How to Find Free Web Hosting

Cheap free web hosting is hard to come by nowadays, and the hosts that are offering free space and bandwidth hardly offer you any of the support that you need; of course, you get what you pay for, right? Wrong: there is cheap free web hosting available that is both quality and – as long as you know where to look. If you are trying to get a small business of the ground, want to start a new blog, or just want cheap free web hosting to save some money in these tough economic conditions, then read on to learn what companies and features are available for little or no money, and how to find cheap or free web hosting without wasting your time:

1. Step 1

   Start a Blog With Cheap Free Web Hosting
   
   If you are looking to start a new personal journal, or you want to start a business blog to connect consumers to your company on a more intimate level, then you don't have to look too far for cheap free web hosting. There are quite a few free blog websites available that you can use to get started. Blogs are easy to manage, can be easily customized, and only take a few moments to set up. Plus, when you use a cheap, free web hosting company for your blog, visitors can sign up for a free account and leave comments, communicate with other visitors, and you can build a good rapport within the community.
   
   Below are addresses to some of the better free blog sites available on the net where you can get started:
   
   http://www.blogger.com/
   http://www.blogspot.com/
   http://www.wordpress.com/
   http://www.myblogsite.com
   http://www.sosblog.com/
   http://www.livejournal.com/
   http://www.vox.com/

2. Step 2

   Check Out Some Cheap Free Web Hosting Companies
   
   There are a few cheap free web hosting companies available that offer you the services and features you need to get your website started. Cheap free web hosting companies are able to give away a limited amount of their services either by displaying advertisements on your free website, or by earning enough revenue through paid hosting plans to cover the cost without taking a loss. Most offer the same support the paid web hosts offer – including FTP access, CGI support (including PHP and Perl), and a limited few even support MySQL for cheap free web hosting accounts. You can also score your own free sub-domain – yourname.websitename.com – so you can have a personalized domain name to share with friends and family, or an easy-to-remember URL to give to customers.
   
   To get started with cheap free web hosting plans right now, visit some of the addresses listed below to find a free web host that offers the support and features you need, and sign up now:
   
   http://www.homestead.com/
   http://www.freeservers.com/
   http://www.freeonlinehost.com/
   http://www.stormloader.com/
   http://www.webs.com/
   http://angelfire.lycos.com
   http://www.150m.com/
   http://www.t35.com/
   http://www.free-host.com/
   http://www.freewebsitehosting.com/
   
   (Yahoo! Geocities will be defunct as of October 2009, and no longer accepts new sign-ups.)

3. Step 3

   Purchase a Domain With Cheap Free Web Hosting
   
   Some hosting companies are also providing customers with cheap free web hosting plans just for purchasing a domain. Domain names are fairly cheap nowadays, with the average price around $10 (without purchasing a hosting plan or using a discount code). That means for an average of $10, you can have your very own domain name – www.yourcompany.com – along with a small hosting packing from the company you registered through for free. Since the average cost of web hosting is around $5-$10 a month, not including the domain name registration fee, that saves you about $50 to $120 a year. For just $10 a month, you can't find a better cheap free web hosting deal.
   
   Check out some of these free web hosting offers that are included with a domain name registration:
   
   http://www.doteasy.com/
   http://www.godaddy.com/
   http://www.150m.com/free-hosting.html
   http://www.freeservers.com/