My search for free web hosting services landed me at GB Free Hosting. An initial review of their service looked promising: nicely populated FAQ, relatively good English, recent updates (as of 2015), and reasonable terms of service.

Unfortunately, from the moment I signed up to the time I attempted to access my hosting space, my experience has been far from superlative.

I encountered significant delays getting my sign up confirmations. When my account activation did finally arrive, it took some time to navigate their customized control panel looking for FTP information. Attempting to then use the FTP info resulted in refused connections.

I then attempted to reach their support by submitting a ticket through their control panel interface. To this day, the ticket has remained in Open status, presumably ignored. I also tried sending an email through their website contact form, which most likely fell into a black hole.

A registration lookup for the domain reveals an administration contact located in Islamabad, Punjab, through the GoDaddy registrar. Based on ping tests, the website itself is hosted somewhere in Bulgaria. Various reputation review sites ranks the domain gbfreehosting.com as risky and low on the trustworthiness scale. The IP block trace to my account’s server IP reveals registration to an Amsterdam, NL organization but places the server possibly in Kansas, US. Further ARIN searches revealed that the server hosting is managed by Hostinger International.

Due to the convoluted, suspicious server trail and the lack of contact/feedback with the site administrators, GBFreehosting.com is therefore not recommended and should be avoided.