Free web hosting

**ncpsri** · 02-08-2010, 12:26 AM

If you want to host a personal web site then choosing a web host is an easy task. There are plenty of free hosts who will host your website for free, giving you space in a directory under their domain.

**aburi2020** · 02-28-2010, 08:09 AM

I think probably you should share all the free web hosting for us to try. I know there are a lot out there but most of it for a limited time only. Maybe you can share the one that can offer free hosting for life.

**prasanth5** · 03-31-2010, 12:55 AM

Though it is not absolutely free, towerwebsites.com can be tried for a paltry $1 a month. I tried and it was good.

**ncpsri** · 03-31-2010, 04:02 AM

The free website hosts often make money in other ways, such as putting banners, popups, or pounders ads on your free web pages. Some free web hosting companies do not put ads on your site, but require you as the webmaster to click on banners in their control panel or signup process, or just display banners in the file manager in hopes you will click them. Some lure visitors with free hosting in hopes you will upgrade and pay for advanced features. A few send you occasional emails with ads, or may even sell your email address. A new method that is becoming popular is requiring a certain number of "quality" forum posting, usually as a means of getting free content for them and thereby being able to display more ads to their website visitors.

Free web hosting is not recommended for businesses unless you can get domain hosting from an ad-free host that is very selective. Other reasons for using free hosting websites would be to learn the basics of website hosting, have a personal website with pictures of your family or whatever, a doorway page to another web site of yours, or to try scripts you have developed on different web hosting environments.

There are hundreds of free hosting web sites, as far as not having to pay any money to have your website hosted. Generally they either cost you in time, web hosting restrictions, or modifying your free web pages by adding pop ups, banners, or other adverts. When looking for free web hosting (especially on search engines), you should beware that there are also a large number of commercial web hosts that claim to offer free hosting services, but those often have a catch, such as paying an excessive amount for a domain name or other service, and therefore aren't really free. The free hosting guide below will give you some tips for finding the right free webhosting company for you.

although there are a few exceptions. If the free host is making money from banner ads or other revenue sources directly from the free hosting service, then they likely will stay in business, provided someone doesn't abuse their web hosting server with spam, hacking, etc., as often happens to new free web hosting companies with liberal signup policies. If the free host accepts just anyone, especially with an automated instant activation and it offers features such as PHP or CGI, then some users invariably try to find ways to abuse it, which can cause the free server to have a lot of downtime or the free web server to be slow. It is best if you choose a very selective free hoster which only accepts quality sites.

**mase1995** · 03-31-2010, 09:43 PM

Can you share some of the free web hosts from where we can make money????
If you can share then reply here with some free web hosts.
Because I don't think that we can make money by using the free web hosts.

**prasanth5** · 04-01-2010, 10:05 AM

Yahoo.com also gives a free website. There is host called towerwebsites.com They host you site for a paltry $1 per month.

**Fernando** · 04-07-2010, 03:34 AM

i have found byethost dot com good in providing free hosting. you have almost all facilities with byethost that a paid hosting has, only SMTP server is not provided in free plan. You can install almost every major php apps like phpbb forum, wordpress, drupal, joomla, customer support system etc in this free plan with plenty of space and bandwidth.
also byethost is introducing $1/m plan soon.

another good free hostings i have found are zymic . com and awardspace . com

**Kav47** · 04-08-2010, 02:34 AM

I agree with Bhavin on this one. My friend next door uses byethost for quite some time now and he is pretty found of the service offered. He uses it for his small business website but he never encountered any problems. Great uptime, fast and reliable service worth recommending.