Usually free hosting is used for getting more knowledgeable and skills.

well, the main thing, which every one should be aware of.... If your website get down in free hosting, you cant force him to reup.....

I currently use serversfree.com which is ok. Some customers find the site down here an there but that doesn't matter to me right now because I'm beta testing market interest

i think inavit [dot] .com is good for asp.net

Back in the day I tried Geocities. It was godawful slow. It was my impression that if you had free web hosting and your site started developing lots of hits the hosting service would slow down to try to suck you into a pay per service plan (IMHO). You get what you pay for or what you don't.

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There are companies that have promotions for free hosting, but I do not recommend it. You get what you pay for basically. I would suggest to pay a bit more for better results.

there is no profit in free hosting, go for paid hosting.

Yes, There are a lot of free webhosting sites. But Paid hosting is much better than free hosting in most occasions

If you have hardly any visitors, then yes. But if you are going to be using anything more than a little bit of bandwidth then I have not come across any.

It's pretty logical, it isn't a charity but a business. If a company is offering you something for free, then it has already found ways of getting an ROI. It may be in terms of monetary benefits or marketing (where they put ads on your site). Expecting reliability and support would ideally depend upon the company who's offering it.

If you are really keen choosing a host, visit the marketplace section of this forum here. You should be able to find a number of hosts that might please you with their offerings. All the best!

Don't go for free hosting. Once they find that your website is getting many visitors they suspend the account and wait for you to upgrade the account.
Instead you can get good hosting at low price.

Free hosting is still popular nowadays but they are rather slow and there is no support.

Well mate its My Personal Experience that please Do not go to free Webhosting bcoz we do not know when they Suspend our account or Terminate your account without informing and you and without giving your Site Back up if you do not have back up of your site your just finished. so its better to buy cheap shared hosting. now day Shared hosting is very cheap its just $1USD.

Originally Posted by ldcdc

... Stuff like Blogger, Facebook and even Tweeter are replacing the old freely hosted websites that everyday people used to build...

There are at least a dozen good free sites where you can just log in and start creating a company website or a blog.

One good example used to be Jigsy, but now it's not so good!

They have just upgraded their software and added some nice new features... and also some awful bugs. Fortunately I had only a minor test website there!

Why is their service free? Because your website is locked into their proprietary software and their sub-domain name. If your site becomes successful, you will eventually be forced into upgrading to their paid4 option!

Originally Posted by Plexihost

... most free services attract abusers...

Free webhosts live in hope that their users will eventually upgrade to their paid4 service. At one free webhost where I used to help out on the forum, my estimate was that 97%+ of free users were teenagers and/or from the third-world, and would never, ever, pay for anything.

Free webhosts let people join without proof of identity, and spammers, scammers, and hackers will happily join under fake names and then ruin the service for other users.


There are still a very few free webhosts who do not force ads on your site. But you can expect slow servers and occasional downtime... And always beware that free hosts might disappear suddenly and without warning!

I won't really recommend any. I used to recommend Byethost as a good free ad-free webhost. I had several minor sites hosted there. One day, my usage passed one of their unwritten limits, and they decided to lock me out of my account unless I paid to upgrade. Yes, pay them or lose my websites! Fortunately the sites were still in test-mode, and I had full backups. Just a cautionary tale that you can't rely on "free"!