[deanhills]

Free web hosting is still a thing? I used to frequent freewebspace.net and that place is dead dead. Ran a free web host back in 2009, good times.

I joined FWS around 2009 when it started to die.  In 2008 it became the place that helped me find great shared hosting hosts.  They had a fantastic search page for free web hosts with filters - one could filter on cpanel and a whole range of specs.  When I joined in 2009 there were technical problems with the free web host directory that didn't get attended to an eventually by 2011 it caved in its original excellent format.  There is one now, but only contains iffy hosts and there is no longer a filter in place like there used to be.  After 2009 (not sure of the exact year - could have been 2010 or 2011 too) there was a great fight between staff and some energetic members and when they were temp banned traffic became very quiet - like started to really die - most of them never returned.  Then the owner tried to change the Forum format that may have made things worse instead of better.  One of the old crowd- deeplist - returned for a while, and that helped it a little, but sadly it's like ghost town in there now.  Agreed.  There had been some excellent times for me.  I'm sorry I missed the period before I joined however.  Real quality members at the time and they worked hard on high quality.