Visit our forum page - Freedom Wall Community | Check out what's on our Tumblog

Get Free Hosting at Freehostia

I admit, Freedom Wall is hosted at Freehostia, but before that, I was using blogger and I was really disappointed when they (their virtual robot) tagged my blog as spam, thus, they put it offline and I eventually lost all my 200+ articles. Sad thing is, I wasn’t able to keep a backup. So, as a sort of advice make it as a habbit. Blog export is good way of backing up your blog because if you opt to change your host due to disappointment, you can always keep your articles’ publication dates.

Yes, it was midst of 2010 when I lost all my articles in blogger and that custom domain which I bought from them won’t guarantee my blog’s perpetual online presence (provided that I contantly renew my domain). I made an appeal but such effort was futile.

Disappointed? Yes! but i still continue using blogger. Hosting services at a time were very expensive. Though there are other free hosting services such as wordpress, tumblr, and many others out there, I still remained with blogger for some reasons. WordPress was complicated for me (that time) and its domain customization was expensive. Tumblr had poor themes while the rest were just unreliable.

I signed with Freehostia a year ago but the control panel is just complicated for me to use. Just recently, they updated their control panel interface and using their hosting service is a piece of cake.

However, another problem had arosed. My domain was locked with enom and Google. So what I did is transfer my domain to Godaddy which cost me 5 days and update my nameservers to Freehostia. I didn’t try unlocking my domain since paying an annual renewal fee to Google is a big hassle for me. So I look for a domain registrar who can give me bunch of renewal options and that is Godaddy.

Now you may ask, what will happen to my Google aps. Don’t worry, you can always continue using those especially Gmail without losing your past emails. A simple setup to your MX records will solve this problem.

freehostia DNS record

Freedomwall.net DNS Record (click image to view full size)

Freehostia’s free hosting service includes; 250mb storage (fine for a blog like mine), 6GB of monthly traffic (which is still too far to attain), 1 FTP and 1mySQL Database (which is enough for what you need). But when you will be successfull on your blog, you have an option to get additional memory, traffic, or database for a fee. Three upgrade options are available.

This time, I am using wordpress scripts for my blog and it was a good try for me since WordPress offers more (addons and scripts) than any blogging site or opensource scripts.

Need assistance in setting up your blog and DNS records at free hostia? Post a comment and I’ll blog it.

Free Domain with 12+ Months of Website Builder
 
Comments

You made some really good points there. I checked on the
web to find out more about the issue and found most individuals will go along with
your views on this web site.

Hello Webmaster, I noticed that http://freedomwall.net/2012/02/get-free-hosting-a… is ranking pretty low on Google and has a low Google PageRank. Now the Google PageRank is how Google is able to see how relevant your webpage is compared to all the other webpages online, if you cannot rank high at the top of Google, then you will NOT get the traffic you need. Now usually trying to get to the top of Google costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars and very highly optimized targeted marketing campaigns that takes a team of experts months to achieve. However, we can show you how to get to the top of Google with no out of pocket expenses (free traffic), no stupid ninja tricks, no silly mind control techniques, and this will be all white hat with no blackhat software or tactics that could possibly land you on bad terms with Google and put you in the dreaded "Google Sandbox". We'll show you how to easily capture all the targeted traffic you need, for free, multiple ways to land fast (not months) first-page rankings in Google and other major search engines (Bing, Yahoo, Ask, etc), even show you strategies on how to earn daily commissions just try Ranking Top of Google, please check out our 5 minute video.

Great blog, did you use wordpress or blogengine? I made few blogs myself :) It takes time but it is worth it!

I am using WordPress. I wish you good luck on your blog

Ian, should I use the same? I'm still happy pa naman with blogger! Hehehe! =)

Marx, it's a decision you should think of. Ahehehe. I don't want a repeat on missing articles

But if you choose to, I will assist you.

Trackbacks for this post

Leave a Reply
*