Free Web Hosting

[sarahdavis]

Hello Everybody

I am fairly new to the internet, but I'm creating my own website. I would like to know if there are any reputable web hosting organisations that can publish my site. Ideally I would like to have this service for free. But if there are any decent ISPs that may offer a free service initially then charge, then that would be ok too.

Any comments welcome.

Thanks

Sarah Davis

[Buenchico]

Sarah:

If you're only looking for web space (and don't require things like support for FrontPage Extensions or statistical analysis) the easiest place to put your site is on the servers of www.webtribe.net. Signing up is a doddle (and free!) - just your name (real or false) plus your choice of username and password. You're theoretically signing up for a dial-up account + e-mail + (free) webspace but you don't have to use the bits you don't want (except for uploading your site - see below).

You can sign-up as many times as you like (so you can have multiple accounts) and I've never come across any limits on the amount of webspace you can use. Commercial sites are welcome.

The only cost in putting your website online is when you upload. This is because the webtribe ftp server only permits connection via the dial-up service. Upload speeds are fairly slow but typical phone bill charges (based on a BT line, off-peak) work out at approx �1 per 10Mb upload).

I've put all sorts of things on webtribe's servers in the past - often things which only need to be there for a short while (e.g. details of different sports or community events - that's where multiple accounts come in handy). The most recent site I put up is full of galleries of old school photos. It will not be of any interest to you and it's certainly not a good example of web design (I cobbled it together in about 15 minutes!) but it might give you a guide to how much web space you can get for about �2.50 added to your phone bill. (i.e. about 25Mb). If so, check out www.webtribe.net/~yewlandspast. (There's an e-mail link on that page if you want to ask me any questions)

Having written all of that lot, perhaps I ought to remind you that most ISP's include some webspace with both dial-up and broadband accounts. Perhaps your own ISP has already allocated some free space for you to use?

Chris

[mycatis]

This a good site, the basic package is free but I think you can pay to upgrade if you want.
http://members1.freewebs.com/
good luck

[FredKBland]

It's completely depends on what you expect from a web hosting service, as you are a beginner and your requirements are not much higher than okay otherwise you must know that free web hosting services won't provide security to your data, so its better to choose a cheap web hosting service rather than using a free web hosting.

[daric]

There is no concept like free web hosting. All these are the marketing bluff and just to get your attention. I will suggest you, do not get taped in such campaign. it would be great if you go for some reliable web hosting service rather than diverting your mind toward free hosting