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debate, basically why can’t I have any freedoom with what websites we want to host, my website was suspended for being “chan” type and “chat” type like oh my god I didn’t even have a sql database and I STILL made the whole thing work anyways heres my thoughts

Let’s just start with the obvious — “InfinityFree” sounds like a superhero name, but functions like a broken vending machine. Infinity? You mean infinite restrictions, right? Because the only thing limitless about this host is the number of times they’ll suspend your site for existing. It’s like calling a dumpster fire a free heating service. :fire::wastebasket:Every time someone points out how garbage InfinityFree is, here comes Captain Soyjack from the backrooms of the forum with his “Actually, you violated the terms of service” copy-paste like he’s doing God’s work. :nerd_face: Bro. You’re not tech support. You’re not on payroll. You’re just publicly simping for a service that wouldn’t even host your opinion if it was formatted as PHP. :woozy_face:InfinityFree’s terms of service reads like a trap from Saw. You think you’re fine uploading a simple chat app, then BAM — “your site is in violation.” Want to run a blog with comments? Sorry, that’s “interactive.” Want to make a portfolio? Too many image requests. Want to breathe? That’s a CPU spike, instant suspension. :bomb::chart_decreasing:Performance Slower Than Your Grandma’s Dial-Up**I swear you could load a site on InfinityFree, go make a sandwich, finish a Netflix series, and the site still wouldn’t render. :turtle::hourglass_not_done: It’s like trying to power a spaceship with AA batteries from a dollar store. Their servers lag harder than a Minecraft server hosted on a toaster. And that’s before you get flagged for “overuse.” Bro… *what use? You know what InfinityFree is really good at? Suspending accounts. :hammer: They don’t even blink. You upload one mildly functional script and suddenly you’re banned like you ran a dark web marketplace. Their moderation system is more paranoid than a conspiracy theorist wearing a tinfoil VPN. :stop_sign:Asking for help on InfinityFree’s forums is like yelling into a haunted cave. Either nobody answers, or you get flamed by some 37-year-old gatekeeper with a cat avatar and too much time. :roll_eyes: Their actual staff? Probably living off-grid somewhere laughing every time someone asks why their site won’t load. :man_mage::no_mobile_phones:Every white knight’s final defense is: “But it’s free!” Okay. So is catching the flu. So is stepping on a Lego. So is heartbreak. That doesn’t mean it’s good. :woozy_face: InfinityFree being free is like someone offering you a free car, but it has no wheels, no engine, and explodes if you turn on the radio.Try to run a WebSocket server? Nope. Imageboards? Hell no. File uploads? Limited. Background tasks? Suspended. Basically, if your site does anything beyond static text and pictures of your cat, you’re done. :framed_picture::no_entry: They should rename it to InfinityStaticHTML. Catchy, right?Seriously, what is up with the InfinityFree forums? It’s like Reddit and an HOA board had a baby and gave it anxiety. Ask a question and get ten replies that don’t help, then a mod shows up to lock your thread and hit you with that smug “Read the docs.” It’s the worst parts of Stack Overflow with none of the answers. :judge::-1:InfinityFree is not a hosting platform — it’s a tutorial in frustration. If you actually care about learning, building, or doing anything beyond hosting a blank “Hello World” page, skip it. Use real hosting. Stop defending it like it’s your childhood pet. InfinityFree is not misunderstood. It’s just mid. And no amount of soy-flavored white knighting will change that. :hot_beverage::headstone:InfinityFree is the most ironic name in web hosting history — nothing about it is infinite or free. It’s a glorified suspension simulator where every click brings you closer to a CPU limit breach or a mysterious TOS violation written in ancient runes. White knight chuds crawl out of the forum walls every time someone critiques it, copy-pasting the rules like unpaid hall monitors patrolling a middle school hallway. The dashboard looks like it was designed in 2010 using MS Paint, the servers run slower than a sloth on NyQuil, and trying to launch anything dynamic gets your account shadowbanned harder than a banned TikTok. Their support? A black hole of smug mods and gatekeeping forum lurkers who treat new users like they’re trespassing in Mordor. “But it’s free!” they cry, as if that excuses garbage performance, random takedowns, and UI from the Stone Age. You want to run a chat? Banned. An imageboard? Banned. A portfolio with too many images? SUSPENDED. Their uptime is so bad you’ll spend more time on DownDetector than your own site, and when things break (they always do), the only response you’ll get is “read the docs” from someone who hasn’t seen daylight in 12 years. InfinityFree doesn’t teach web development — it teaches suffering. It’s a trap for beginners who think they’re getting a sweet deal, only to be gaslit by the platform and belittled by soyjack forum dads who treat HTML like sacred scripture. No real developer would touch it, no serious project should be on it, and if you’re still defending it in 2025, you’re not protecting free hosting — you’re protecting the worst decision of your online life. Save your project, your sanity, and your soul: leave InfinityFree behind like the expired meme it is.

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or get shared hosting since if you pay for shared hosting you count your provider reliable for your websites because paid hosting cant delete anything of your account unless its a major violation to their terms of service

i rather go with webhostmost because they are a cheap and affordable web hosting company

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I am going to warn everyone who is about to read my post: it’s a long counter argument about everything the OP has said, plus some extra for OP. Because of how OP wrote their post, I had some help from ChatGPT. If I missed something, let me know.

EDIT: I spelled “Soyjak” wrong. I’m not going to leave it.

:stop_sign: Claim: “InfinityFree suspends sites just for existing.”

:white_check_mark: Reality: InfinityFree only suspends when there’s a clear violation.
Most suspensions happen because people either:

  • Run resource-heavy scripts on free shared hosting (like live chat apps, for example),
  • Or break obvious rules (like trying to host a file-sharing service, which is prohibited).

Running a “chat-type” site is not against the rules unless it eats up CPU/RAM. And even then, your account doesn’t get permanantly suspended; only a 24-hour suspension is applied. That’s not “aggressive moderation” — that’s literally how every free hosting platform enforces fairness.

:speech_balloon: Claim: “You can’t run any kind of chat.”

:white_check_mark: Reality: Yes, you can — just not a real-time one.
You can:

  • Create a forum-style, email-style, or message board-like chat (like JriMail).
  • Embed free, external live chat services like:
    • Tawk.to
    • Chatango
    • Crisp
    • Smartsupp

This keeps the CPU load small, while giving you the same user experience.

:framed_picture: Claim: “You get suspended for having too many images on a portfolio.”

:white_check_mark: Reality: You get suspended for abnormal traffic patterns, not for having images.
InfinityFree doesn’t count image quantity — it looks at how your site uses server power:

  • Are you serving large uncompressed PNGs on every page load?
  • Are thousands of bots hitting your image gallery all at once?
  • Are you accidentally hotlinking your own images on other sites?
  • Are you loading an unnecessary amount of images?

If yes, that’s going to trigger a suspension. Otherwise? Image-heavy portfolios work fine.

If you have to load many large images, it is better to use a CDN or file sharing service, such as Google Drive, to do so.

:turtle: Claim: “InfinityFree is slower than grandma’s dial-up.”

:white_check_mark: Reality: Free hosting ≠ slow hosting, but optimization matters.
InfinityFree’s servers are shared and throttled for fairness, but they aren’t unusable. Most speed issues are because:

  • People upload bloated, unoptimized code,
  • They use too many plugins/scripts that hog resources,
  • Or their pages are server-heavy experiments meant for VPS-level hosting.

Build smart, keep scripts lean, and your site will load just fine. InfinityFree isn’t Cloudflare CDN fast, but it’s more than capable of powering lightweight, well-coded projects.

:books: Claim: “The forums are full of soyjak dads who just copy-paste rules.”

:white_check_mark: Reality: The forums are community-moderated and 100% free.
The people helping out are volunteers, not paid staff. They’ve probably answered your exact question a hundred times.
If someone tells you “read the docs,” it’s because… the docs answer your question. And mods lock threads to stop circular flame-wars, not because they hate you.

Want friendly help? Ask clearly. Avoid rage-posting.

:brick: Claim: “It’s too limited to do anything dynamic.”

:white_check_mark: Reality: InfinityFree supports tons of dynamic features.
Here’s what you can do:

  • PHP + MySQL-based websites
  • Login systems
  • Blogs with comments (if you’re careful with traffic)
  • Form submissions
  • Dynamic content with GET/POST parameters
  • jQuery / JavaScript interactivity
  • Contact forms
  • Upload small files to the /htdocs directory

What you can’t do (and this is reasonable):

  • Run cron jobs (people have abused cron jobs in the past)
  • Host a full WebSocket server (security system)
  • Serve as an image CDN or file storage backend (Try Google Drive)
  • Abuse server CPU with infinite loops or poorly written code

That’s not oppression. That’s free shared hosting 101.

:locked: Claim: “They block everything dynamic.”

:white_check_mark: Reality: They just block stuff that would wreck shared performance.

  • Want to serve static content? :white_check_mark:
  • PHP pages? :white_check_mark:
  • Server-side logic? :white_check_mark:
  • Background processes that run 24/7 and hog CPU or RAM? :cross_mark:

If your website does good logic and loads fast, you’re golden.

:technologist: Claim: “No serious dev would touch InfinityFree.”

:white_check_mark: Reality: Every serious dev started somewhere.
No pro hosts a billion-dollar app on a free server. Duh. But for:

  • MVPs (Minimum Viable Products),
  • Demos,
  • Early-stage personal projects,
  • Student work,
  • Lightweight portfolios,

InfinityFree is perfect. It even supports custom domains, SSL, and file uploads — rare for free hosts.

In fact, I am planning on becoming a future website developer, and I use InfinityFree because it is a great service for me.

:bullseye: Claim: “InfinityFree is a suspension simulator.”

:white_check_mark: Reality: InfinityFree is what you make of it.
If you build something lean, clever, and efficient, you’ll rarely — if ever — see a suspension.
If you try to turn it into AWS on a budget of $0, yes — you’ll hit a wall.

That’s not InfinityFree being evil. That’s you expecting Ferrari performance from a go-kart.

:brain: Final Thoughts

You’re not being censored. You’re being asked to follow the rules of a free service that gives you:

  • Hosting with no ads on your website
  • Full FTP access
  • Free SSL certificates
  • 400 MySQL databases
  • 24/7 uptime (barring limits)
  • A community to ask for help
    And it charges zero dollars. For what it is, InfinityFree is unmatched — as long as your expectations are realistic and your code is built for the service.

Keep your opinions, seemingly you won’t change them. That’s fine by all of us. I have my opinions, you have yours, people have theirs. But they are your opinions, something you may want to keep to yourself. Unless you intend to anger other people who have good opinions about something, avoid sharing yours. We may not convince you to change, and that’s fine. We’ve had people dislike InfinityFree and move on. If you hate InfinityFree as much as you do, go ahead and look for another hosting service, we don’t care. At least you tried out the service.

You may vent out again, and I bet you are going to do so with my post, but I have to ask you: What’s the point? As you can see, I can’t change your opinions, and you can’t change mine.

I’ve had a terrible experience here using the InfinityFree service once. One of my Hosting accounts was hit with a DDoS attack, which caused the account to be suspended. Yeah, I did say something on the forum about that, but did I go rant about how bad the service is because of that? No, I didn’t see a point in doing so. I knew I couldn’t change opinions, so I kept mine. My account suspension was eventually lifted, but had I shared my opinion that I had at the time, I don’t think that would have happened. I would have, eventually, moved on.

Go on, tell me how I am a white knight, a soyjak, blah blah blah. Go tell everyone you know that @Jri-Creator is defending a service that you believe is horrible. But you aren’t going to change much.

Good luck, and may your future be bright.

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This indeed is not tech support, it is a community forum.

That is allowed. Chat scripts are not allowed due to high server usage. Please remember that this is shared hosting, not “we have a pc for you only”.

That’s straight up AI nonsense

My website loads up just fine, perhaps its either the php script, images or just straight up AI generating nonsense

…Theres a lot of functioning PHP website that dont break the ToS, BTW.

First of all, Ive never seen a post without a reaction. Second of all, there is no gatekeeper and only Admin is “staff”, the owner of InfinityFree

Background tasks are supported when loading a page (max 60s) but cron jobs are not available. What are you expecting from a free service?

I’m not even going to read the rest of this AI generated post. Either follow the rules correctly or go to another hosting provider.

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The reason this hosting is called ‘InfinityFree’ is because it is forever free. If you were expecting unlimited power, then no, that is not possible. infinite computer power does not exist.

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summerized:
The author expresses frustration with the web hosting service InfinityFree, criticizing its numerous restrictions and poor performance. They describe the service as misleadingly named, suggesting that “infinity” refers to the endless limitations rather than true freedom. The author highlights issues such as frequent suspensions for minor violations, slow server speeds, and unhelpful customer support. They argue that InfinityFree is not suitable for anyone looking to build a functional website, as it punishes users for attempting to run anything beyond basic static content. Ultimately, the author advises against using InfinityFree, calling it a frustrating experience that does not provide real value despite being free.

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also if you feel uncomfortable about infinityfree, then just delete your damm infinityfree account and paid a proper cpanel hosting, you will get power, customer support and enless paying to get your useless site working

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It’s clear that you don’t like our hosting, but that’s not a valid reason to go spout such wild and obviously false accusations.

Yes, you don’t like that we suspended your website and you don’t agree with it. You’re entitled to that opinion.

But the things you’re claiming here are so obviously so far fetched and so wrong that it would take me hours to respond to everything in detail.

Your forum profile has already been silenced to give you a little bit of time to thing. But I don’t see anything good coming from continuing this topic.

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