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- Banners? This column will now sometimes have the type of banner ads. Types are: inline: on your webpage at the top or bottom; popup: pops up over your webpage, you must manually click your browser to see your page again; popunder: pops under your main browser window so you don't have to switch back to your site.
- MB/Month
Transfer amount per month. U=unlimited, other numbers are in MB. Blank means I don't know the limit.
- Connect/tries
This is how many times I actually connected to the site wieth a browser divided by the number of tries. It is only of light interest, since there are many factors that can explain why I could not reach a server on a certain day.
Green background = Editor's Pick. (Background may not be visible in IE.)
- Extras
| Cost/mo | Banners? | FTP? | MB space | MB/ month | Connect/ tries | Extras | |
| 0catch.com (zero Catch) www.you.0catch.com support@0catch.com | $0 | Y inline | Y | 100MB | 3000 | 1/1 | MB, CTR, GB, free stats and site tools |
| 150m.com www.you.150m.com | $0/ $6.95 | Y/N | Y | 100MB | 20MB/day | Email, Chat, IM, CTR | |
| 20m.com | $0 | Y | Y | 20MB | 512MB | Site builder, statistics | |
| Bravenet
Paid version is $69.50/year with no daily limit, 3GB/month transfer, no ads. More features: Financial tickers, affiliate program, utils to create and promote your site, much more. | $0 | Y inline | Y | 100MB | 600MB/month 20mb/day | GB, Chat, MB, hit counter, mini polls, users login to your site. | |
| Crashhouse.com
Aug 2002. Does not seem to be working yet. | $0 | Y | 20MB | U | PHP | ||
| DK3.com | $0 | YES | YES | U | WAP, PHP, Perl, SSI, Mysql. | ||
| Dreamwater
Max file size 200k. | $0/ $6.50 | N | 50MB | U | Free GB, chat board, form email, templates, subdomain (like yourname.dreamwater.com), SS. | ||
| ESmartStart
Plus templates, html file uploads, web-based email account. No banners for $4.99/mo. | $0/4.99 | Y/N | Y | 20MB | U | SS, MB | |
| Fateback
File size limited to 300k. | $0 | Y | Y | 60MB | U | Free POP email. | |
| Freehomepage yourname.freehomepage.com Could not find contact email. (Associated with About.com) | $0 | Y | N | 12 | 500MB | 1/1 | CTR, GB, form email, site copier, more. |
| Freeservers yourname.freeservers.com | $0 | Y | 12MB | 512MB | 1/1 | GB, CTR, form email, website tools. | |
| Free sites network
Host your domain for free. Free subdomains. Free web-based email. It will display adult ads. | $0 | Y | U | U | |||
| Freewebz www.freewebz.com/ yourname techsupport@freewebz.com You can upload a zip file of a whole web site and unzip it on their server. | $0 | N | Y | 100 | 500MB | 1/1 | Chat, MB, graphics library, CTR, search, Form Builder, Form Mailer, CGI, Perl. Fast server. |
| Host Ultra
Hosts domains and subdomains. Allowed files: .html .htm .txt .jpg .jpeg .gif .mpg .mpeg .avi .mp3 .wav .swf .zip .cab .js .exe. Free file hosting: 35mb.com: no bandwidth limit, no filesize limit, FTP. | $0 or $5/mo | Y | popup or banner | U | U | PHP, CGI, Mysql | |
| Internet Trash
Also publish via email. Their page says no ads. Third-party database says they show ads. Homepage mover wizard. Since 1998. (Jul 2002: people are complaining that IT has abandoned the site. No new users accepted. FTP doesn't work.) | $0 | n | Y | 20MB | POP, email, MB, forum. Server a little slow, but ok. | ||
| Lunarpages
For free trial: filesize limited to 250k. | $0 | popunder | Y | 50MB | Domain hosting, SSI, CTR, Form email, GB. | ||
| Marhost
Website stalled for me using Mozilla. Couldn't get past the first page. Jul 2002: This site appears dead. | $0 | N | U | U | |||
| Microworld www.yourname.microworld.com You must own a domain first. | $0 | N | Y | 50 | U | Unlimited email aliases, web site stats. | |
| MSN.com
| $0 | popup | Y | 12MB | CTR, GB. | ||
| Netcolony www.netcolony.com/ category/yourname Activity on message boards is few and far between. Hmm... | $0 | Y | N | 25MB | U | Email, GB, MB | |
| Netscape
One positive thing here is they will probably stay in business longer than the other free hosts. Can't upload a modified file without deleting the old one first. | $0 | inline | Y | 20MB | CTR | ||
| SDF
Daily bandwidth limit is 10mb. | $0 | none | Y | 20MB | 10mb/day 300mb/mo | ||
| Spaceports.com www.spaceports.com/ ~yourname/ A little slow. If you don't pay $20/yr you get a popup asking you if you want to make this your home page, every time. | $0 | inline | Y | 20/ Unlimited | 5GB | 2/2 | Income from banner click throughs. Own CGI-BIN, free PHP and Mysql. |
| Topcities.com
you.topcities.com support@topcities.com Some complain their free accounts disappear every few weeks. | $0 | Y You choose inline or popup | Y | 150MB | 2/2 | GB, MB, SS, Form mail, CTR, fast server | |
| Web1000 | $0 | n | |||||
| Yahoo/Geocities www.geocities.com/~yourname/ | $0 | Y | n | 15MB | 3GB | ||
| Brinkster.com
| $0 | n | n | 30MB | 500MB | mysql. They also run a Codebank. No email on free account. | |
| Netfirms.com
Filesize limited to 256k. | $0 | Y | Y popup or banner | 25MB | 1000MB | Upload via FTP only. Frontpage, full CGI (Perl), | |
| Easyspace.com
yourname.members.easyspace.com File size limited to 1.5mb. | $0 | Y | Y | 25MB | 1000MB | ||
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| Cost/mo | Banners? | FTP? | MB space | MB/ month | Connect/ tries | Extras | |
| Doteasy www.yourname.com You must register your own domain for $15 plus $25 per year, or transfer an existing domain for $35 one time fee. | $25/yr | N | Y | 20MB | U | ||
| Perpetual hosting
Other plans available. | $5 | NO | YES | 100MB | 1000MB | Free PHP4, CGI, Perl5, Mysql, Flash, Shockwave, Server side includes. | |
| Ipowerweb | $7.95 | N | Y | 60 | |||
| Powweb.com
Frontpage extensions, SSL, Mysql, PHP4. Free setup. | $7.77 | 200MB | 12GB |
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