Free WordPress Hosting Review: Ziclic.com

I have dredged the Internet time and again for free WordPress hosting, and I have never seen this host before. It is not to be missed. Ziclic.com sets the bar very high for every other "free" WordPress host.

Ziclic.com: Free Wordpress Hosting & Community

Ziclic.com is "your own hosted Wordpress for free!" says its header pitch. It has a genuine Vista control panel, Softaculus autoinstaller, MySQL databases, and email accounts.

Proudly sponsored by the infamous iFastnet of Byethost fame.

Free WordPress Hosting Review: Bytehost.com

Byethost.com is a so-called "free" WordPress host with all the frills. You get the MySQL database and the PHP necessary to run WordPress, a VistaPanel control panel, FTP, etc.

The list of frills sounds tempting indeed.  200 Gigs of bandwidth traffic a month. 5 Gigs of disk space. 50 addon domains, 50 parked domains & 50 sub domains, free 24/7 support, no ads and no popups.

You may think you've landed in dreamland with Byethost.com, but you may soon have a rude awakening. First, keep this name in mind: iFastnet. These are the people who seem to own the Byethost.com brand, and they are in business to sell hosting, and they do nothing but sell hosting.

Free WordPress Hosting Review: FreeHostingNoAds.net

FreeHostingNoAds.net is a no-frills host, and frankly, a high-risk free host that I would not recommend.

FreeHostingNoAds.net claims to offer a "guarantee" of an ad-free website, without pop-ups, banners or forum posting required. What it does not offer is a "guarantee" of a web site at all!  You can be online and fine one day, and gone the next with no explanation from the host. That happened to me in April 2014.

I had a perfectly functioning WordPress web site online with FreeHostingNoAds.net in April 2014, with about 100 pages in it. It was getting 1500 visits a day... because I had developed it elsewhere, and it came with the traffic. Four days after I put this blog online at FreeHostingNoAds.net, they shut it down without explanation.  And it was not an illegal site, it was a cultural web site.

Two Good Reasons to use Free WordPress Hosting

Reason Number 1:

The best way to learn to use WordPress is to use it.

Free WordPress hosting lets you learn for free! You can learn at your own pace, in a few weeks, months or years, and when you feel ready, you can move to paid WordPress hosting, if you want it.  You can learn the very very basics in WordPress.com (where you cannot instal your own themes or plugins, you make do with their default themes and plugins).  You can learn much more in free self-hosted Wordpress where you can instal your own choice of plugins and free or paid themes that you may find anywhere online.