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[mrdee]

I remember when I had a free account with Byethost, which I used for testing purposes.
Obviously, it was some time ago (around 2004), but the account seemed to be determined NOT TO let me do my testing.

With this i mean, I could upload sites and alter and edit them with no problem (the basic stuff), but when I tried to upload the data for even the most simple web form, everything hopelessly failed.

Any sort of script, no matter how simple, simply either failed to upload properly, or if it did get uploaded, it did not work and left me with loads of error messages.

Apparently this happened because PHP Safe Mode was turned on, OK, that might be a security measure, but that was obviously no good to me.
Also, since the PHP mail() function was (is) disabled, it was quite obvious that scripts which were supposed to send out emails were not going to work.

Further, there is the Vista Control panel (this is a matter of opinion, of course), but I do not like it one bit, I find it very user unfriendly (of course, there will be people who swear by the Vista Panel, like I said, a matter of opinion).

I do not know about the paid for version, but in my very humble opinion, Byethost (at least the free version) seems to be adequate for beginning webmasters, or people with a simple website with just text and some graphics, but if things get too sophisticated, it is best to take your business elsewhere.

It is nice to know that Byethost are ad-free, however.

[darko100]

Duh it's free what you all want

Even though there are some private local hosting companies over the world which give free 1gb+ bandwidth / 1gb storage I know 2 like that , but they don't want many new visitors , so i wont post a link. Anyway if you do a research you might find something.

@Guest well you can install any script you want by downloading a zip and adding it by FTP. you don't need auto installer