I have been using a free web hosting for more than a year, but last month I found that I was unable to access my website. I looked into this problem at once, and I learned that my account had been suspended. It was online when I checked it out two weeks before, but somehow the company that runs that web hosting service suspended my account. Of course my website in question is in no way illegal, and I have never violated their terms of service. So I asked them about this problem, but they did not answer my question. This web hosting service is Free space.net. You can read my question there.
I know many free web hosting services have difficulty surviving, but this case is outrageous. It is fine to stop hosting any website that they host on their servers, but at least they should warn its webmaster in advance. They should also answer questions from its users even if they have suspended them.
It is getting ridiculous to rely on such services. I think we all need to register a domain and use it on a free web server or a paid one from now on. If we rely on an unstable service like Free space.net, all the efforts we have made to build a website will be wasted in the end, and we have to do everything all over. We lose all the inbound links. This problem is very serious in an age when search sites control almost all the traffic on the Web.
It costs some money to register a domain, but I think it is worth it, considering the amount of time we need to spend in building a website. If we are to minimize the running cost of a website, we may need to use affiliate programs to cover the cost.
Use of an affiliate program lowers the credibility of a website, and that is a problem we need to think about from now on. However, there seems to be no other way to build a website without spending much money.
So, that is what happened, and my website "Sennin's Shield" moved to the following new URL: Sennin's Shiled.