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Banner free web hosting. 25 MB of space. 1 Gig of monthly transfer. Unlimited FTP, frontpage extensions. Support for CGI, PHP, MySQL, and much more. Control panel resembles the ones provided with full paid hosting at other places. You can set up subdomains. Custom 404. The list just goes on and on. They charge a one-time $49.95 set-up fee, and that's it; no other fees, no monthly fees.

Mister.net

If you don't need php, mysql, and all the other tech goodies offered by freehostingweb, Mr. Net has a nice free hosting deal that includes cgi-bin and unlimited hits. It's $29.00 to transfer an existing domain name or register a new domain name and have it hosted here for free. FREE Lifetime Hosting Features include: True Domain www.YourName.com (works with or without the www), Web Based Site Control Panel, No Banner Ads or Pop-ups, Accept Credit Cards Worldwide, Free E-Commerce/Shopping Cart, Free Web Design Software, 20 MB Disk Space, Personal CGI-Bin, Mailing Lists, FrontPage 2000 Extensions. No Set Up Fees. No Monthly Fees. $950 Value Yours For Only $29.00. Plus Site summary and monitoring. Traffic reports. Services Manager Apache, Mailing list, Mail, FTP, User manager, File manager, Backup/restore manager, Scripts / CGI installer, Detailed Site Stats.You Save Over $900, Year After Year.

DotEasy

Banner free web space for life. 20 MB, 1GIG monthly transfer, unlimited e-mail, unlimited FTP, frontpage extensions. CGI, etc., available for moderate fees paid in 6-month blocks. I've checked out some of their sample sites and their server seems to be pretty fast. They charge a one-time $35 set-up fee unless you register your domain through them, in which case you register a domain name for $25 per year and have it hosted on their servers for free. This is true domain hosting; your site can be accessed using the domain name or by adding the www prefix.

1AFM Free Hosting

The web space allotment is 100 megs. Full FTP, Frontpage extensions (for paid users), or browser upload. Uploaded pages can be edited online. Choice of pop-up ads or banner ads at top of each page. The servers are run by the former owners of 50megs.com before it got sold to About for oodles of dough, so it's dependable. This also is totally true domain hosting; your site can be accessed by the domain name only, or with the www prefix. Cobranded by 0catch but be sure to sign up under 1AFM.com because they have better tools available, including a directory listing which provides a guaranteed external link to your site. The drawback is that there is a 20MB daily bandwidth limit, so whether or not this will work out for you depends upon your file sizes and the number of hits you get: 20MB is about 200 hits a day at 50K per visit (two 25K page views per visitor). So it will comfortably handle 50-100 hits per day, after about 150 you could run into bandwidth problems - all that happens is the internal pages can't be viewed until the following midnite (the main page stays accessible throughout). This an excellent place to set up doorway domains since you can sign up for multiple free accounts using the same email address.

WebProvider

Includes 10 MB if space, domain parking, frontpage extensions, cgi-center. I tried to set up a site here but had problems which I suspect were related to my being a Mac user. I expect Windows users would have more luck. I checked out some of their sites and they seem to load pretty fast. I'm not sure at this time whether your site can be accessed without the www prefix .The ad banner is pop-up with an option to switch to a standard banner.

FreeServers

12 megs of space. Fairly reliable and fast servers. This is a true domain and can be accessed at YourName.com or with the www subdomain. An ugly banner ad appears at the top of each page, which can be removed for a fee of about $6 a month. No FTP for free accounts. The online editor totally sucks. There is an ugly java banner scrawled across the top of every page, plus two full-size pop-ups on the first page view and one full size pop-up on the next three page views thereafter. This really isn't even hosting at this point. Royally sucks. On a 1 to 10 scale this gets a 2 or a 3.

FreeWebSites

50 Megs, Full ftp, unlimted e-mail addresses, and many other goodies to boot.
Top banner ad plus a search box across the top of each page. There have been some server problems like not being able to upload files, and the server goes down more often than I'd like, but they've done an upgrade recently and things seem much better. However, I had a couple of sites there that recently disappeared with no expanation. Signing up is instantaneous. There's an clunky online editor for your main directory which is convenient if you change small bits of content (ie: affiliate links) a lot. This is totally true domain hosting; your site can be accessed by the domain name only, or with the www prefix. They've had a lot of problems over time. Sometimes, their servers are just completely down. Then one time all the sites got wiped out and had to be re-uploaded. I had a couple of sites here that suddenly disappeared with a notice that I had violated their policies, when I guarantee you I didn't. On a scale of 1 to 10, they get about a 5 or so these days.

Portland

Your domain will only be accessible with the www prefix included. Also there are about 3 days of downtime for your site when you change the DNS settings. The servers are just slow. It's banner-free; however, there is a 100 meg bandwidth limit per month and if you go over they charge you $100 per year (even the smallest site will likely exceed 100MB transfer in a month, since they count FTP uploading in the number). Plus they charge a fee to change DNS to their servers to begin with.

HyperMart

50 megs of space, 500 megs of monthly traffic (users are charged if this is exceeded, and a credit card is required to sign up for free hosting to be charged in this event), full FTP access, fast loading, reliable, tons of add-ons, extras and tools. No top banner ads, annoying large pop-ups instead; two on the first page and one on each page thereafter. What truly sets hypermart apart is that they offer full unlimited cgi. Even though they have unlimited cgi, they have strict disk and traffic limits. The fees for exceeding bandwidth are fairly reasonable, less than the going rates for most other hosts. The pop-ups totally suck.

NetFirms
25 megs of space, monthly traffic allowance not clear. Full FTP access, no online editor. Top banner ads that include a text link that says hosted by NetFirms plus annoying large pop-ups and pop-downs; none on the first page and two on each page thereafter. CGiI/Perl support. Limited tools. Like Hypermart, the pop-ups are numerous, annoying, and they totally suck.

MicroWorld
50 megs. $30 set-up fee (or $30 for 6 months paid hosting). I haven't personally tried this one, but wanted to make you are of it.

Spewey
50 megs. $10 set-up fee. I haven't personally tried this one, but wanted to make you are of it.

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