NetFirms Web Hosting Reviews and Ratings by Users

Reviewer Name: Stan Sepeck

Host Name: NetFirms

Comments: I hosted a site with NetFirms free hosting for 2 years. They were reliable and the FTP always worked great. However, the first time my site grew to over the daily bandwidth limit, they shut down my site. There was an error screen that said that the site would return within 24 hours... but it never did. After several days I emailed NetFirms support, but they wrote back to say that my site was gone forever (unless I began paying them for hosting.) Geocities has the same bandwidth limitation that NetFirms does, but Geocities will take down your site for an hour (and it always comes back.) This way you can reduce page weight and everything is cool. There is no such opportunity with NetFirms... the first time you go over the limit your free hosting is over. They hold your site hostage until you pay. My site had top search engine placement... but NetFirms didn`t care. Bottom line: Use this free hosting only if you have an extremely low bandwidth site. You may not think your site will ever become popular enough to exceed the bandwidth limitation, but you may be surprised (I didn`t think my site would... but it did!) I recommend avoiding NetFirms and going with a free host that is more flexible in how it handles bandwidth (such as Geocities or fateback.) I appreciate what NetFirms offered to me for free... but I am very mad at their lack of flexibility. I believe what they are doing borders on false promise.