Free Web Hosting Sites
-- by NOWAYWINS and AngelPie_Mouse
One of the problems we all face is online file storage. In clubs, it is a matter of a space we can customize for presentation of our clubs, FAQs, and documents that we want our members to be able to access. In groups, it is a matter of being able to moderate our important club documents while still having certain documents available to guests and visitors, especially as the Home graphics and other customization features are just plain not accessible unless we leave our Files moderation open to all. What is needed is Free Web Hosting.
There are many places on the Internet that allow you to create homepages or store files and photos online for free. You can use them in school or business projects, accessing them from home, office, and school because they are online--that is: with a browser and password you can work anywhere. You can use them to share files with others around the world, to back up address books, or store larger files generated on applications like Excel. You use them to free up space in your regular homepage or, more important to Groups, to provide a secure access to files for customization of your moderator message.
Below we have listed a few places with some notes to help you get started. We have divided them according to formats (webpage, file storage, photo storage). And, we have added some notes from their ad blurbs, noted their affiliations, offered an idea concerning the Free URL and domain handling, and, our personal observations having used many of them.
How Free is free? We're not sure what file and photo space providers get out of this, but we do know what web page hosts do. Most will require a banner ad to pay for the cost of the space. Some will provide this as a pop-up that goes away like Yahoo! Geocities, some as a separate window that has to be manually closed like Tripod, some put it on the top of the page automatically, some discretely tack it on at the bottom, and some few do not require one at all.
As for reliability...it is the Internet.
Angelfire Communications
50 MB of space! Lycos Network. Personalized URLs! Free online building tools! (Personal note: as a somewhat experienced page designer, I have always found Angelfire to be a little confusing and ungainly in comparison to Yahoo! Geocities. Your experience may differ.) [http://www.angelfire.com]- FirstStepSite
Provides a free 3-page web site hosting in exchange for a small graphic. Note: we're sure why the limitation on the number of pages. While they claim the ability to upload personal graphics, they do not offer any suggestion concerning how much actual storage space you have on site. [http://www.firststepsite.com] - F2S
F2S = Freedom to Surf. Offers 20 Mbytes of web space, Frontpage 2000 support, free URL address = www.YOURNAME.f2s.com, full domain registration. Whether you're an individual or a company the service is FREE and does not require adverts or other sponsorship information to be displayed on your site. Affiliated with LINX (London Internet Exchange) and a member of the European Backbone (Ebone) and Reseaux IP Europeens(RIPE), and a partner with Netscape. [http://www.f2s.com] - Free Web Space
20MB of free webspace for your files! Free subdomain: anything.freewebspace.com, FTP uploading, Free web-based email account, Site copier utility to easily move your site, Web-based file manager, Website promotion and enhancement Tools, Unlimited bandwidth and page hits! Offers free web hosting with ftp site access, webpage building tools, and a personal email account. [http://www.freewebspace.com] - Free Web Space Inc.
FREE 20MB in exchange for banner display. Free URL = YOURNAME.fws1.com Also offers domain names, design tools, and email accounts for personal and business use. [http://www.free-web-space-inc.com] - Freeyellow.com
50MB of webspace in exchange for advertising banner. Additional webspace available at 2.50 per 10MB per month. Full support at 75MB/$10 per month. Affiliated with InfoSpace. Free URL = http://username.freeyellow.com, allows registration of domain through Tucows. [http://www.freeyellow.com/] - The Globe
Free 25 MB, with FTP upload for multiple files, online libraries of pictures and clipart, promotional tools, categories including Adult content. Tools are little ungainly and slow. [http://www.theglobe.com] - homestead.com
Allows groups or individuals to create free web sites online. 16 MB, no HTML skills necessary through the use of page templates, drag and drop editing. [http://www.homestead.com] - MSN Home Pages
Customizable templates provided or users can ftp pre-existing pages to the server. 30 MB Free. Space appears to be automatic with a Hotmail account. Theme selection presets the templates to design your page which appear to resemble Yahoo! Groups more than a personal website. [http://homepages.msn.com] - NBCi
XOOM is no more. It has been fully integrated into NBCi and now offers free, unlimited web space! Instructions on HTML, download of several popular HTML editors and other accessory software. Notification when features are being added. (Note: until as recently as March 2001, NBCi and Microsoft were Internet partners. Both are reorganizing their presentations and it appears NBCi walked away with the better stuff.) [http://www.nbci.com] - Netfirms
FREE 25 MB Webspace, FREE Domain Hosting (they don't charge you to use your own if you have one), FREE Online Support, Free Search Submission. Requires their banner. Free URL address = YOURNAME.netfirms.com. Will move your current site. [http://www.netfirms.com] - Free ProHosting
Free virtual hosting. 50MB. FTP account. Page building utility. For a small fee per year, you can have them turn off the banner too. The free sites are intended to entice business to the pay sites by word-of-mouth, where $17.95 a month gets you 200MB, lots more services and unmetered bandwidth. [http://free.prohosting.com] - TopCities
Offering 150 MB of space, sub-domains, guest book, personal message board, counter, form mail, and more. [http://www.topcities.com] - Tripod
50MG Free Webhosting. Lycos Network. Page Builder, file manager, many other features. [http://www.tripod.com] - Yahoo! GeoCities
25MB with the bonus that it is already on the Yahoo! system. Hundreds of Add-Ons and geewiz goodies. Template construction or advance. Upload utilities and FTP. [http://www.oocities.org]
- eBoard
Free online storage of files, photos, and messages. Unique addressing per document/file. 10 megabytes per board/multiple boards possible, maximum file size is 5 megabytes. [http://www.eboard.com] - FreeDrive
20 MB of storage, easy to use, pretty fast to open and upload, you can share whole folders not just single items to non members, can't link photos to web sites, but has a photo preview feature. [http://www.freedrive.com] - Free DiskSpace
Also known as My Space, it offers 300 MB of storage, slow to open and move around, tricky to upload, can only share files with other members, can't link photos. at 300mb its the biggest we know of. A bit of a pain, but if you need lots of space you will ignore the little things. [http://www.freediskspace.com/nd_home.asp]
- Lycos PhotoCenter
25 mb space. Create and manage your photo albums. [http://photos.lycos.com/Photocenter] - Picture Trail
20 mb space, photos can be linked but requires some easy to learn computer skills, one URL will share all your albums, your photos can be made into a free e-card and emailed to people. [http://www.picturetrail.com] - Web Shots
Max space unknown, all albums have a unique URL, photos have a unique URL for using as a link to web sites, easy to use, promotes the sharing of albums and categories. Affiliated with Excite. [http://www.webshots.com/homepage.html] - Yahoo! Photos
25 mb space, need yahoo ID, photos can be linked to web sites, can only share thru yahoo briefcase, easy use, keep in mind that if your yahoo ID gets hacked you could lose this as well. [http://photos.yahoo.com]
From here, the contents of this article will be posted to our Links section. If you would like to add other sites to our listing, please write: CFC_Founders@yahoo.com.
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