000webhost grinds my gears
I have recently signed up for a free hosting account at 000webhost.com, and I know that “free” comes with a few catches, or in this case 22 of them, but they really are something else.
They promised 1500mb of storage space and 100gb of monthly bandwidth. Since all I wanted was to install a phpBB board for some of my friends and me, that sounded like more than enough.
However, not 2 weeks have passed and my account got suspended with this message:
“Suspended (Unmanaged or abandoned website that allows anonymous posting. MySQL database is overloaded with thousands of junk records. To get your account unsuspended please upgrade to our premium hosting.)”
Let’s dissect:
Unmanaged - Not sure what this is supposed to mean, but I guess they are implying that users were running amok and posting child pornography and warez all around. Which they were not.
Abandoned - They probably want to say that I haven’t logged into my account frequently enough. I guess 10 times every day just doesn’t cut it.
Anonymous - Oh no, these people want their privacy. They must be doing something illegal.
Overloaded - “While we did promise you 1,5gb of storage space, but come on, you have already filled almost 3%!!!!”, I hear them say.
Junk Records - This one baffles me the most. I’m sure all other free accounts on 000webhost contain records filled with cancer medications, AIDS prevention techniques, ways to get to the moon on a bike and similar amazing information (TM), so our petty little chatting looks like junk. And “thousands” is somewhere around 5 thousands, not 500 like they made it sound.
“To get our GREAT AND TOTALLY AWESOME SERVICE to work again, please GIVE US MONEY.” I did intend to make an upgrade, but to hell with them, there is no way that I will pay them now. I just hope they will be fair enough to allow me to download a backup of the database before I abandon their unmanaged junk of a website.
