Free webhosting??

mel123

anyone know of anyone? i used yahoo a few years ago when i was in college but these dont seem to do it anymore.

p.s cant post a thread in the webhosting section

daymobrew

mel123 wrote:

anyone know of anyone? i used yahoo a few years ago when i was in college but these dont seem to do it anymore.

Yahoo! owns GeoCities which provides free hosting. It is advertising sponsored and you don't get any PHP/CGI/MySQL as it is aimed as Joe Soap.

Look at the Hosting Links sticky (from the Web Hosting forum). For example, it says that Tripod.co.uk is free and has PHP support.

Dmtiling

The best free host I have used is www.awardspace.com

They have php,mysql, perl and loads more. Also it is ad free. But if you want a good host just pay for one. It is worth it in the end and you get a much better service. Web hosting dosn't cost that much anyway.

Try www.awardspace.com

**Timbuk2**

www.frihost.com

They have Linux servers and you can use php. You have a control panel, DirectAdmin. You can use their subdomain that they give you <yourname>.frih.net or you can add your own that you might have bought with a site say www.eurodns.com or you can have both

You can have unlimited emails and unlimited subdomains. There is also lots of other things you can do like run a script every x amount of time...

But there is one small price you have to pay. You must be active on there forums (maybe posting once every two weeks or something). But that is a very small price to pay for such great hosting

Check them out!!

steve-hosting36

'real' hosting is so cost effective these days (from as little as 3 or 4 euro per month) that the point of free hosting isn't as relevant these days./

mneylon

steve-hosting36 wrote:

'real' hosting is so cost effective these days (from as little as 3 or 4 euro per month) that the point of free hosting isn't as relevant these days./

I'd have to agree.

rogue-entity

steve, blacknight, of course you are going to say that "real" hosting is cost effective, you both work for/own hosting companies. Hosting is your bread and butter . But in fairness "real" hosting has gotten a lot cheaper then it was, for proper hosting with good uptime and the like, 10-20Eur/month is not much really and if you want to do the job proper, "real" hosting is the way to go.

The only problem with paying for hosting is that a lot of companies will only deal with credit cards which means that people who are under 18 and cant borrow there parents cards are left out in the cold. That is the reason why I dont use "real" hosting myself.

And besides, the OP was looking for free hosting so as cheap as your services are he/she probably cant or wont pay for them.

OP, Xylene also provides free web hosting, with no advertisments. All they ask is that you spread the word and that if you can, donate a server to them (basicly you run a webserver from your home and let xylene use it).
If you are interested, drop me a PM.

steve-hosting36

Well, we also accept Laser, Wire transfer, cheques, drafts, postal orders and cash

mneylon

The only thing we don't accept is cash

mel123

thanks guys for all ur replies...guess what ill be doing for the weekend!!
i dont want a hi-tech type website or anything like that, so i figure whats the point in paying for hosting, even if it is only a small amount of money a month, it all adds up, and better in my pocket and all of that

DonkeyStyle \o/

blacknight wrote:

The only thing we don't accept is cash

This is true, their Enterprise Hosting package only costs two handjobs and a quarter ounce of hash.