Frihost is one of the oldest post2host forums that I know off. It has been around since April 2005. At its helm is Bondings, a Belgian IT specialist who spent almost all of his free hours as a student to create, program and build Frihost.com. No one knows who Bondings is, but the Forum at the time when he was actively involved was one of the most active post2host forums. Bondings used php2 to build the Forum, and then programmed it completely to his own specifications. I’ve only really had the opportunity to get a view of the inside of his Forum when I was made staff at Frihost in February 2015 and could only marvel at his handiwork. Bondings’ goal at the time was to build a community site that provides free shared hosting accounts to Website beginners. His plan was to get the Forum to look after itself eventually so that his presence would no longer be needed.
Frihost did fantastic from 2005 to 2012 when post to host free shared hosting accounts were in great demand. Demand started to decline after 2012 and one by one the Admin and Mods of Frihost departed while registrations were declining as well. Frihost is a shadow of its former active self, but still very much a going concern. Bondings is keeping all of his Frihost domains alive and is using high quality servers in Germany to host the accounts. There are presently two Mods (myself included) who are looking after the Forum with some assistance in the background by an Administrator in England. We haven’t seen Bondings in a very long time, but for everything that matters he is still keeping the servers alive. Speed is great. And those who have shared hosting accounts are generally happy with the service.
In order to get an account one needs to register with the Forum and make five quality posts. One can then apply for a hosting account through an account panel that was created by Bondings. If successful and the account has been given the expectation is that the member has to make future posts in order to keep the hosting. Here are the specs of the free shared hosting accounts that are on offer at Frihost:
Website: http://www.frihost.com/
- 3GB Disk space
- 60GB Web traffic
- A free subdomain of your choice (eg. yoursite.frihost.net)
- Unlimited domains and subdomains of your own
- Php, perl, python, cgi, ssi and other scripting languages
- Unlimited MySQL databases
- Ftp access and browser uploads
- Unlimited email accounts
- cPanel control panel
- No forced advertisements at all!
In 2013 Bondings acquired StoneRocket.net and FreeFTPSpace.org from a friend in the same business. They had known off one another since 2005 when both started their free hosting businesses. StoneRocket was a thriving post2host business from 2006 to 2013. Bondings had plans to reactivate the hosting account and forum part of the business, but in January 2013 his career took off and StoneRocket free hosting got mothballed on a semi-permanent basis. FreeFTPspace.org however continued to exist. It is also still active, however on a much smaller scale than Frihost. Size of the hosting accounts at FreeFTPSpace are exactly the same as for Frihost, however members need to make 15 quality posts in order to get a hosting account.