Free Website Hosting Companies List

[Qwack]

Since alot of times people have asked for free website hosting companies, I thought I would post this just as a reference. I dont want to take credit for this, as I simply copied most of the information thats listed here(from another forum). Hopefully it will be helpful for the new people nonetheless.

secretly, the big reason im posting this is because I dont want to see people switching over to geocities or freewebs which are absolute crap(IMO).

TOP5 hosting sites
I suggest going to these sites first.
1. Byte Host - "Storage Max"
1b. Awardspace
2. 100Webspace
3. Atspace
4. Byte Host - 'Traffic Master'
5. Dalir Networks

Hosting sites list - how it works
WWW vocabulary:
Webspace: The maximum total size of ALL your files on the webhost.
Monthly traffic: The maximum size that can be transferred (upload an download) per month. Please consider that viewing a page is actually downloading it from your webhost , every visitor consumes a little part of your bandwidth!
Subdomain: YOU.host.com , where you can change the YOU part to whatever you like , and that will be your address.
FTP Upload: The ability to upload files via an FTP client (very fast and reliable)
Website Upload: The ability to upload files trough the website (slow and not so reliable)
PHP: The ability to use PHPcode in your sites
MySQL: The ability to use a MySQL database
Perl: The ability to use Perl
CGI: The ability to use the CGI BIN
Banners: shows if there will be banners displayed on every page
Pop-ups: Shows if there will pop up a new window when opening a page on your site.
Max. Filesize: The max size for a file to be hosted on your webserver.

Rating
Webspace: +1 point each 50Mb
Monthly traffic: +1 point each Gb , +5 if it is unlimited
Subdomain: +2 points
FTP Upload: +1 point
Website Upload: + 0 points
PHP: +1 point
MySQL: +1 point
Perl: +1 point
CGI: +1 point
Banners: -3 points
Pop-ups: -5 points
Max. Filesize: -3 points

Hosting sites list

Atspace
http://www.atspace.com/
Webspace: 50 Mb
Monthly traffic: Unlimited
Subdomain: Yes
FTP Upload: Yes
Website Upload: Yes

PHP: No
MySQL: No
Perl: No
CGI: No

Banners: No
Pop-ups: No
Max. Filesize: No
Rating: 8



100Webspace
http://www.100webspace.com/
Webspace: 100 Mb
Monthly traffic: 3Gb
Subdomain: Yes
FTP Upload: Yes
Website Upload: Yes

PHP: Yes
MySQL: Yes
Perl: Yes
CGI: Yes

Banners: YES
Pop-ups: No
Max. Filesize: No
Rating: 9


Dalir Networks
http://www.dalir.net/
Webspace: 50 Mb
Monthly traffic: 500Mb
Subdomain: NO
FTP Upload: Yes
Website Upload: N/A

PHP: Yes
MySQL: Yes
Perl: Yes
CGI: Yes

Banners: No
Pop-ups: No
Max. Filesize: No
Rating: 6,5


Fateback
http://www.fateback.com/
Webspace: 60 Mb
Monthly traffic: Unlimited
Subdomain: Yes
FTP Upload: Yes
Website Upload: Yes

PHP: No
MySQL: No
Perl: No
CGI: No

Banners: YES
Pop-ups: No
Max. Filesize: No
Rating: 5


Stormpages
http://www.stormpages.com/
Webspace: 50 Mb
Monthly traffic: Unlimited
Subdomain: NO
FTP Upload: NO
Website Upload: Yes

PHP: No
MySQL: No
Perl: No
CGI: No

Banners: YES
Pop-ups: No
Max. Filesize: No
Rating: 2


Cjb.cc
http://www.cjb.cc/
Webspace: 50 Mb
Monthly traffic: 500 Mb
Subdomain: Yes
FTP Upload: Yes
Website Upload: N/A

PHP: No
MySQL: No
Perl: No
CGI: No

Banners: No
Pop-ups: No
Max. Filesize: No
Rating: 3,5


Byte Host - 'Storage Max'
http://www.byethost.com/
Webspace: 250 Mb
Monthly traffic: 20Gb
Subdomain: Yes
FTP Upload: Yes
Website Upload: N/A

PHP: yes
MySQL: yes
Perl: No
CGI: Yes

Banners: Yes
Pop-ups: No
Max. Filesize: No
Rating: 13!!!


Byte Host - 'Traffic Master'
http://www.byethost.com/
Webspace: 100 Mb
Monthly traffic: 30Gb
Subdomain: Yes
FTP Upload: Yes
Website Upload: N/A

PHP: yes
MySQL: yes
Perl: No
CGI: Yes

Banners: Yes
Pop-ups: No
Max. Filesize: No
Rating: 10


Byte Host - 'MySQL Pro' and 'Sub Domain Commander'
http://www.byethost.com/
Webspace: 150 Mb
Monthly traffic: 20Gb
Subdomain: Yes
FTP Upload: Yes
Website Upload: N/A

PHP: yes
MySQL: yes
Perl: No
CGI: [green]Yes[/color]

Banners: Yes
Pop-ups: No
Max. Filesize: No
Rating: 9

AwardSpace:
WebSpace: 200 Mb
Your URL: Domain or Subdomain
Adverts: No
Your Ads: Allowed
Scripting: CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl
Email: POP3 and Web-based Email
Upload Methods: FTP, Web
Online Editor: Basic
Installed Scripts: None

Other Features:
Bandwidth limit 5 GB/month
MySQL database
Custom MX Records
Addon domains
File size limit 500 KB

Visit http://www.awardspace.com/free_web_hosting.html to start the registration process.



If you find that any of the details/sites listed above do not match with reality , please reply to this topic so I can correct it.

[LKendter]

The bigger question for me is what is a good tool to build your own web page.

[Qwack]

I would personally suggest learning basic html (Usually a hours worth) and than downloading a html editor. There is alot of free html editors on the web. Once you know the basic code, you can make the website, and the editor will work like a spellcheck, correcting the mistakes [if any] you make. If you dont want to download a html editor, you can work with notepad but it might become a problem if you make a mistake and cant find it .

This is probably enough for a basic website for RB events, if you want to get complicated though, you will probably need to learn more advanced html and css and all the other good stuff.

[Sirian]

This is probably enough for a basic website for RB events, if you want to get complicated though, you will probably need to learn more advanced html and css and all the other good stuff.

Complicated is overrated. Better to put that extra effort in to sharpening your writing or expanding your screenshots. My two bits. 8)


- Sirian

[Ruff_Hi]

secretly, the big reason im posting this is because I dont want to see people switching over to geocities or freewebs which are absolute crap(IMO).

Why are those two crap? Because ... cough ... I use them both. I have found freewebs to be much easier to use than geocities but the free-form text mode does sometimes cause me formatting issues.

[Sina]

I really need to get some webspace for reports as well. I tend to lose my notes or screenshots if I don't write the report right away. Yes, I'm that stupid.
Here's hoping that I'd manage better if I could upload screenshots right away.

How much space will I need if I plan to upload a report for maybe every 3rd game? I usually only have a modest number of screenshots.

[Kylearan]

Hi,

How much space will I need if I plan to upload a report for maybe every 3rd game? I usually only have a modest number of screenshots.

That heavily depends on how much you compress the pictures (using the .jpg format). A full-size screenshot takes about 150k in my reports, most cropped screenshots only need 50k. My reports usually have approx. 30 screenshots, which means that each report takes around 2mb of space for me.

Hth,
-Kylearan

[Sullla]

Complicated is overrated. Better to put that extra effort in to sharpening your writing or expanding your screenshots. My two bits. 8)

Indeed. Everything on my website is created using Notepad and some extremely basic html. People seem to like it plenty though.

[Sina]

So I got an account at byethost and now I'm lost.

I understand that I need to piece something html together and can then upload that so that others can see it.

So far so good.

Now, how do I do this html stuff? Can somebody recommend an editor and a good manual? I'm sure I can learn it, but google so far just confused me more. Easy for blondes would be best. (No, I'm not blonde. Does that matter?)

I guess I can manage learning it in English, but as there are some Germans around here, I wouldn't mind if you could post a link to an explanation in German.

Help would be much appreciated!
I enjoy reading all those reports and would like to give something back for others to read. Probably in the "how not to do it" section though.

[Hiapoe]

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

this is a good one for beginners