Free hosting is never free
Maybe not these days, but it used to exist. Geocities comes to mind.
I have seen neocities and I think it is trying to do the same, haven’t looked into it a lot though
Github pages?
AI training
Just because someone’s making money off it doesn’t mean it’s not free (frankly it’s a reason it should be)
The phrase “free is never free” already acknowledges that the service does not require payment (free), but it implies that you are used as a method of making money.
It’s just a phrase to keep people aware.
I was also kinda referring that a lot of free hosting has something in their contract that specifies that everything belongs to them after you upload it. Obviously more legalese than the way I said it.
Anyone training an AI on anything I’ve uploaded to GitHub is in for a bad time lol
The goal is to host a website… Anyone can scrape it.
Notice the warning icon in browser next to the domain name
Psh! Https is overrated.
the S stands for sucker
The finest quality unencrypted FTP
That’s why it’s so fast.
Does that mean free if you bring your own domain but $22.95/mo if you let them register a domain? Love that 2500% markup.
I think it’s free but you have to buy or bring a domain
Yeah but my point is, domains are typically like $5-$20 per year instead of per month.
(To be fair, that technically just says $22.95 and doesn’t specify per year or per month, but domains aren’t a one-time purchase either and all the other listed payments are monthly.)
so the web is free, not the hosting?
Looks like the hosting is free, although they run ads on whatever site you show. But renting the domain name isn’t. Presumably they also keep the revenue from the ads.
I remember using a service like that in the late 90s/early 00s and the way to get around having the ads shown on the page was to rename the .html file to .jpeg.
If you’re signing up for free hosting with ads, you might not need a domain.
