000WebHost .. Just Scammers !

This blog was hosted at 000WebHost before transferring it to KVCHosting. I was, like all new members there, showing some of their banners for their “great” referral income that they offer. I was really amazed of how they can provide so much space and bandwidth, with no ads, and no cons. I started to get doubts when my website was taking about 3 minutes to get displayed on a 20Mo connexion .. I said to my self that it can’t be a problem as may be they are overselling their web hosting and that overselling with those great services is an obligation to “survive”. But, even doing so, they really can’t survive in web hosting business as they have to pay many things ! And who will choose paid things if they have so much great things for free ? Here is the full story about 000WebHost, especially, their Scams !

I thing 40% of users choose 000WebHost as a “Trial Host” before starting their web site, blog, forum or any other Web project. Many of them, like even me, will certainly get attracted by their affiliates system that is offering up to 5 $ per referral ! Now things start to be mysterious ! 5 $ for a free account ? How can you gain from it ? Do you have a “Chris Angel” that transform free to millions ?

No body, ABSOLUTELY No body, ever got paid from their affiliate system, not me, neither my friends … I searched on the Internet about “000WebHost” scams and guess what ? 128 000 result for that keyword .. You will certainly ask your self what is the goal of it if no payout is done .. 000WebHost is a little son of hosting24, 000webhost was essentially made to create backlinks (as you can see on every page of 000webhost website) and good SEO for their website, then, when it become a well known web host, they used 000webhost to offer a Paid version of their service (which is the same offer at hosting24). Another thing to mention before continue, they don’t offer Cpanel 11 for free accounts because it’s paid, but because all their accounts are shared between ONE ACCOUNT ! How I know this ? Because I was a host before 000WebHost domain name is just an account at Hosting24 that have unlimited addon domains and parked domains and Ftp accounts .. Things that are always unlimited in dedicated and virtual servers. A well known free php scripts that are used by poor web hosts just give hosts the opportunity to give to an user some space, bandwidth, FTP, subdomains, parked domains, addon domains and MySQL databases, just what 000webhost offer in the free version WITHOUT Cpanel You can see the script and it’s functions on the Zubrag website.

Anyway, let’s pass that thing and go to the 30 to 60 days verification. Once you reach the limit of clients before payout, they will send you a mail or notification about a change on Rules :

“Announcement: we have started to use 60 days signup verification procedure (we used 30 days signup verification system before). That is because we received lots of fraudulent signups especially from Vietnam and China and we need more time to check everything. So if you have referred user today, it will be credited in 2 months. We need these 2 months to protect us from fraudulent signups. We are sorry if we made any inconveniences for you and let us to know if you have any questions”

The funniest thing here is that some one, using the username suncoastfashion, at Digg.com blog just said: “FUNNY though, because I ONLY accept US traffic through google adwords and facebook ads, so there is NO POSSIBLE WAY that you were getting ANY Chinese and/or Vietnamese traffic to my referral link.“, and this will certainly make thinks clearer for you.
Until now, we know that they Never payout, Sharing one cpanel account, oversell, fake announcements .. What more ? Let me finish then with the referral system and how no body got paid .. Once you will start asking question, they will just terminate your account ! Hundreds of persons passed a lot of time driving traffic to them in hope of some dollars in end of that month ? And then ? Nothing, even their website will be gone ! Yes ! Many of my friends found their web sites gone with no backup once they will ask for a payout or anything related to it .. Their Affiliates system is just a way to drive more traffic to hosting24, which is the head of those scams, 000WebHost is just a name, hosting24, the whole game.

Tahir Jamil, another customer, said on a Reviews directory : “Here I want to provide very serious review about 000webhost.com. My review is endorsed by hundreds of customers. 000webhost.com provides very unreliable free hosting. One you get their free hosting 000webhost.com will try their best to make you paid customer. 000webhost.com often let customers purchase domain by these tactics. By the pretext of single complain 000webhost.com will remove your websites. It is the time when there are hundreds of jealous competitors but 000webhost.com does not care about free customers.
000webhost.com told me that they will not remove any of my website if I become their paid customer. So, 000webhost.com free hosting is just a trap to make paid customers. 000webhost.com deleted my account without warning and hijacked my high traffic websites by giving their full page advertisement in place of my removed websites which are provided below.
http://www.pakistanwebdesign.co.cc/ , http://www.pakistannewsarticles.co.cc/ , http://www.tuitionacademylahore.co.cc/“

Zukinet also said : “Hello 000webhost,
i want to ask about affiliate’s payment. Why i still not get paid for this new month ??
i have submitted ticket with title “Affiliate Request: please inform me about my payment”, and my site become offline .. ?
Please, i need your explanation. “

And the last quote on this “little” review, from qnetwork, a drupal user : “After several months of having received poor hosted websites. (poor speed and a lot of server down-time) I started their affiliate program. 5 dollars for every signup you bring in.

Their webhosting is free, yes, but their affiliate program is a SCAM.

And thus in short, 000webhost.com is A SCAM. They do not reply to support requests and simply suspend your affiliate account when you have 305 dollars to be paid out. Payments were postponed 3 times. Each time they had some obscure reason why payments were postponed. And at the end, your account will be gone. No way to claim anything, it will simply be suspended.

Don’t fall for the 000webhost.com scam. They are scammers and don’t pay out! They simply remove your affiliate account and you have no means of contacting them.“

Now, I will be glad to collect here the biggest number of scammed persons as I’m collecting a claim the Internet FBI so that it get shut down before scamming more poor persons .. Such things make many of us feel so bad, so weak .. Let’s stop it !