I was first referred to Frihost back in 2006 by this thread (or specifically LostOverThere). It was just what I was after. Ad-free, Free and plenty of space and bandwidth. My year (or so) of search for a host was over. I ended up signing up on the 19th of March, making my first post here 3 days later.
mathiaus accepted my request 6 days later (on the 22nd) and from there I started work. The first thing I can remember doing was setting up phpBB and themeing it. The site, GazGames was originally going to be a place where I host my games, and hence used the sub-domain gazgames.frih.net. Well that idea never took off, and I ended up being the 9th person to request a sub-domain change in August. I purchased my first domain later that month (gwplus.net) and the idea I had for that also fell through. I created my first blog on the site, not for me, but for a friend in September and ended up re-branding it to Garion's Blog (at which you can find it today at gwplus.net.
Throughout all of this I stuck with Frihost, one of the longest time's I've ever remained with a webhost. I continued posting here throughout all of it, spending most of my time in the suggestions forum, but occasionally stepping out and going to a different one for a change.
During January last year, I signed up for adsense for my blog. In the 15 months I've had it, I've made just over 13 dollars - all thanks to Frihost (who let me use advertisements). Then in May, I started a new project movopia and I continue to work on it to this day. I purchased the domain movopia.com in August along with re-newing the gwplus brand for another year. I still have hopes of getting movopia finished sometime this year, but I've just got to stay focused enough
Something happened during January this year and I must have forgot about Frihost. I returned to it just in time to revive my points (I was hovering around 0) but somehow I haven't been able to fully recover. It might have something to do with the extra school work I have this year, or the lack of interesting topics to post in. But none-the-less I still kept (trying) to return here.
It was out of luck that I stumbled by a topic on Whirlpool today, advertising free webhosts. I found an all-Australian owned and hosted site, and although they had not-quite as many features of Frihost, I still applied. I was accepted, and am moving to my new host shortly.
So I would like to use this post to ask that my hosting account be closed. But more importantly I would like to thank Bondings for 2 years of excellent hosting. If Frihost was hosted in Australia and I had a bit more time on my hands, I would still be hosted here into the future. But, unfortunately I have to move on. There are some fantastic moderators and admins here, and I would like to thank them below:
There are some I've forgotten, and so I apologise if you're not on that list
I may still drop by here in the future (I've got 900 points to give away
and a couple of promotions I'd like to run for movopia) but for now, I won't be active. Thankyou once again.
- Garion
mathiaus accepted my request 6 days later (on the 22nd) and from there I started work. The first thing I can remember doing was setting up phpBB and themeing it. The site, GazGames was originally going to be a place where I host my games, and hence used the sub-domain gazgames.frih.net. Well that idea never took off, and I ended up being the 9th person to request a sub-domain change in August. I purchased my first domain later that month (gwplus.net) and the idea I had for that also fell through. I created my first blog on the site, not for me, but for a friend in September and ended up re-branding it to Garion's Blog (at which you can find it today at gwplus.net.
Throughout all of this I stuck with Frihost, one of the longest time's I've ever remained with a webhost. I continued posting here throughout all of it, spending most of my time in the suggestions forum, but occasionally stepping out and going to a different one for a change.
During January last year, I signed up for adsense for my blog. In the 15 months I've had it, I've made just over 13 dollars - all thanks to Frihost (who let me use advertisements). Then in May, I started a new project movopia and I continue to work on it to this day. I purchased the domain movopia.com in August along with re-newing the gwplus brand for another year. I still have hopes of getting movopia finished sometime this year, but I've just got to stay focused enough
Something happened during January this year and I must have forgot about Frihost. I returned to it just in time to revive my points (I was hovering around 0) but somehow I haven't been able to fully recover. It might have something to do with the extra school work I have this year, or the lack of interesting topics to post in. But none-the-less I still kept (trying) to return here.
It was out of luck that I stumbled by a topic on Whirlpool today, advertising free webhosts. I found an all-Australian owned and hosted site, and although they had not-quite as many features of Frihost, I still applied. I was accepted, and am moving to my new host shortly.
So I would like to use this post to ask that my hosting account be closed. But more importantly I would like to thank Bondings for 2 years of excellent hosting. If Frihost was hosted in Australia and I had a bit more time on my hands, I would still be hosted here into the future. But, unfortunately I have to move on. There are some fantastic moderators and admins here, and I would like to thank them below:
- Animal
- mathiaus
- mOrpheuS
- James007
- Vrythramax
- Daniel15
- tidruG
There are some I've forgotten, and so I apologise if you're not on that list
I may still drop by here in the future (I've got 900 points to give away
and a couple of promotions I'd like to run for movopia) but for now, I won't be active. Thankyou once again.
- Garion
