Best Free Webhosts?

[Hyperion]

    I am getting ready to start designing and building my own projects and just wanted to know, who are some of the best free webhosts, so I can post my progress?

     Your help is greatly appreciated,
 
          ]-[yperion

[grafixmonkey]

I dunno bout free, but I just signed up with crazyhosting.net, they're $5 a month.  Almost free.   And then, to get your own domain name is $15 a year (so like $6.25/month total.)

250 megs storage, 5GB per month download limit, scripts, forum, ftp, shell access, and email.  Dunno how that compares to free hosting.  Hopefully I'll have a decent project site up soon.  

[SpamMe]

Not free forever, but 1and1.com's running no-obligation (no creditcard even) 3 free years of 5gb/mo 500mb php mysql etc. hosting.

[SirPoonga]

If all you have is html and pics my host is ok.  10megs of space for free and no banner ads.

[ecrespol2]

The best free host is the one you pay for.

Ok so I'm no good at comming up with Yogisms.

[SNAAAKE]

www.freewebs.com
They are pretty good.No banner or popup.
I suggest you host the pics elsewhere because freewebs is slow.

[tmasman]

free? hypermart.net <edit> They don't offer the free account anymore... sorry</edit>

It's worked for me so far...
It's 50 MB space, 500MB transfer...
But it's free!!!
I've never gone over though, so I don't know if they'd charge for that or not...



I use arishost.com for my main site though...
$30 a year for the domain registration, 30MB space, & 500 MB transfer...
No monthly fees & it works well for me.

~ tmasman

[Bomber]

Brinkster (www.brinkster.com) have a free account which also allows ASP and .Net if you are into that sort of thing.

On the down side, I did just get an email from them telling me they are going to start ads on the free sites soon  

[Hyperion]

  Thanks for all the help, I am currently in the process of checking on some of the sites you discussed.
    Does anybody know anything about 50free.com, or Illusionfxnet.com.

  Thanks,
 
    ]-[yperion

[Echo25]

Check this out, I'm signing up for this tonight:  

www.oneandone.com

3 years free

Hosted on I/O optimized own 1&1 Linux version
500 MB web space
5,000 MB/month traffic ($.99 per GB for additional traffic)
No limits on simultaneous hits/bandwidth
Protected by firewall
Continuous backups of your website
99.9% Uptime guarantee

[u_rebelscum]

Some stuff to think about if you are planning on a big site with lots of pictures, construction plans, etc.

5 gigs a month is about the best you'll get for free, but you should check if that's really throughput per month, or throughput per hour.  Sounds like 1&1 is true throughput per month; most other free sites are throughput per hour.

If you calculate it out to per hour, 5 gigs/month goes to less than 7 megs/hour.  Webpages with small images don't even come close to hitting the max, but just ten 200K images is the same as one 2meg file.  If you're serving a 2 meg file, three (and a half) people can download it before you're overloaded for that hour.  (And the 5 meg Mame binaries are only one per hour.)  When overloaded like this, the site is turned off for the rest of the hour.

With true throughput on the per month scale, your site can take grouped hits ("after work" group), as long as there is some "rest" time with few hits ("3-6am sleep" time).  However, watch out.  Don't get too popular, or else you'll get charged the extra $/gig, and it can go really high if you get /.'ed.  Sometimes you can tell them, or you are forced, so once the per month limit is hit, the site is down for the rest of the month; this can save cash in your pocket book.

You might not need to worry about all that, but a heads up. [shrug]