Anyone experience with this free hosting? 000webhost.com/ they offer a pretty good, but I don't seem to believe what they are offer. not only provide best deal in free host, but will pay you 5 dollars for every people you refer. I just wonder how they make money, with free hosting, no ads force and pay you 5 dollars every person you refer. Any try this before?
I have not tried them, but do have worked with similar hosts. The money comes from ad revenue / banners etc in control panel and when someone upgrades from free to paid hosting. HTH
"Why it's all free? How do you earn? We have 3 funding sources: we own paid hosting company, and we have strong financial ground; our service is user donations supported - each day we receive donations from happy users; and finally, we earn by offering paid upgrades for those who need more disk space and more services."
I found this thread about them. Have a look at it. - http://www.freewebhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=7762
I can see that they make money with advertising, but how do they come up with 5 dollars for one referral? so if there 100 referral sign up, they lost 500 dollars a day. I don't think the donation, advertising are even close to that. Anyway, as you know at free hosting website, people rarely upgrade, because they want free host that's why they go to that site.