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Important: Free Hosting Before You Get Started Guide

This article explains all free hosting limitations not listed in our web hosting comparison chart and clarifies the motivation behind them. Please read this guide thoroughly in order to avoid account misuse, suspension or even termination.

1. Resource usage

Offering free web hosting is neither easy nor free for the ones that offer it. Although our free hosting users do not pay any fees this does not mean that setting up and maintaining the actual free hosting platform does not involve any costs. Actually it is quite the opposite. These are just some of the recurring monthly costs: server hardware, server electricity consumption, server software, system administration, technical support, fraud and abuse prevention etc. In order to cover the combined cost of the above mentioned our entire free hosting servers operation has to be as efficient as possible, which means putting a great number of free hosting users per free hosting server and this is only technically possible if the resources that each free hosting account uses are very limited. Contrary to the common misconception and due to the complexity of the entire web hosting, disk space and monthly traffic are not the only limits necessary to keep your site, database, email etc up and running. Here are the most important measures that we monitor for each free hosting account:

- Disk Space - 1GB. On a paid hosting you receive Unlimited disk space.

- Monthly Traffic - 10GB/month. On a paid hosting account you receive Unlimited disk space.

-CPU usage (servers processor usage) - maximum 16% average CPU usage. On a paid hosting account you get up to 100% CPU

- RAM (both physical and Virtual memory) - maximum 100MB for physical memory usage. On a paid hosting account you get up to 1536MB physical memory and 1GB virtual memory

- Entry processes (number of concurrent processes towards the web server) - up to 5 processes. On a paid hosting account you get up to 20 processes

- Number of process (total number of processes launched by your account) - up to 10 processes. On a paid hosting account you get up to 30 processes

- Disk IO (input output disk operations) -256 kb/s. On a paid hosting account you get 1024 kb/s for disk IO

- Disk Inodes (the number of files and/or directories in a web hosting account) - up to 25 000 inodes. On a paid hosting account you get up to 250 000 Inodes

- Mysql CPU usage and Mysql Disk IO - maximum 2% average CPU usage 256 kb/s for disk IO. On a paid hosting account you get 30% for MySQL CPU and 1024 kb/s for MySQL disk IO

- Max 1 cronjob with maximum frequency of 1 hour. On a paid hosting account you can setup cronjobs that run every minute

- Max 1 email per hour - in order to prevent spam this measure although a bit restrictive is indeed necessary. On a paid hosting account you can send up to 250 emails per hour

Badly exceeding any of these parameters can even cause the entire server to go down and with this all sites and applications hosted will become unreachable. We cannot allow this to happen that is why we use a specialized shared hosting OS called cloudlinux. It acts as light weight virtualization system that isolates each user resources into virtual containers, so that one misbehaving user cannot affect other users hosted on the same server (more info at cloudlinux.com). Despite that if too many free hosting users start overusing their allocated resources at the same time this will again place a heavy load on the server and will cause either slow performance or downtime. Therefore we are forced to suspend users who systematically use a great portion of the resources mentioned above or max out some or several of these resources for a considerable amount

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