I had written sometime back about a free web hosting company called 000webhosting which claims to be free of charge until 2012. I was quite skeptical at that time since rarely any free web hosting without advertisement will stay that long. Furthermore they didn’t offer any paid hosting, so I was thinking, how can they benefit from this, and how long can they survive?

As I had mentioned earlier, the first few weeks was a disappointment. It was slow and intermittently unavailable.  000webhost claimed that, they were adding new users and this required them to restart the services. I’m not sure if that is true. Quite some time back also, the whole server was down for a few days. At that time, I assumed that they no longer have any fund to continue this free service, or their server might be down due to some technical problem. A few days went by without news (maybe nobody cared), but 2 -3 days later they came back saying that their server was down due to one of the member hosting paypal phishing sites, which resulted the server to be taken offline by data center. Since then, they have moved to the new server and the whole content migrated from the old server.

After migrated, my testing website was still up but it was broken somewhere, and I didn’t have enough bandwidth to go and fix it (and due to no $$ from this website too). I’m still using it , and most of the time, to experiment with new scripts, since I’m not that type of person who is very careful when doing the testing, I should better utilize this free service with no worries in mind. I also don’t want to mess up my paid hosting worrying if something unexpected might happen that could break all the websites inside.

Recently, 000webhosting has made a few enhancements on their offering. The most significant one is, you’re no longer needed to provide your phone number for registration and verification purpose. Their affiliate program pays you $5 (among the highest) whenever someone signs up under you, but need keep in mind that they must be active in the last 30 days for you to qualify for the payment.

1. We do not require phone number verification anymore.
Now everyone can register and get activated in 5 minutes. Sign up rate increased over 50%!

2. Added over 40 banners.
Our banners are eye catching with high click-through rate. Just copy/paste HTML code of banner and insert to your webpage – sign ups are guaranteed.

3. Forum Finder tool
The best converting traffic come from forums. Forum traffic has over 15% conversion rate and that means if you will refer 100 visitors to our website from forums – 15 will sign-up and it will earn $75 for you! So we have created this unique tool for you.

4. Promotional Texts
We wrote you some ready-to-use texts for promoting our service. Just copy/paste these texts to your website, blog, or post directly to any forum – sign-ups are guaranteed!

5. Improved tracking
Added Traffic Stats where you can view how much visitors you referred and signup conversion rate for the last 30 days. Also created Traffic Sources section where you can check where your visitors come from.

6. And do not forget that for each active registration we pay you $5 USD, so our program is probably the best way to earn money.

My advice is, you can sign up to get the free website, build it up, get traffic and once you see the potential, move it to paid hosting. Safer and faster.

p/s: If you want to sign up, please use my affiliate link