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Web Site Hosting Services
If you've been on the Web very long, you may be
wondering what is involved in starting your own Web
site. Well, you've come to the right place. Below,
we list services that will give you free hosting for
your Web site. In many cases, these services will
help you publish a Web site even if you have no
experience in writing HTML (the easy-to-learn coding
language that is used to create Web pages). |
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Tripod
The second largest free Web page service (after
Yahoo! GeoCities), Tripod gives its
members a choice between pop-up ads and embedded
ads. You get 20 megabytes of space for your site
at this service, which now has over 4 million
members and which is owned by search portal
Lycos. Here, you have two options: if
you're a beginner, you can use the "Quickpage"
option if you want Tripod to write your page's
coding. If you know HTML coding, you can do it
yourself through the "Custom" option.
- Tripod offers
support for
Microsoft FrontPage extensions,
which means that if you own this commercial
Web authoring package, you have more
flexibility in what you can do with your
site, (such as the ability to easily add
text searches). However, we've had a number
of complaints that Tripod's FrontPage server
is slow and buggy.
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Yahoo! GeoCities
A part of search portal Yahoo's empire,
GeoCities is the Web's largest free space
provider, with over 5 million "Homesteaders." An
ad-supported service, GeoCities offers you 15
megabytes of space and 3 gigabytes of data
transfer (bandwidth) per month. You start out by
staking your claim in a GeoCities "neighborhood"
that offers pages with similar themes to yours.
You submit an application and are given a
password for use in creating your Web site. You
may then use the "Yahoo! PageBuilder" utility
here to create your home page.
- Like many Web
hosters, Yahoo! GeoCities is heavily
promoting its premium commercial services
these days. However, free hosting is still
available here (just look for the "get
started with a free GeoCities home page"
text link).
- GeoCities has
eliminated the problem of its
once-cumbersome, lengthy URLs via an
improved naming scheme, which means that you
can have a shorter URL, such as
http://www.geocities.com/prince_nasirjaved/.
- Some of our
visitors report periodic access woes here. A
number of complaints have also been posted
on
Yahoo! GeoCities' message boards
lately about vanishing pages. We've also had
complaints that support is difficult to
obtain. However, other visitors report that
assistance is readily available through the
service's "Community Leaders," who may be
reached via E-mail or
ICQ.
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SRP Web
This free Web hosting service offers five megs
of space, along with FTP access, and doesn't
pester your visitors with banner ads or popups.
To access the free hosting service here, click
the "free sign up" link near the top of the
page.
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United.Net.kg
(Note: this site has
temporarily halted accepting new free hosting
accounts). A free Web hosting service
that gives you 15 megs of space (and, in a
refreshing change of pace, does not place ads on
your pages). United.Net.kg also offers a number
of useful features, including FTP uploads, full
CGI access, SSI support, PHP4 support, 2-meg
MySQL access, stats and more.
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100MegsFree.com
(This service has
temporarily halted accepting applications to its
free hosting service). A fully featured
Web hoster that offers a generous 100 megabytes
of space. You can either upload your existing
site to this service or create a new site with
their online templates. They also offer features
like FTP access, form mail, a forum, guestbook,
free E-mail support and more.
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Internet Trash
(Note: this service is no
longer offering free hosting). Unlike
many Web host providers, which place
restrictions on content, these guys say they
welcome offensive, tasteless, useless, trashy,
crude, rude, lewd, etc. content. (However, no
adult content is allowed). Here, you get 20
megabytes of space and FTP access.
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ZyWeb
(Note: this service is no
longer free, but a 30-day trial is available).
A major, speedy Web hoster and free graphics
provider, Zy.com offers users a trial account
that gives you four Web pages, with 10 megabytes
of storage space, and a choice of up to 10
template design styles. It's fairly easy to
create professional-looking pages here and they
offer a nice variety of graphics for use on your
pages. Technical support
here is above average, our visitors report.
(Note: they place ad banners on all user's
pages).
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Angelfire
A major free Web space provider that is owned by
search portal
Lycos, Angelfire offers 20 megabytes of
space and supports
FrontPage extensions. You may advertise
your business here, but you may not have paid
advertising banners on your page. Angelfire
offers lots of helpful advice for getting you up
and running with your own Web site, even if
you're new to Web site authoring.
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WebSpawner
WebSpawner is a free online Web authoring system
that lets you design and develop customized Web
pages in a matter of minutes - without having to
learn HTML.
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ProHosting
This free Web space provider offers a generous
package. Here, you get 50 megs of Web space, an
FTP account and CGI access. ProHosting also
offers an online site creation utility and
customer support via E-mail.
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MujWEB
A Czech free Web page provider that offers 250
kilobytes of space.
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PI-Web
A Danish free Web space provider. They provide
300 kilobytes of space, with no CGI. You must
place their banner on your index page. Your URL
here will be http://www.YOUR-NAME.person.dk.
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MultiMania
This French free Web hoster offers 12 megs of
space for your personal or commercial site. FTP
access is available. A pop-up banner is
displayed every 30 minutes on your pages. Tech
support is provided through newsgroups.
After you've been here a year, they'll increase
your free space to 20 megs.
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TerraVista
This service is hosting free Web pages for
Portuguese-speaking people across the world. It
is sponsored by the Portuguese Ministry of
Culture. Users are allowed up to seven megs of
space and file uploading can be done either via
FTP or from your browser. No porn allowed.
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TacoNet
A free Web space provider from Taiwan. They
provide you with 6 megs of Web space and free
POP3 E-mail. You also get free clip art and CGI
scripts (which they provide). Note: you must put
their logo on your page.
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