Free PHP MySQL website hosting

Friday, April 13, 2007

When searching for free website hosting with no banners or ads, I came across phpnet.us and signed up for an account. It isn't cPanel based, but the control panel "Advanced Hosting Control Panel" is very straightforward to use. The FTP upload is a little slow, but this seems a small price to pay. On signup, you choose a subdomain to use but you can setup your own domain name to work with PHPnet as it gives full setup and nameserver details.

The spec they offer is:

300 MB free web space
80 GB free monthly bandwidth
Fantastico type script installer
Control Panel
3 x MySQL database
PHP enabled web space
No maximum file size
All file types allowed
Free FTP account
Catch-all e-mail address
Free sub domain: you.phpnet.us
No forum posting required
No setup fee
Instant activation

For testing websites, or if you're not ready to commit to a full hosting package, this looks like a great solution.

The immediate drawbacks I can see are no cron jobs (Don't know what I mean? Not a problem for you there then!) and there's no mention of uptime.

Edit - there is a 468x60 banner that appears at the bottom of most pages. You can't get rid of them entirely, but with a little spacing at the bottom of your page, or editing your stylesheet, you can minimise their impact.

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