Top Free Web Hosting Providers
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Geocities Free Web Hosting
Geocities is a major name in free web hosting providers that provide a seamless service to millions of it's clients worldwide. They have a very easy to use and a very user friendly interface for free web hosting. You can easily sign up for an amount of free web space on their website by simply clicking the free web hosting signup link on their home page. You get your free web hosting account ready in just a few seconds.
You can upload your files from their own web based uploading tool in your free web hosting account. Geocities does put up a banner of their own upon each page of your free web hosting account's web pages. For a small fee, you can easily remove this banner too. Geocities also offers several other features in it's free web hosting service, both paid and free. In all Geocities provides a good platform for free web hosting incase you don't want to pay a price for paid hosting plans.
Tripod Free Web Hosting
Tripod, owned by the Lycos Network allows users to sign up for free web hosting accounts. You can sign up for unlimited number of free web hosting accounts. You can upload files directly via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or use can make use of their easy to use online web based file uploading tool to upload files on your free web hosting account.
Tripod has fast servers but sometimes the servers get too clogged and your free web hosting account might not be accessible or it might show up in a very slow manner. You get several value added service on Tripod's free web hosting services. Similar to Geocities, Tripod also adds a banner of their own, on the user's free web hosting account's web pages. You can also remove these from showing up on your free web hosting account by simply paying up a small one time fee.
Tripod offers a limited time online technical support for free web hosting accounts.
Brinkster Free Web Hosting
Brinkster offers free web hosting accounts on it's Windows based servers. It used to provide completely free web hosting without any banners but just recently it introduced third party advertising on its free web hosting accounts. It offers online web based file uploading tool for it's free web hosting users.
Other Free Web Hosting Providers
There are other several small time service providers as well. Some ISPs (Internet Service Providers) also provide their subscribers with free web hosting on some limited packs. This service requires you to purchase their internet connection packs and the companies provide a free web hosting space for a limited pack and limited account only. You can also subscribe to other web companies that provide free web hosting on their web sites.
Almost all of them use banners of their own advertising network on the user's free web hosting account web pages. They don't offer any online or offline technical support for free web hosting packages. However on paying a one time small fee you can get technical support for a limited time period.
