Byethost Free Webhosting Reviews 17

I have been using their free website for 4 months short of 10 years now without difficulty. I happened on these poor reviews so I thought it was only appropriate to feed back some good news. I upload using fileZilla.

The site works fine for my simple personal website (whereas my "paid for" site with my ISP, PlusNet, locked me out for "excessive use").

They keep sending me spam email. Unsubscribing doesn't change anything.

Just uploaded a few E-Learnings for my applicant portfolio. For months everything worked fine until just recently everything was deleted without warning. From the usage tracking of my links I can tell that the content was hardly accessed frequently enough to be considered server resource straining. The content obviously was my own and therefore not copyright protected. God knows why they deleted me, they certainly did not send a warning.

How come in 2023 a website is able/allowed to send you your own PASSWORDS IN PLAIN TEXT via email ???
How come the passwords I defined aren't hashed ???

I set up a website to develop it before going public, and a large wiki to hold content and discussions with coworkers. Byethost were providing a good, free service, and it made sense to transfer to one of their paid services when ready. Without warning, everything disappeared, replaced by a crude page of adverts. Support have not responded to my polite query sent a few days ago.

The company are still accepting new requests for free hosting. Given the reports of similar losses of data here and elsewhere, if you use Byethost, I would make sure that you have up-to-date backups.

I put my small personal genealogy/family history website on their free hosting service a couple years ago and so far have been very satisfied. No problems, no glitches, no hassles, stable, fast loading. I had to dump a previous host because they were secretly censoring my pages for reasons they would not even disclose. My site is for genealogy - not naughty stuff! I think I used Byethost many years ago for another project (school maybe) and likewise had good results. So they have been around for a long time now and I recommend.

Byethost hosted 3 web sites for me for a few years without problems - all personal web sites (family, previous school etc) - no business involvement at all. However, without any warning they closed down all 3 sites and claimed that one of them was being used for phishing (I barely know what that means) - and without any evidence nor any clear explanation cut me out, removed my access to the files and have now blocked me. Happily I have copies.

I see from previous reviews I am not the first. My suspicion is that they don't like offering free hosting for too long but who knows? If you do chose to sign up with them, take care....!

I used byethost and they cancelled my plan without any notice! All of my data was gone.

AWWWFUL, they fake limits by saying UNLIMITED. CPU limit is too damn low, it's too easy to overcome Memory limits and when this happens. You are suspended for over-using the resources. TOTAL SCAM. Thinking about paid plans? Never do it the are expensive and slow at the same time.
I was thinking about starting my online store at byethost and wanted to try free hosting before moving to paid plans and I'm glad I didn't fall for it.

Byethosting is a good website hosting service however it lacks in SSL, what's the point of a free hosting service that people want to use/share when it isn't secure and you can not use a free ssl. Not recommended unless you don't care about security.

Slow, I can't even connect to their FTP.

slow host!!!! very slow and poor service

I signed up for the free hosting thinking if it was any good I might move to paid. They suck you in with the free hosting and you might end up doing a lot of work to create your Wordpress or whatever site, then launch it. It sounds great free, no bandwidth limits no limits free.....

That's not true though after a few days you get spammed to death with emails warning of resource limits? You are urged to sign up for a paid plan. These get more frequent rising to 2 or 3 per day. Then the site is suspended for 24 hours this starts to happen more and more often until suspended every day. Even if no one uses it and it's never up. I know this because I removed all links to the site, so there would be no reason for people to visit and had an e-mail on the 24th telling me of a 24 hr resource usage suspension and another on the 25th telling me the same thing...effectively the site never came up again.

Then the spam changes to the key threat "Free hosting accounts that are suspended over 40 times are not able to be reactivated / will not reactivate, you should upgrade if there is any doubt !"

Don't waste your time with these people the paid hosting has limits and if their practices are anything like with the free hosting I would not trust them to not try and bleed you dry. I am with another add supported WP host and it works fine and has done for a year. I may well upgrade with them as they are cheaper and seem better than these jokers.

For a free web hosting service - it's great. It's updated, fast (for a free service), and reliable enough. The only drawback is support - if you lose files - you lose files! You have to be very attentive and responsive to your website since you shouldn't expect anything - it's free!!

I give this 4 stars, despite the quality of service - only to overstate the fact that for something free, they actually provide helluva service compared to what I am paying now (zoom.ph) - which I am leaving ASAP!

I won't go back to free services - but when I was in college (a decade ago) and didn't have money for such things - byethost tided me over spectacularly - at the price, which is FREE.

I cannot vouch for any of their paid services.

I've not been with these since my account closure in 2006.
For the past couple of months I have just started receiving spam email prompting their services. It doesn't seem to matter if I click unsubscribe as I am still receiving them. Contact them you say? Sure, I have to create yet another account to send a ticket!? No thanks.

Dear Byethost, if you would like this review taking down then please contact me so we can discuss the removal of my email from your list.