I wish to start a website (actually already, kind of started it) but I need some suggestions of free hosting. I started it on Angelfire and now realize that Angelfire has this annoying pop up problem which I DON'T want. The webiste is about art. If you would like to know what I'm up to, here is the addy: www.angelfire.com/art3/internet_art I posted the address I currently have just in case you guys want to offer advise but are unsure of what you are offering your advise for. Kristta

Well Kristta, If you want to stay with free hosting, you are going to have to deal with ads. It's just a give and take sort of thing. However, as far as free goes, I tend to go with Yahoo's Geocities. I feel it is the least obnoxious of the free sites I have tried.

Attached Link: http://www.freewebs.com/anairamart/index.htm

Freewebs.com is good i use it all the time for hosting my gallery, it has no adds but you do need to place a code at the bottom of your page from freewebs, which is nto a problem at all

upto 50 megs of space and 500 megs of bandwidth for free, and no annoying banner ads! here's a link to mine to show ya what i mean

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Thank you both for replying. I'm going to go with the freewebs site because of the amount of space they offer and a few other things. I've started work on it but I've basically just got my information (much of which can be seen here) on it. It's going to be more of a multi use site than anything else.

One thing about freeware sites is that most don't allow you to FTP your files. And the amount of bandwidth is usually very limited.

Attached Link: http://www.dreamhost.com/shared/

If you get to the point where you decide that it's better to pay for a site so that you won't have those limitations Acadia mentioned, check out Dreamhost. They are really good.

My husband has decided to build a server and host our own site (I love him to death but these projects normally take a while with him considering he start laying the hardwood floor in the hall way and it's only half done). I'll use the free site for a while. Unfortunately, I'm not good at "making" things. I can do a few pretty pictures but I can never seem to come up with anything that would make a good freebie. Kristta

hehe good stuff kristta, my hubbys the same way tho im the website builder he's not lol Hon texture tiles or anything like that make for good freebies when someone wants to make a new look for a piece of clothing and they are a blast to make too :)

Attached Link: http://www.easycgi.com/web_hosting.html

If you want to go with a paid site, I recommend easycgi (the company that I use). For $7.95 a month (when paid for the entire year), you get 3000M of space (yes, that's 3 GIGABYTES) and 50G of traffic- more than enough to host popular files. :) Plus, you can use ASP, PHP, or plain HTML. But, if you're thinking about running a server from your home, make sure to think about everything: What happens when the power goes out in your home? Even if you have your server on a UPS unit, it will only be a few hours until it goes down... and your website stops working. This may not matter if you have a "little site", but if you do any kind of e-commerce, can you afford to be down at all? Personally, I recommend paying a company whose business is hosting websites: they have power backups, they install software service packs, they protect against viruses and hackers, etc. --John

I agree John. I'm running 4 servers out of my house here, and expenses are about what I expected, but much more than most people would realize. For a "reasonable" amount of bandwidth, fixed IP addressing, DNS, and "their" router. total of that is $119/month in US funds. That doesn't include the power for the web server, mail server, ftp server, 3 good UPS's 2500 VA each, and a 3 port KVM switch. Ir you are only running one site, pay someone else to put up with all those hassles. Lee