I am curious as to what experience you's have had with free web hosting services in the past.

I'm looking for a new PHP host, after the last site I was using decided to randomly delete all my files .

I do not want anything permanent, just some were I can do "live" stress & bug testing of my code.

Note: I do not have the money for paid hosting right now

terrible data waste. Or do pay 30 bugs for some naive data place, or, buy computer and let it get housed, Free hosting= no data

You could just set up a small filezilla server on a raspberry pi...but If you do want free hosting, keep in mind that many free hosts restrict certain file types like jars, zips, and exes...

Besides that is may be a little slow, and they may have some kind of hits per month requirement, free hosting has worked out pretty good for me the few times I used it.

I used this place for a while, not sure if it meets your requirements though...

What exactly do you mean by "Live stress testing". How much data space and bandwidth do you expect to be using?

I enjoy X10Hosting. Give them a try.

I haven't used any free web hosting since Geocities in the late 90s, but depending on what your needs are there are some paid hosts available very cheaply.

NearlyFreeSpeech offer a pay-for-what-you-actually-use pricing model that can be very cheap for low usage, and they accept very small deposits; they're a little less user-friendly, but if they meet your needs they even continue to perform well for larger/busier sites, although depending on your usage they may end up more expensive than other hosts in those cases.

I'm just not sure that live stress testing on a free host will probably have you on a resource-starved shared server, possibly with some functionality disabled will get you results that are actually meaningful compared to the same code running in a proper environment.

Yes, what exactly are you stress testing?

If you want to see if your PHP code is fast, can you do it on localhost?

000webhost.com is the best free webhost I've used.

1500 MB Webspace

100 GB Bandwidth

I doubt the average person here is using much more than a 100 GB a month..

Most free hosts do not like people "stress testing" because they oversell considerably, so the advertised resources are actually not there for everyone. In other words, when you stray from their expectations you are removed from their servers pronto - check their TOS, there will probably be a small clause about "fair usage" or the likes somewhere.

Yes, what exactly are you stress testing?

If you want to see if your PHP code is fast, can you do it on localhost?

By "stress testing", I am referring to many users on at the same time, attempting to intentionally break my web site.

I have some very good server software on my box, however I need other people for proper testing of code ( 127.0.0.1 is a very lonely place to be ).

Last test I was running was a non SQL user database I created, I'll have to start that test all over again * sigh *