This crops up time and again, yes a lot of free hosts don't work with phpvms, but that does n ot mean they all dont. Without information as to what the host is providing for free you can't just paint it with one brush. Have you checked your firewall have you put in the address correctly? Check to see what the host has activated and what it doesn't have. Not everyone is in the position to go striaight into paid hosting as they may not have money to get it. I know when i started MVA my VA first, i did not have money to get hosting, as I was still in school, had no job. So instead of jumping down someones throat about them having free hosting, try to help them. And sorry but it does come accross that if they have free hosts they are irrelevant. No matter how good your intentions are.