000webhost is mostly good, but it is occasionally down. It offers PHP, MySQL, etc. However, one of my friends got his account suspended for "excessive CPU usage." We looked through the terms of service, and found it mentioned nowhere.

Here is the discussion he had with support:

---Him:---

To whom it may concern,

The site mod-share.webuda.com has been (unjustly) suspended for "exceeding CPU limits". I believe your system is fraudolent and unfair, but that is besides my point.

All I want from 000webhost now is to get the entirety of my uploaded files back. There are some important files for me.

Regards,

*****

---Them:---

Hello,

Please upgrade to our premium UNLIMITED hosting at www.hosting24.com to get your account reactivated

Regards,

Helpdesk Staff

www.000webhost.com

---Him:---

Mr Staff,

I know how to read, thank you! I do not wish at all to get my account reactivated. I wish to get the files back (possibly through a ZIP folder download) and switch to a different hosting provider.

Distinct Regards,

*****

---Them:---

Hello,

To get a backup, your account must be unsuspended. Please upgrade to get your account restored.

Thank you for using our services,

Lawrence

Volunteer Staff

www.000webhost.com

---So...---

They unjustly suspended his account, and won't let him have his files back unless he upgrades. Do not use this service. They cancel people's accounts for no good reason, and won't even let the user have the files unless they pay! This is extortion!

I will tell you here the experience I had with 000webhost free service.

At first time it was great, I installed wordpress and a WP template for some friend that is photographer and wanted a website. All the features worked great, it was very faster the service. You don't have autoinstaller, but is ok because you can do it manually (it is not a big deal).

The bad things started later.

- Once we found we haven't the database. They moved web sites to other servers, so our database (mysql) was empty. After some support tickets we recovered it.

- The big problem was a few days ago when they suspended us the account because a term of service violation "Suspended (Account sent more than 1000 email messages and only gets 0 visitors per day. This overloads our mail server. If you need to send more emails and to get your account re-activated, please upgrade to our premium UNLIMITED hosting". We don't have idea why this happened, we don't have emails in 000webhosting.

We CAN'T ACCESS to any feature from the Control Panel, to make a backup of the website. Also the ftp not shows our data (it is empty , just the root).

So, the only solution they provide us was to upgrade to a payed account, not just for the service, TO RECOVER OUR DATA!!

I have never wanted to pay to host my website. I know it's not practical but I didn't want to pay. Every other host I found was terrible, bad features and horrible support. But then I found 000webhost, their uptime is amazing and they give the latest MySQL and PHP for free! I have a few websites hosted with them. http://bvsg.freeiz.com, http://www.amock.cu.cc, http://recipe.hostzi.com, http://www.onlinepython.cz.cc.

You go ahead and check them out, tell me how long they are down.

(And for those people that take everything seriously, this is not an actual challenge.)