Web Hosts - Free Space
At some point, you will have to switch to paid hosting if you want a truly functional website. By then, you’ll probably have figured out how to find some decent hosts (search on Google for starters).
For others who are just starting web design or aren’t looking to really create some super web-empire, the following free hosts will probably do. These were what I used before I bought my own domain, so I hope others find them useful as well.
Free Website Hosting
1 ASP Host -Simply set up an account and you get about 100MB of free space. Back when I used it, it was one of the few hosts that put nothing on your pages, allows folder structured-site, very generous.
Domain DLX - Looks strangely like 1 ASP Host and I’ve tried them both. Well I guess you could have two accounts then if you wished.
Freewebs - Many people recommended freewebs back when I was learning. The one thing I remembered was it never really allowed you to create your own site through FTP or anything similar - just modifying templates. It was very restrictive and not something you want to stick to if you plan to get better at web-design (though for less serious users - it should be just fine).
Free Media Storage
The following may not allow websites, but they allow you to upload videos, pictures, etc to save you bandwidth on your free site if you wanted to.
Megaupload - Upload any type of file but no control over it and it gets deleted once it has no downloads for a while.
Photobucket - Very generous space and easy to use for image uploading. Lets you hotlink (embed directly) images onto your webpages or anywhere else you want to use them.
PutFile - Lets you upload multiple file types. If I remember correctly, they even allowed you to create a homepage, but it’s very limiting.
Rapidshare - Upload any type of file, but for a short duration before they’re deleted. Also very slow connection.
Last Updated Jan 04, 2009