Questions re: free hosting plan - before making the switch

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SMTP up
say in Thunderbird to receive emails

Are you sure? Because SMTP is used for sending email, not receiving it with a mail client.

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/email-security/what-is-smtp/

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but I am getting the same server error

What error? Just saying “I got an error” is not helpful.

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But what does that entail exactly?

Exactly what it says. Free hosting comes with limited DNS management if you are using free hosting namservers / free subdomain.

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And as Unlimited Hits are not supported, how many hits can one have on a site?

You can search the forum for some of these

What does the hits limit mean

One of the limits InfinityFree enforces is the “hits” limit. This article explains what a hit is, how you can control your hits usage and what happens if you exceed the limit. What is a hit? A hit is a simply request to a file on your website, which can be a HTML or PHP page, an image, a CSS file or something else. A hit is not the same as a page view, visit or visitor. Visitor can visit your website multiple times, a visit can include multiple page views, and a single page view can include mu…