Free Website Hosting

There a many free website hosting providers available on the Internet. The two main sources of free Website hosting are:

ISP Web space

 An ISP (Internet Service Provider ) is the company that you use to access the Internet in the UK BT, Onetel, Tiscalli and FreeServe are some of the well know ones.

Almost all ISPs offer free Web space (10-50MB) with your monthly subscription the domain name is a sub domain of the ISP and looks either like yourname.ISPdomain.com or www.ISPdomain.com/yourname.

  They don't usually have banner ads like the free Web hosting providers and so are more suitable for clubs and private use.

They offer limited service depth and tend to be limited to standard Web pages and perhaps a few standard scripts, however this doesn't need to be  a problem as there are many websites that offer these.

The none personalised domain name is usually the main limitation, but it can be overcome using the technique of Website forwarding (however it is not search engine friendly and therefore not recommended).

Free Website Hosting Providers

Free website hosting can be obtained free of cost from a variety of sources such as Yahoo!. The user does not pay for service because it is usually subsidised by banner advertising. Because such sites do not charge, they offer limited service depth and quality of service.