> Free software is one thing, but free hosting? Hosting basically boils down to the fact that ~98% of your users will use a small portion of your resources. Th

> Free software is one thing, but free hosting? Hosting basically boils down to the fact that ~98% of your users will use a small portion of your resources. This is why hundreds - even thousands - of users are shoved onto a single shared server (all without ever having a problem). Considering disk and bandwidth is cheap - it's really inexpensive to host users. 2% of your users will attempt to use 50% or more of your resources - and those are the ones that you kick to the curb or arrange some sort of payment. I used to do free web hosting and now have switch to just free source code hosting. A perfect example of this is this story [1]. I'm sure a good 90% of people who sign up for the free slack service only use a small blip of usage. [1] http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-...