Hi Shammus,
I have two domains hosted by 000webost.com for years and haven't had the trouble you mentioned.
http://jsgalleries.net/
http://simmonslake.net/brandon.htm
I'm just changing a few things on the first one right now. The second one is one I'm setting up for my coin club. I'm using my local community domain as a temporary site. Our club is a member of the American Numismatic Association and they offer hosting and a URL associate domain. They will be sending me an FTP program to transfer my files onto their web site.
Let me know if I can help.
Jerry