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If the information below is incorrect, if you have comments about any of the Providers, or if you find new Providers who you think should be included, please send a message to Dr. Shirley
Things to consider when choosing a hosting service
- How much space are you allowed
- How stable is the Site - is it often inaccessible, does it go down frequently, is it difficult to log into, does it delete your site if you do not edit it frequently.
- Does it have FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for sending files to the site
- Does it have an on-site editor
- How large a file can you upload
- Is there a band-width restriction
- Does it give your site a short URL or a long, cumbersome one
- What sort of files can you have on the site
- Does it allow you to run CGI scripts
- What extras does it have (guest-book, forms, page statistics, - what is important to you?)
- How does it handle advertising - banners, pop-ups, whatever
- How easy is it to use
- If you want to advertise, or have any commercial pages - are they allowed on that site?
Providers (Hosting services) sometimes change their terms and conditions, particularly the size of the site, or even switch over from free to pay-based accounts with very little warning.
Some providers do not give a clear indication of what they provide for free, and what is only part of a paid package, until you sign up with them.
When checking out a hosting service, I often use a couple of sets of prepared Web Pages, which are ready to FTP to any site which has a URL either of the type http://www.provider.com/~mysite/pages.html or http://mysite.provider.com/pages.html
Providers which give you a long and complicated URL are usually rather clunky
If the information below is incorrect, if you have comments about any of the Providers, or if you find new Providers whom you think should be included, please send a message to Dr. Shirley
List of free Web Site Providers
- #1 Colony - 50 MB
- 00server - I was unable to sign up
- 0 Cost Host, 25 MB, site creation tools.
- 20 Free Web Pages
- 20m.com - 20 MB
- 50Megs.com - 50 MB
- 150m.com - 50MB
- Above World - 25MB
- Angelfire - 20 MB
- or this link : Angelfire - 20 MB
- Batcave Network, 1000 MB
- Biz.ly, 50 MB
- eSeeHosting, 20 MB
- Exactpages.com, 100 MB, part of the 0-Catch group.
I used to have a paid account with 0-Catch, but I moved from them because the site went down for long periods so often - FanSpace Free Web Sites - part of the 00server group
- Free City Web Pages - not accepting new accounts
- Freeservers.com - 50 MB
- Free Virtual Servers, 100 MB, based in England
- Free Webpages
- FreeWebSiteHosting.com - 50MB
- Free Web Space Inc. - 100 MB
- MySiteInc.com
- NewbieSite.com - 100 MB
- Nyx - appears to be for Unix
- pSend - 20 MB
- Stormloader.com
- Tripod - 20 MB, very stable site
- Web-Free-Hosting - 1000 MB
- WebHostingForFree - 20 MB
- WebNode - European
- Webspawner - 3 pages
- WebStarts
- WeCare - non-profit organizations
- Worldbreak.com - 50 MB
- Webs.com
Other lists of free Web Page Hosts
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