Free Web Space and Hosting Services
Welcome to FreebieList.com's free hosting category. In this section we review those services that provide free Web space on the Internet. Before you pay through the teeth for a brand new Web site, be sure to check out our listings below. Producing a Web site is less complicated than people imagine, and with so many services available that automate the process for you, even inexperienced users can produce a site that's worthy of an audience. It may be that you'd like to set up your own blog site to record your thoughts. Alternatively, if you're particularly knowledgeable on a topic, you could do what many people do and produce a site dedicated to your specialist subject. Or perhaps you would like to showcase your photographs in an online album? Whatever your reason for wanting to start a site, the companies below are an excellent starting point for establishing yourself on the Web. If you happen to stumble across an outdated link, we'd very much appreciate it if you could report it. If you would like to suggest a site for inclusion in this category, please submit it here. Thanks for visiting and enjoy your time freebie hunting!
Blog.com
A fun, free and simplistic blog hosting service. It is easy to register at blog.com and you can be running a blog site within minutes (and you needn't have great technical knowledge). Once registered, you can customise the look and feel of your blog, add images, and begin publishing content. If you wish to expand the functionality at a later date, Blog.com allows you to easily upgrade to a commercial package.
000webhost.com
A free, donation-based Web hosting service, offering 1500MB disk space, 100GB data transfer per month, PHP and MySQL support, FTP access, and even cPanel, a "back end" where you can manage all aspects of your account. Even better, no advertisements are displayed on sites hosted here (since their funding is entirely user-donated).
700 Megs.com
This site's free Web hosting plan offers not 700 - but 1400 megs of free Web space. They also offer 7GB of data transfer, a 20MB file uploading limit, FTP and control panel access, up to 5 MySQL databases, and a free sub-domain (yourname.700megs.com). Best of all, they don't even display irritating adverts on your site's pages.
My Blog Site
This free blog hosting service from FortuneCity combines ease-of-use with advanced features for the more Web savvy. A variety of templates are available so you can easily customise the look and feel of your blog. All the most common features can be found here, including the ability to upload photographs. If you want to set up your own blog site, this is a good place to start.
Tripod
Owned by Lycos, Tripod is a popular free homepage provider and ideal for beginners who wish to build their first site. They offer 20MB free Web space, an online page creator and 1GB data transfer, which is enough for small, low traffic sites. Tripod's free services are advert supported and you may choose between pop-ups or embedded adverts when registering. Support for FrontPage extensions is also available at Tripod.
> Tripod's most recent developments include a blog and online photo album builder.
> A number of templates are offered here, allowing beginners to create a simple site in minutes.
> The Tripod UK site offers a slightly different package than its international counterpart: 1GB free Web space, PHP support, site stats, FrontPage extensions, ready made templates and a Web-based file upload manager. They also provide a number of site add-ons, including a guestbook, counter and customisable 404 error pages.
Blogger
Blogger allows you to create your own online Web log (or "blog" as it is commonly referred to). For our visitors unfamiliar with the term, blogs resemble an online diary where you can share your thoughts, stories and pictures with the rest of the world. However, the format of a blog is so versatile that you don't necessarily have to post comments about yourself. Blogger, like similar services, makes an excellent content management system and allows you to create a site on virtually any topic imaginable.
> This popular blogging service, now owned and operated by Google, also provides a number of templates, which you can use to customise the look and feel of your blog pages.
> Blogger's "Blogger Mobile" feature allows users to update their blog whilst on the move. You may post photos and text from your mobile phone, and the content will immediately be accessible to anyone browsing the blog.
StormLoader
A fast and reliable free Web space provider, offering 50MB hosting space, unmetered bandwidth, page building tools, a file manager and plenty of free help and tutorials. StormLoader also provides a form builder, which allows you to create online visitor feedback forms in an instant. The service is advert supported (with non-intrusive ads). You may choose between two Web address styles.
FortuneCity.com
FortuneCity.com offers 1000 megabytes of free Web space to all of its members and also provides a number of free Web building tools, which are easy to use for beginners, but also sophisticated enough for advanced Webmasters. Includes FTP access, sub-domain (you.fortunecity.com), a blog builder, 3GB data transfer. FortuneCity.com is advertisement supported by pop-up and banner advertisements.
Note: FortuneCity.com has increased its disk quota from 100MB to 1GB.
Free Web Space Inc
Amongst commercial services, Free Web Space Inc provides a free package with 150MB free Web space, 1.2GB monthly data transfer and FTP access. This service is advert supported and places banner and pop-up adverts on your pages, although they aren't quite as obtrusive as some other free hosting providers. The service is ideal for small and personal sites.
Angelfire
Here's another veteran free Web page provider. Angelfire provides users with 20MB of storage and has plenty goodies to help you announce your Internet home to the world, including online site building tools. FreebieList.com has had reports that this service is quite reliable as far as free Web hosts go. Angelfire is advert supported (they insert a banner at the top and bottom of hosted pages).
> Angelfire now provides a "blog builder" tool that allows you to create an online blog site in minutes.
> Inexperienced users will find their selection of free site templates and clipart an ideal starting point. The 20MB storage space provided is not a huge amount, but is enough for most small, personal sites.
Freeservers.com
Freeservers.com offers short, easy to remember sub-domains and e-mail accounts, such as "yoursite.freeservers.com", "yoursite.8m.com", "yourname.freehosting.net" (and many more besides). They provide 50MB of free Web space, e-mail forwarding and also various page building tools that are ideal for new Webmasters without sufficient technical knowledge. There is a data transfer limit of 1GB and files are limited to 0.25MB in size.
> This service is ad-supported with both banner and pop-up adverts. Freeservers.com no longer offers direct FTP access, although you may manage and upload files via their online file manager.
> If you enjoy having a short sub-domain Web address and require an upgraded service, Freeservers.com offers a number of ad-free commercial packages for a minimal monthly fee.
Doteasy
If you already own a domain name and wish it to be hosted for free, then Doteasy's free hosting package is ideal. They provide 100MB disk storage space, a 1GB monthly data transfer limit, 10 free e-mail accounts, free customer service and also a Web site designing tool that's great for beginners unfamiliar with HTML and Web site creation software.
Blockstar.com
A free Web site creation and hosting service that allows users to create blogs, photo galleries, or even their own site, without having to possess any Web site development skills. Blockstar's online site building software lets users design pages to their exact specification. By dividing a page into blocks and then adding content to each block, you can publish online.
Bravenet Free Web Space
Bravenet's free Web hosting package provides 50MB storage space, a 1.5GB monthly data transfer limit along with FTP access via your Web browser. Please note that this service is supported by advertisements. Bravenet also provide a truckload of other free Webmaster tools, including free guestbooks, free hit counter services, free chat rooms, mailing lists, polls, etc.
RedRival.com
Amongst other "paid" packages, RedRival.com offers a free service, providing 20MB of free Web space, SSI/XSSI scripting, an e-mail address and FTP access. The "free" package offered here is advertisement supported and uses various forms of adverts, such as banners, pop-ups, etc. They also offer a "browser upload" facility as an alternative to FTP.