What Is InfinityFree?
InfinityFree is a relatively new name in the hosting game, but their services rightfully earned them a top rank in our list. Now, their website doesn’t say much about the company, which I always find somewhat suspicious. However, anonymity is rather common among free site hosting providers, so I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I found out their domain was registered back in 2015, and the company claim to host over 300,000 websites to date.
Sounds impressive, but let’s take a look under the hood.
Ease of Use
Signing up for InfinityFree was a breeze, and my welcome emails arrived in due course. The client area pleases the eye with a polished design and modern feel. Everything is self-explanatory, and I had no troubles navigating around.
InfinityFree makes use of VistaPanel, which is a re-skinned cPanel, except it’s more lightweight and a bit poorer feature-wise. Still, it contains all the needed tools and solutions on how to host a website for free — you’ve got the email settings, database manager, 1-click auto installer, all the works.
Features
One of the first things you will notice with the InfinityFree accounts is the unlimited space and bandwidth promise. It doesn’t take an engineering degree to figure out how ridiculous that “deal” is. Every server resource has its limits, so how do you suppose your account will overcome that?
Just try to upload a 20GB video or forward a bit more traffic to your website, and you’ll see why you can’t spell unlimitedwithout limit.
The good thing about InfinityFree is they make no effort to hide the actual resource caps. The control panel reveals relatively high limits for emails (10), databases (400), number of files (30,000), and number of daily hits (50,000).
To top it all off, InfinityFree is one of the few free hosts which include a Cloudflare CDN for all types of clients.
The only minor downside is you are only allowed to use a single FTP account, which makes it harder for more than one person to work on the project.
Support
InfinityFree does not provide live chat support, but that is not so uncomommon among free web hosting providers. So, my good grades here are based purely on the usefulness of the other resources.
The forum community is incredibly helpful, and company members often address client issues quite promptly. The knowledge base offers about 70 well-written articles, which cover most of the common queries a starter might have.
Overall, the host makes sure you don’t feel left out just because you are not paying them a dime.
Performance
I tested the performance of all free web hosting sites on this list with a fresh WordPress installation. InfinityFree proved to be one of the best in terms of speed with only 454ms TTFB (time to first byte) and 0.8s onload time.
Now:
I ‘m not a fan of technical mumbo-jumbo myself, so let me clear that up a little.
TTFB indicates the responsiveness of the web server or, simply put, the time it takes your website request to reach the server. CLICK TO TWEET
So, you can have the most optimized page but still see it load slowly because of low server responsiveness.
The onload stat relates to the time it takes the server to load the full page, along with the images, CSS, and all site elements. Any clean installation with no fancy theme and plugins should have a very low load time, and InfinityFree was no exception.
The uptime stats were also flattering, with a 100% uptime over my initial 30-day test.
Verdict
Despite some obvious marketing gimmicks, InfinityFree is a free web host that has a lot to offer. The performance tests were impressive, and the support level proved satisfactory. The host provides a free subdomain upon signup, so you can safely give them a shot if you don’t have a budget for a paid provider.