Be it a student , web-professional , company, hobbyist, artist or a
developer ; in today's platform dotcom let world , everyone needs a
website and web-presence. But, renewing , your hosting-service and
domain-name every year can be a little heavy in your pockets specially
if your sites are nor monetising . So, should you not make a website? We
would say, certainly you should and if going through all these payments
is a problem , we would suggest you to go for some free web-hosting
services and free-domain names..
There are plenty of free web-hosting service providers in the market
today and you will see a lot of them with just one google search. But,
are these all actually free? Some of them need you to post of their
forums every fortnight,some load your website with pop-ups and
advertisements; others ask you to add a script to your webpage which
helps them monetise. So, many are not completely free; but are as free
as possible!
Zymic ( http://www.zymic.com/)
It is one of the most popular and highly user-rated free web-hosting service providers
Features
The major advantages include no advertisements and free sub-domain
names. It provides you 6GB disk space per account with unlimited
account per users and 50GB of monthly data transfer which is good enough
space and bandwidth, if you don't have a high traffic website to be
hosted.
It's a very developer friendly hosting services as this supports the
latest version of PHP and upto 3 MySQL Databases. It provides FTP access
and unlimited number of accounts . It provides you a control panel with
basic features and above all this you have a decent free support
000Webhost ( http://www.000webshost.com/)
It is another popular service for free web hosting which is Ad-free.
Features
000Webhost.com has a major advantage of providing Fantastico Script
installer with 10 popular scripts which Zymic doesnot. The premium
version of 000Webhost.com provides almost 50 auto-install scripts. It
provides you with 5 Add-on Domains and 5-Sub Domains , along with 5
email addresses. It provdies 1.5GB space and 100GB data transfer and
thus may be preferred for high traffic website with less storage space
required. It provides you a cPanel with limited features and upto
2MySQL Databases and PHP along with FTP access. And over all this, your
website always remains Ad-free!
Webs (http://www.webs.com)
Webs is another popular service in the banner of Weebly. It provides similar features and a very powerful interface.
Features
Webs provides you with powerful Site-Building tools and templates. It
also gives you Search Engine Optimization(SEO) techniques which can help
you increase the ranking of your website , it supports Mobile Sites. It
gives you 24/7 Customer support and free Domain Name with Email
Addresses. It also provides you detailed traffic stats and SEO features
as Weebly does.
WordPress (http://wordpress.com/)
Wordpress is one of the most used free web-hosting services for Blogging especially due to its mind-blowing themes.
Features
WordPress gives its users an awesome blogging experience with the help
of its free themes. It has up to 3GB of storage space and a decent
interface to easily edit and customize features of your blog. It
supports more than 120 languages and the sites made on WordPress are
easily accessible from mobile also.
Google Blogger ( http://www.blogger.com/)
Google Blogger is as popular as WordPress but lacks a little in the amazing looks that wordpress theme provide you.
Features
It proves an easy interface and custom-built templates customized for
blogging. It gives an option of group blogging and hence the blog can be
authored by more than one individual. It gives up to 1GB of storage
space and supports up to 41 languages.
But similar to WordPress , Google Blogger doesn't provide FTP access and also displays ads.
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