Comments on: Free PHP Web Hosting Comparison

By: Alex Melen

Alex Melen — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:18:46 +0000

Thanks Karthick!

By: Karthick

Karthick — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:59:28 +0000

Hey Alex, good work! i was searching for a nice free hosting service when i came across your blog. I dont think Tripod is even worth mentioning . And be sure to update T35 stats after the upgrade, so that we can make a better choice!

By: Alex Melen

Alex Melen — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:04:52 +0000

Thank you for the comment John! Unfortunately most of the good php hosts don’t offer mysql (since it bogs down the system and is a resource and abuse hog). Those that do offer it, often do it as an “upgrade”, which allows them to throttle it and control abuse. I’ll try to do a comparison of JUST mysql free hosts in the next month or two.

By: John

John — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:48:03 +0000

Hi, Alex

Can you suggest which free hosting offer many Sql cause most of them offer only 1 database

Thanks

By: Alex’s PHP Web Host Comparison | Karol Krizka

Alex’s PHP Web Host Comparison | Karol Krizka — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:16:42 +0000

[...] blog which I have reviewed in the past, has finally gotten around to publishing his results on the comparison of PHP performance on different free web hosts. The tests themselves were quite well designed, because the code was the same on all hosts and it [...]

By: Alex Melen

Alex Melen — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:54:24 +0000

Thanks AJ! Hopefully by the time I do this comparison again (sometime in ’08), T35 will be number one

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:37:44 +0000

3rd place is pretty good in my book. And the 10-20 millisecond difference is pretty negligible if you ask me.

By: Alex Melen

Alex Melen — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:43:59 +0000

Thanks Karol! When I have more time I’m going to create a more detailed script and go into further analysis. Maybe one host at a time.

I’m personally going to be working on analyzing the php config’s on all of these hosts to see if I can develop some kind of “best practices” list for T35 to use.

By: Karol Krizka

Karol Krizka — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:54:03 +0000

Nice! Thanks for doing these tests. The only think that is missing is full statistical analysis, but I don’t think the average webmaster would care about that. I’ll be posting a link back to this post later on today.

By: ragna4u

ragna4u — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:08:24 +0000

Very good work! I’m really looking forward to T35′s improvements!

By: Alex Melen

Alex Melen — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:34:10 +0000

Thanks Daniel! I was surprised to see lycos/tripod with such awful numbers! To be honest, the script would even time out and not load at all a few times on there. At the very least, our visitors can now access php information on every web host from one central area. Oh, and I’ll be personally working on some optimizations for T35 to get us higher in the rankings for when we run this test again (probably in about 6mo).

By: Daniel White

Daniel White — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:14:07 +0000

A very interesting work Alex, however T35 is still #1 for me. (There isn’t much of a different between the first 3 in the list as far as the benchmark times go).