I Won A Free BizzHost Web Hosting For One Year

UPDATED 072909 Joining blog contests really has its benefits. I was a bit surprised when I got an email with a subject Congrats - You won a consolation prize in Tech @ InkAPoint contest. That's surprising yeah. My first time.

But there's a big catch, a really big "small" catch. The free web hosting I got from BizzHost, an Indian company, is only 100MB disk space and 1G per month Bandwidth. What the freakin' hell am I going to use that for?! Aw, anyways, that's a consolation prize. Who am I to complain? And I'm not complaining, I'm happy about it.

Because I was thinking of not letting the prize go to waste, I bought a cheap domain so I could use it. I thought of making it a blog to post some pictures that I took (err, feeling amateur photographer with no tools). So it goes, I bought my domain from GoDaddy and claimed my free hosting. I got my account details and logged into CPanel. I then tried to install WordPress. Then there goes an error saying:

You have reached the maximum of allowed MySQL databases. Fantastico can not proceed with installations until you upgrade your account or reduce the number of used databases (for example by uninstalling a script).

Boinks, how stupid of me to assume at first that WP needs more than 1 Database. ~~That's only one MySQL Database and WordPress needs more!!!~~ Okay, I then tried Joomla and Drupal. ~~To no avail, that 1 MySQL Database is so insufficient.~~ My bad if I once thought that these CMS's need more than one DB. They only need one though and I am still in the process of finding if Fantastico Deluxe (installer) is at fault for the DB error. My bad.

Where am I now? Oh yes I did win some free web hosting but I can't use it and I have no plans of upgrading the plan. So I'll let it sleep for one year before the plan expires. And as for my domain. Sleep too. Sigh. Any suggestions what to do with both?! Remember, 100MB and 1 MySQL DB.

Now I'm in the process of manually installing WordPress. An update soon.

Anyways, this has been a good experience. So I encourage everyone to join blog contests as often as you can. Thanks to InkAPoint and BizzHost anyways. You guys rock!