[Chip Before PCs]

Hey, I'm sure this helps but I've been able to "manually run cron" from within Drupal the one thing I've noted (probably because I don't have much content) is in Search Settings to set "Number of items to index per cron run" to as low a number as possible (i.e. 10). From there if you click on "cron maintenance task" which takes you to Status Report and scroll down to Cron Maintenance Task just below the heading there is a link "Run Cron Manually" when I click on it, it comes back as "Cron Ran Successfully"

What this tells me is that 000webhost has not done anything to actually block the php script from running... but there maybe an issue with running it automatically?!

Hope this helps...

Chip