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Freezoka — All the annoyances a paid host doesn’t have, for FREE! (Freezoka Review)

(Note: this was my experience in March, so some things may have changed, but last time I checked their main page was still extremely slow and hotlinking of files resulted in the adpage)

I joined Freezoka after learning that my old host was about to close. First thing I noticed after creating me account: it was VERY slow. I decided to continue using it anyway — the free host before this “accidentally” deleted my account. Didn’t think it could get much worse than that. Unfortunately, it did. I uploaded a PHP script. A blank page appeared, so I enabled error reporting to see what was wrong. I was redirected to the “Hosting Blog,” a site containing several popups and stolen blog posts, and plastered with ads extending halfway down the page. After disabling JS, I could see that there were 2 iframs in the code, between the lines of the error. I posted a thread on their forum. A user replied with a fix for the error. I tried it, also fixng the PHP errors and… now a meta refresh was introduced into my page’s code, pointing to the blog! I added an htaccess file for custom error pages on my main site while waiting for the admin to reply. Then every page on my site redirected to their spam blog. The admin suggested me to submit a support ticket (why I gave this a 3 instead of 1) but by then I had already bought paid hosting.

I have used many free hosts over a period of two years prior to trying Freezoka, and it was the worst host I have ever used.

(On a side note, I looked at my old thread on their forum, and the ad code I had pasted into my forum post is now being parsed as HTML, redirecting my post to the spam blog [it didn't when I originally posted it]. I’m waiting for someone to try an XSS attack…)