My name is Ezequiel, and I am a programming instructor in Brazil.
I am planning to use InfinityFree with approximately 500 students as part of our public high school curriculum (teaching HTML, CSS, basic PHP, and MySQL). To ensure accountability and legitimacy, every single student will register using their official government-issued educational email address: @escola.pr.gov.brescola.pr.gov.br.
As a public school initiative, we strongly believe that “Education is a fundamental human right, and access to digital tools is the key to unlocking that right in the modern world.” Your platform is an incredible gateway for these students to experience real-world web development for the first time.
However, during our initial tests from the school’s local network, we encountered the platform’s security challenge (the blank screen/cookie validation for anti-bot protection). Since hundreds of students will be accessing InfinityFree simultaneously from the exact same institutional IP, we are highly concerned that the automated firewall will block our school entirely.
A white screen appears with a local access limit.
Is there any possibility of a formal whitelist for our school’s public IP, or a special consideration for accounts registered under the @escola.pr.gov.br domain?
Thank you for your time, support, and for helping us provide accessible tech education!
The security challenge only appears on your website for a split second to verify that you are a real user using a real browser to access the page. It won’t block you or anyone in any kind of way if they are using a browser; the security challenge is to verify that you are using a browser, not to verify that you are one single user, so you can let your students use it with no problem.
The only problem is that I’m afraid that if too many students visit your website at the same time and access a lot of pages, it can spike your CPU limit and your daily hit usage, which if you do, it will temporarily suspend your website for 1 day.
Can you explain this part more? There are automated systems that will block an IP address if it accesses the free hosting network too many times, but to my knowledge it does not show any sort of access limit message. That sounds like something that your network/ISP is producing.
Thank you for your message. We’re happy to provide hosting to your students!
Let me first start by establishing a few boundaries:
The anti-bot protection system is mandatory on all websites and cannot be disabled. But this does not affect your students any differently than anyone else using our services.
We cannot weaken security measures for individual accounts, especially not for all accounts under an entire subdomain.
500 users under a single IP address could potentially cause issues, both on the user side and the visitor side. But it’s a bit hard to say beforehand what will happen, so I think you can just get started and we’ll look into any issues as they come up.