Free Web Hosting Review of:
NetFirms
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Note: Their freehosting plan is somewhat hidden now if you go to their homepage (it may look like they only have paid webhosting). Clicking the link above will go to their free hosting plan, or you can go to their home page and click on the "Netfirms BASIC Hosting" link at the bottom of the web page. |
| Interests: |
Personal, Business. |
| Free Web Space: |
25 MB. |
| Forced Ads: |
Banner-Top. |
| Your Ads: |
Allowed. |
| Upload: |
FTP. |
| Editor: |
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| Scripting: |
CGI, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl. |
| Pre-Scripts: |
Counter, FormMail. |
| Your URL: |
Top-level domain name, or Subdomain. |
| Other Features: |
- Web-based Email or Forwarding (Domains only).
- Flash.
- File size limit 256 KB.
- 60-days Inactivity limit.
- Multiple accounts allowed.
- Bandwidth limit 1,000 MB/month.
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| Date Added: |
July 25, 2002. |
| Last Modified: |
February 7, 2007. |
| Features Rating: |
70 (out of possible 0 to 125 points)
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Average Rating: 7.83 / 10
Total Votes: 60
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38 User Testimonials/Reviews of NetFirms
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| Reviewed on: 2007-02-05 -
(IP: 209.124.x.x) -
Rated: 6 |
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I am facing same problems with Netfirms. They used to be good 4 years ago, but it seems that happened to them what happens to some companies when they grow too fast. Now they have a horrible service. I have been using Netfirms for years. I used to recommend it to my customers (what a shame). I hope they forgive me now. Netfirms says you have 10 GB of bandwidth, and with 5 users visiting my web portal, their MySQL server goes down. It is horrible, and the worst thing is to contact their technical support; it is terrible. They do not give follow-up. They send you an email asking you to reply to confirm your request, but guess what? they never answer your email. My site was down for a while and they apparently tried to fix it, but they never did. Their MySQL server is unreliable. I will not use or recommend their service ever again.
[Your domain name's website hosted by Netfirms loaded okay for me.]
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| Reviewed on: 2006-12-28 -
(IP: 67.142.x.x) -
Rated: 8 |
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Netfirms is a great web-hosting site. They have excellent support -- it is not 24 hours; they had me an answer in 20 minutes! I used my own domain name (point NameServers). My ratings on NetFirms:
Support: 10/10.
Features: 6/10 (no online website builder, and not much you can do online without HTML code.)
Fast Server: yes.
Downtime: Well, my web site never went down, but their Control Panel (https://controlpanel.netfirms.com) is down a lot and loads really slow.
Banner: Better than most free hosters.
Notes: Netfirms is a great free web space host. I would recommend to anyone (and have). I used them for 3 months, and they were GREAT! Now, I am using a person's server.
So try them out free with a subdomain. What do you have to lose?
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| Reviewed on: 2006-08-02 -
(IP: 64.246.x.x) -
Rated: 10 |
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I got my Netfirms free web site about 4 years ago, and even though I almost never visit it, and have not edited the hosted web page since, it still loads fine. So seemingly they do not enforce the inactivity limit. It is one of the most reliable free web page hosting sites. There are some ads at the top of the page, but no popups, and it is not near as bad as most of the older free hosting servers, such as 0Catch. Recomended for small websites if you do not mind the few ads that keep the free web hosting reliable.
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| Reviewed on: 2006-03-08 -
(IP: 172.175.x.x) -
Rated: 1 |
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Unfortunately I have to agree with the poster below who mentioned about having his free hosted website cut off after going over his daily bandwidth limit. All of a sudden I exceeded their daily usage for allowed bandwidth one time (on a golf shoe review site???). I wrote and asked that if I had ever exceeded the monthly bandwidth limit, could they show me the stats? Nope -- pay or go. I would not be doing business with this kind of site.
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| Reviewed on: 2006-01-25 -
(IP: 88.109.x.x) -
Rated: 10 |
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i think this is the best free webhosting site because i have been with them for a while and never had any problems.
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| Reviewed on: 2005-12-30 -
(IP: 205.209.x.x) -
Rated: 10 |
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I've used Netfirms for 4 years - they don't enforce the inactivty limit. The first 3 years was for a rarely used how-to-build teaching Website (they never shut my free web site down - thank you). The past year has been for a Site of the Month review article (www.web-tech-monthly.netfirms.com) which is more active. Netfirms has been reliable and has very good speed. I've only used the email tech support once, but this was fine. Netfirms is a good place to put your small business site (for free) while you get started. When you grow and can pay for hosting, you can easily trade up - their pay rates are comparable to godaddy and other top pay-for sites.
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| Reviewed on: 2005-10-19 -
(IP: 169.244.x.x) -
Rated: 2 |
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Wow, very bad tech support and slow downs. Recommended ONLY if you are using FrontPage or something that creates web pages for you without HTML!
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| Reviewed on: 2005-09-24 -
(IP: 67.191.x.x) -
Rated: 1 |
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don't do it! I don't know much about html, but I can follow directions. Netfirms promised an easy website, up in minutes! I purchased (paid for) my website with them and it's the end of Sept. and I still can't get a decent site on-line. Right now the site is on but the headers and photos are scrambled, which defeats the purpose of being online. They also promise 24/7 tech support, which is actually non-existent. They have lots of tutorials, but if it doesn't answer your specific question you are messed up. They don't answer e-mails and their phone number doesn't seem to work. I guess I'm just out the money I spent since I haven't found a way to contact them. Not recommended for complete newbies who don't know anything about HTML or web authoring.
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| Reviewed on: 2005-05-22 -
(IP: 128.237.x.x) -
Rated: 2 |
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Cheap Hosting but lots of short downtimes and slow downs. Tech Support not helpful.
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| Reviewed on: 2005-03-14 -
(IP: 65.196.x.x) -
Rated: 8 |
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Good and fast server also perfect uptime FTP. But the banner is SO UGLY. but You know What, I have found out a way to recover it, so it is great for me than!
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