Don't host your site here if you want people to see it.

I am an IT student and from time to time I get assignments which involve creating and hosting small websites. I like to use free hosting as these websites need to be online for just a few months.

That's where Free-Space came in. To be fair, when you sign up for a free plan you get a lot of gadgets at your disposal. PHP support, a MySql database, e-mail boxes, FTP access, etc.

However, the most important thing a hosting provider should offer is REASONABLE UPTIME. And that's exactly what Free-Space fails to do. Horribly. And I'm not talking 24-7 uptime here. Sure, I can understand that my site may be down for a few minutes due to a server reboot but I am talking about DAYS here. And it has happened twice now. I couldn't access my ftp, database or e-mail either. You don't get any information or support from administrators whatsoever. You can only wait and hope your site goes back online.

So if you want to build a website and show it the world one day, don't host it at Free-Space.

Biggest Pro: Lots of features
Biggest Con: very low uptime performance

Worst webhost award

www.free-space.net.sucked me in on freehost plan, then the ads started for service upgrades at same time as freehost service went down. For three days we emailed the admin, posted on the site forum, where it was obvious there are many others very disappointed at losing service, a lot of the other webmasters were very much newbie types who believed the site would come back up. The site admin deleted the critical posts as they appeared, but would not restart the hosting servers. Pathetic. Its only just come back up after three days.

Biggest Pro: none
Biggest Con: scam for paid upgrade