I am looking to do a website for a student organization I am in, and are looking for the best free hosting company for it. the site will be pretty basic; mainly text, a few graphics, some pictures and a few embedded videos. Let me know what free hosting companies are the best for this type of website.
So I suggest a search on Google for "free web hosting" - try to find one with 200MB+ of space, little advertising (if advertising, make sure it's clean), some guaranteed uptime, and FTP access.
~Sovereign
Free hosting will make your sites load very slow because there are thousands of sites hosted on one server. Free hosting has limited bandwidth, disk space and php features. And no support. I suggest you try out cheap but quality web hosting like Hostgator. You can try them out for free if you use Hostgator coupon during the order. You can find the latest coupons at: *** Good luck! There are no free lunches.
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No links to this web site anymore... you already had three other posts with that link back. It's spamming.
Albeit paid hosting is definitely good, but sometime free hosting is meant for some people who want to try out web designing and website building. Not everyone is willing to fork out the money yet perhaps.
I think some free hosting does have good quality. Of cause you have to bear with the cons jerryobri mentioned up there. Some of the good free host include 000WebHost.com, Jumpline.com and Wordpress.
Zymic and Hostrator are two options I found on http://www.thefreehosts.com that have php mysql and no advertisements forced on your site.
Free hosting is not really that reliable. You also have to deal with advertisements. If you are on a budget I would go with cheap web hosting such as <a href="http://www.hostmonster.com/track/andrenym00/text1">http://hostmonster.com</a>. I believe it's 5.95 a month which is not that bad and they use cpanel.
Their are free hosts without ads. I have to agree with you that using a free host is a risky idea if you are going to be running a website that is important to you for business or something else. But if you are just starting out and want to play around a free host might be a good idea. Here is an article about deciding on free or paid hosting: http://hostingplanrebates.com/free_or_paid_web_hosting.aspx When I first started out I used free hosting but I didn't have much traffic and didn't use intensive scripts. Now I use lunarpages, hostgator, hostmonster, and ix.
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