I started offering free hosting in 2011, opened the first service as Grendel Hosting in 2012, and moved everything to InfinityFree in 2016.
InfinityFree (and it’s predecessors) has quite consistently grown since it was first created. Combined with a normal customer churn (projects which end, people who lose interest), this results in many people being quite new. But there are many people who’ve created their website with us in 2016 and have been running it happily for years.
If you were hoping to read a great story about how I’m trying to make the world a better place, I’m sorry to disappoint. The free hosting project started as a fun hobby while in school when I found YouHosting. But I offered a good, stable service for a long time, and more and more people trusted me to host their websites.
When YouHosting went downhill fast in late 2015, I switched over to iFastNet’s platform, where I was able to identify an opportunity to create a great service. I realized I could take the fast and reliable platform of iFastNet and offer it in a more user friendly package that iFastNet did. This worked out well and has allowed me to grow InfinityFree rapidly ever since.
But it all started as a hobby which got out of hand.