Hi,

I want to start a website, and don't want to pay. Is there a site that:

1a. Has no ads? If no,
1b. Has ads as pop ups rather than on the website?

2. The site address is short. (geocities, lycos, tripod, etc. is NOT short)
An exmple of short: http://www.cyberian.freehost.com

3. Free forever. Not just the first 3 months or first year.

4. Allow hot-linking/external linking.

5. Doesn't spam my mailbox.

6. Gives out 5 MB or more webspace.

7. Optional: recognizes TNG files.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Its rare that your going to find a site that gives away web space for free without ads, etc.

First of all, check with your ISP, most of the time they give you a free account without any ads, usually 5MB or so.. its a starting point.

Another site I'd recommend is www.freeshell.org as you will get a POP email account, shell account and web space. All you have to do is send them a dollar once to prove your not a spammer, it helps support their servers.. and that's it.

I can say, I have one and its nice to have free shell accounts outside of your own network at times for testing, etc. It was worth the one dollar for lifetime membership.

I don't want a POP e-mail account.

Either 1a or 1b. It can have ads, but just as pop ups as it does not effect those smart enough to get Firefox or other browsers with blockers.

I don't have a credit card, pay pal, or whatever. So I cannot pay for it in any way.

Sorry. If you're looking to put up a serious website, then pay up.

They all put ads on your site in one way or the other. A free provider also may have a lot of restrictions on file types, sizes, severely limited bandwidth and limitations like no FTP.

There will be a catch somewhere. Better to pay a small amount and get a decent paid shared hosting. It's much better that way.

I use http://www.vibrahost.com
It's a little buggy, but once everything is uploaded, there is great uptime and no ads of any sort...
also, no spam

Not a serious site; just going to host minor stuff that probably gets visited less than 10 times a month. For the third time; looking for a free host.

Again, for the third time, I don't care if they have ads so long as it is a pop up because it can be blocked.

That is why I said optional for TNG files. And I didn't say anything about FTP.

I guess, this makes it the forth time: I want FREE!

And the second time, I have no online account such as Pay Pay or a credit card.

Good grief...

Thank you very much!

Try multiservers.com.

They give your yourname.multiservers.com

In multiservers you can choose whether you want Popup or Banner ads.

I understand that you want a free host. But why don't you just consider using one of the more popular ones like Multiservers if you don't want any features?

Trying googling for free hosts, you'll get plenty. There are other forums also in the web where they can provide you with better advice.

www.angeltowns.com

No ads ever.
External linking doesn't work though; if you need to upload avatars or other images to share with others, use www.photobucket.com

Also browse here: http://www.freewebspace.net

Did you check out your own ISP? Most likely you already have web space available to you that you can use with your service to get connected. No ads, part of your monthly service fee, unlimited everything except for space they provide.

And really, people are going to give suggestions, you don't have to be too strict. And a lot of the major free web host providers will have either popups and or banner ads on the sites. Pop up ads are more annoying than any other ad and you'll have to realize that 90% of the world don't have a pop up blocker of some kind..

But take any suggestion, don't get pushy cause someone offers you something you really don't want, we're all doing this and answering your questions for free bud, so don't get too personal cause members might repeat themself a little bit.

Without FTP, how you gonna upload your files to their server? Most ISP's that I know of will not have any other solution available except FTP to get your files up on their servers to host.

Yes, I did, and they do. But I wish to remain anonymous. Plus, I hate to transfer my whole site to another ISP if I had to change.

I know most of them would have ads. No need to state the obvious. Which was stated about 5 times now.

The 90% having to close the pop ups is not my problem; it's their problem. They don't have to click on my site, and they choose to bind themselves on Micro$oft's IE browser.

I appreciate the help. But it gets a bit annoying when people keeps stating the obvious.

I'll just use the site's upload engine.

Cyberian:

If you refuse to do your homework (read: google around) you will definitely have people stating the obvious. It's not that difficult to find a free host.

We are only trying to help you. Do you realise that even in this forum this question has been asked several times? Have you used the search function on this forum as well? You talk about people repeating themselves. When you ask an obvious question expect obvious answers. I repeat again and again -- google is your friend.

That having said, I hope you've found what you need.

P.S. By the way, English has a word called thanks. I hope it won't cost you too much time to use it.

I know you said you don't want ads, but pop-ups would be ok; but www.freewebs.com sounds like a great host for what you are doing. They give you 100megs, allow background music, and all kinds of things. It is completely free, no spam and it just has 1 banner ad at the top of each page and a link to get your own page from them at the bottom. I used to use them, but I left them because I needed to get a domain of my own for commercial reasons. They're the best I've been able to find for free.

So everyone who asks for help in forums are not aware Google exists?

Yes, it is not difficult to find a free host. But I was not only asking for a free host. Please see my first post again, and see what I am looking for. I had 7 things I was looking for. Being free is just 1 of them, and that is #3 in my list.

I have found tens of free hosts in Google. But they are only free for a while and start sending me e-mails asking me to pay or they will shut down my site. Or just give out free accounts to collect my e-mail address and then spam my box. I don't care if they give out free accounts to ad in the site. But I do mind very much if they start selling my e-mail address.

Something that a search engine cannot tell me is personal experience. Users who suggest free hosts had experience with it.

Again, I appreciate the help. But not the obvious statements. Suggesting a free host is not obvious statement. But mentioning the strings attached is.

Did, and I had different requests, so I started my own topic.

If Google can answer all questions, forums like this would not have people asking for help.

I understand there is a Google cult out there. But I do not need to be bombarded by "Try Google!" frequently.


Yes, I did, I took the first free host suggested, Vibrahost.


Please read first post, last line.

Please read the last line of my post posted after the first user who have suggested a free host. (6th post, last line)

I'm glad for you.