heres an interesting quirk on infinityfree
recently a member accidentally deleted their .htaccess in / see this post
and although everthing still functions (index.php, index.html, index2.html, error pages) without the .htaccess there is one thing that doesnt and that is the two .css files fail to load because the secure connection has failed !
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://404tutorial.com/2.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://404tutorial.com/1.css">
was this always the case and I never noticed or something weird happening because .htaccess is missing ?