnake free hosting and I want to know why there's a kind of phrase that says powered by at the end of my web site and when I activate php script like star rater the powered by appeared at the end modifing my web site configuration at the same time. Thanks

 

-question by Sebastien

[iGuest 3]

Server down for weeks, i moved to a payed server.

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I was fed up with hostsnake.Com. Since they changed admin and moved towards the so called Hostsnake 2.0 the support options were already removed from their site.. Hence no way to contact the administrators in a normal way.

 

Now the site has been completely unaccessible for 2 weeks already, so I gave up on them. I moved to a payed server (under normal circumstances that payed server could have been hostsnake, but they simply arent thrustworthy so I tried another one).

 

Nice effort hostsnake made, it was simply too good to be true,... Also recently the time needed for loading pages was extremely long.. About 30 seconds on my average site...

 

Conclusion: Find another server if you are looking for something more or less reliable.

 

-reply by CourseMapper

 

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