About Frihost (under construction)

Frihost

Frihost is a popular internet community, founded in april 2005. It was originally oriented towards technical and web hosting related topics, as we provided and continue to provide completely free web hosting. We are, however, evolving into a social community website with free web hosting as simply one of our many features.

We also provide a free web hosting account to all active members of our community. At least 5 quality posts are needed to apply for an account. Participating in our community by posting in our forums or commenting on blog posts and pictures is required to keep that account. For more information about the whole process, please check our Hosting Guide.

Our Community Forums with over 25,000 members and over 500,000 posts are a gathering place for people all over the world to discuss a variety of topics ranging from computers and software to relationships and philosophy. They also include a few forums in other languages like Dutch, Polish, French, Spanish, Turkish and Portuguese. The forums are moderated firmly by our staff in order to avoid any spamming, flaming and unwanted posts.

The Frihost Directory, yet another feature we provide to our members, is certainly worth a look and contains some of the websites we host.

Staff

Site Admin

Bondings

Steve "Bondings" founded Frihost in april 2005 and owns and administrates this whole website.

Junior Admins

tidruG

tidruG's real name, ironically, is Gurdit. This was the first web-board I joined, and got addicted to the concept of an online community right away. Becoming a Moderator in less than a month of joining the forums gave me the opportunity to give back to Frihost and its community as much as I got from it. In fact, I enjoyed the forums so much that I stopped working on my website to participate more in the forums. I was later "promoted" to be an Account Creator and help create hosting accounts for new users. A few months back, I was offered the position of Junior Admin (which, naturally, I accepted with delight), and this gives me the incredibly fun perk of being able to access the famed Frihost Admin CP and ban people. Currently in college, I have very less time to dedicate to my website, which has been under construction for months now. However, I do find the time to keep and update a simple blog called Thought Overflow.

Bockman

I'm 29 years old and I'm Portuguese. I already had white hairs (hmm.. did Frihost have anything to do with that.. I wonder...) before I married last year to the woman that I hope will stand by my side throughout life. I have an 8 months old son that put's a smile on my face everyday when i get home from work. They would be the main reason why you don't see me around Frihost (or a PC, for that matter) off work hours.

During the day I divide myself between my real life work as a Systems Administrator, and Frihost. I am a regular at other forums too, with that same nick (and a similar avatar) so you might find me around.

At the moment there isn't much time for hobbies (unless you can consider changing dippers and feeding babies a hobby) but when I have time i dedicate myself to the most varied sports, being it football, basketball, voleyball, body board, skating, BTT, or any other sport that may put me to an hospital :P I'm also very fond of reading and playing games on my PC, mostly Counter Strike and PES6. Don't know if you agree, but my work is also one of my hobbies, so when i have time, i spend lot's of hours testing new software and building up new stuff that i can later on use at work.

I've been with Frihost from day one (or was that day two? hehehe) and I'm the oldest active human in our forums. I joined the staff not long after this, mainly because i already had experience in moderating other forums (200K+ users) and the rest of it you can easilly check in our forums. Believe it or not I stumbled uppon frihost by accident and have never left since. Hope I brought something good to Frihost and am not just remembered as the mean administrator (being mean comes with the job, I guess...)

mOrpheuS

In the red corner, weighing in at 200 pounds, three KOs 5 wins and 1 loss in 6 matches ... Intrrrrrroducing .. Myself !!!

Account creators

mathiaus

I'm an 18 year old British Patriot. I (unofficially) represent the UK at Frihost, attempting to change the currently non-existent 'Account Creator' rank to resemble the St George's Flag (according to James).

I initially signed up to Frihost very soon after it's creation after finding it in my detailed search for open hosts. My needs required features which other free hosts simply didn't provide. After testing the unique process and then the exceptional hosting, I transferred my project at that time over and became more involved in the community, later being appointed a moderator, which led to more work when I became an Account Creator. I enjoy my work at Frihost, meeting people of all ages, cultures and even languages, every person having a unique set of interests. Some people I have been able to help, teach and guide, others have doen the same for me.

My real name's Matthew. 'mathiaus' originated from my auntie attempting to convert my name to a 'Latin-Roman' name. I liked the result. I've just finished college, after studying for a BTEC National Diploma in It (worth 3 A-Levels) and CCNA and ITE1. I'm not sure where my future will lead me yet. I'll be sure to update when I do though.

I learned all of my web skills through my first website. A Harry Potter fan site, Sirius Black's. Through my progression of HTML & CSS, I discovered programming and started PHP & MySQL. Now I work on the FriMs project, Frihost's unofficial CMS community project. I mainly avoid all of the aesthetic work, concentrating on the code behind it all.

Animal

Hey, I'm "Animal." I joined Frihost in late 2005 looking for a webhost to publish e-ignite - my privacy-related website. Frihost offered the best feature-set that I could find, and the community forums were both interesting and easy to become part of. After finding the vast amount of professional features available with Frihost's services, it fast became a learning experience for me and launched my interest in website development. Thanks to the services Frihost offers and the excellent support available via the community forums, I was able to gain the skills and experience required to create and launch several different websites. I now offer help and support to friends and family using knowledge gained through Frihost.

I was appointed as a Forum Moderator and Account Creator, and was more than happy to directly support the community that was so accommodating to me. Personally, I enjoy both listening to and playing music, enjoy a number of sports and spend too much time and money in my car - all of which have to take place when I'm not at work. My pet hates include TV "Talent" Shows, bad music (see previous statement) and forum spammers!

Vrythramax

Hi my nickname is Vrythramax (most people just call me Max...it saves typing). When I am not at my regular job I spend most of my free time here at Frihost. My duties here include Moderating the forums, Reviewing Web Hosting requests and providing support for the accounts I create, I am also the IRC_Admin so if any of you wish to speak to me in real-time I can usually be found at irc.dal.net in the channel #Frihost...so why not stop by and say hello...we don't bite. You can also view my website at http://kenshi.frihost.net, but be warned, your browser better be able to view flash.

I joined Frihost in January of last year and it has been one of the most fun rides I have been on. Some of the posts we receive are at times just hilarious. Working here at Frihost is simply the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

James007

Hello everybody. You might not know but being a double-o seven isn't easy. I registered at the end of summer '05 and I pretty soon became the Dutch language moderator (as I volunteered for that position when the Dutch forum got created). A little later I became a "global moderator" and I got the opportunity to contribute more to the forums. I'm creating (and rejecting) accounts for quite some time now too.

I enjoy being a moderator very much and I would like to keep this job for a very long time. I think the Frihost moderating team is one of the most proficient teams I ever saw and I'm very happy to be part of it.

According to tidruG, users who are spamming should fear me, but I wouldn't have a clue why. (Okay, maybe I do.)

Visit my site at www.salvi.be.

Moderators

Helios

Greetings fellow humans! Thou shalt call me Helios, for I have no real name. I'm also known under the rather ironic nickname of "SainT". I am living in Israel, Tel-Aviv. I speak three languages: Hebrew (I guess I can call it my mother tongue), Russian (know it from school) and English, which I also know from school. Some don't believe that English is actually my third language, but that's honestly the truth.

Usually I spend my time on studying, but I also have some hobbies, like: hiking the wonderful trails of The Holy Land, music and developing websites. You can visit my humble website at Reviews Underground, and I hope you'll leave some feedback.

FriHost gave me the opportunity to discover the realms of website developing much further than I had discovered before joining this site on the first of May back in 2005. The service provided by FriHost is absolutely a marvel to behold! And it's for free! Or should I say "fri"? ;)

Posting on the forums is great fun. There are so many interesting topics. For the past two years I can't remember getting annoyed or bored from posting on the boards. Apart from that, I also got free hosting - just for posting! All I can say is 'thanks!'. Being a moderator, well, that's just my way of saying 'thanks'. I enjoy contributing, and hope to be remembered as someone who had contributed a lot in his life.

rvec

Hello everyone, I am Rvec in real life known as Yaron. I am 18 years old and I live in Holland. I am still going to school daily and play guitar when I have to much spare time.

I registered on Frihost in 11-2005 and was only active on the dutch forums at first. I didn't want to become a mod at that time but that would change when I went to the English sections and became active on the IRC chat. On 9-2007 I became a moderator and co-owner of the IRC-bot.

When I registered on Frihost I needed the hosting. After a while I got my own server so I didn't need the hosting as much as I did before. I still kept posting on the forums because of the friendly people and the great support on everything.

Language Moderators

mariohs

mariohs (as mathiaus, small "m") joined Frihost in October, 2005 looking for a webhost to start blogging. I took no time to find Frihost community wonderful and start helping other members while dealing with website development and also with generic doubts, specially in Portuguese forums. I was then invited by Bockman to join Frihost team (which I found out to be a great team), as a language moderator. I accepted it immediately and now Frihost tooks so much from my spare time that I still haven't put my website online :D. I'm from Brazil, and moderate the Portuguese forums together with Bockman.