free web space

# FreeWebSpace.com
A solid, free, ad-supported Web hosting service, FreeWebSpace.com gives you 100 megs of space, along with site promotion and enhancement tools. You can use either their Web-based file manager, or an FTP client, to upload your files.


# FortuneCity.com
Stake your claim at this major free Web space provider that uses a city theme. Some people will probably find this concept appealing; others are annoyed by it, judging from our feedback. Fortune City.com offers 20 megs of space and they've added subdirectory support, making it easier to manage your files.

* FortuneCity.com also offers free Web hosting services in Britain, Germany and Sweden.




# Tripod
The second largest free Web page service (after Yahoo! GeoCities), Tripod gives its members a choice between pop-up ads and embedded ads. You get 20 megabytes of space for your site at this service, which now has over 4 million members and which is owned by search portal Lycos. Here, you have two options: if you're a beginner, you can use the "Quickpage" option if you want Tripod to write your page's coding. If you know HTML coding, you can do it yourself through the "Custom" option.

* Tripod offers support for Microsoft FrontPage extensions, which means that if you own this commercial Web authoring package, you have more flexibility in what you can do with your site, (such as the ability to easily add text searches). However, we've had a number of complaints that Tripod's FrontPage server is slow and buggy.




# Yahoo! GeoCities
A part of search portal Yahoo's empire, GeoCities is the Web's largest free space provider, with over 5 million "Homesteaders." An ad-supported service, GeoCities offers you 15 megabytes of space and 3 gigabytes of data transfer (bandwidth) per month. You start out by staking your claim in a GeoCities "neighborhood" that offers pages with similar themes to yours. You submit an application and are given a password for use in creating your Web site. You may then use the "Yahoo! PageBuilder" utility here to create your home page.

* Like many Web hosters, Yahoo! GeoCities is heavily promoting its premium commercial services these days. However, free hosting is still available here (just look for the "get started with a free GeoCities home page" text link).
* GeoCities has eliminated the problem of its once-cumbersome, lengthy URLs via an improved naming scheme, which means that you can have a shorter URL, such as http://www.geocities.com/zeeprojector.
* Some of our visitors report periodic access woes here. A number of complaints have also been posted on Yahoo! GeoCities' message boards lately about vanishing pages. We've also had complaints that support is difficult to obtain. However, other visitors report that assistance is readily available through the service's "Community Leaders," who may be reached via E-mail or ICQ.




# United.Net.kg
(Note: this site has temporarily halted accepting new free hosting accounts). A free Web hosting service that gives you 15 megs of space (and, in a refreshing change of pace, does not place ads on your pages). United.Net.kg also offers a number of useful features, including FTP uploads, full CGI access, SSI support, PHP4 support, 2-meg MySQL access, stats and more.


# 100MegsFree.com
(This service has temporarily halted accepting applications to its free hosting service). A fully featured Web hoster that offers a generous 100 megabytes of space. You can either upload your existing site to this service or create a new site with their online templates. They also offer features like FTP access, form mail, a forum, guestbook, free E-mail support and more.


# Internet Trash
(Note: this service is no longer offering free hosting). Unlike many Web host providers, which place restrictions on content, these guys say they welcome offensive, tasteless, useless, trashy, crude, rude, lewd, etc. content. (However, no adult content is allowed). Here, you get 20 megabytes of space and FTP access.


# Angelfire
A major free Web space provider that is owned by search portal Lycos, Angelfire offers 20 megabytes of space and supports FrontPage extensions. You may advertise your business here, but you may not have paid advertising banners on your page. Angelfire offers lots of helpful advice for getting you up and running with your own Web site, even if you're new to Web site authoring.


# WebSpawner
WebSpawner is a free online Web authoring system that lets you design and develop customized Web pages in a matter of minutes - without having to learn HTML.


# TerraVista
This service is hosting free Web pages for Portuguese-speaking people across the world. It is sponsored by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. Users are allowed up to seven megs of space and file uploading can be done either via FTP or from your browser. No porn allowed.


# TacoNet
A free Web space provider from Taiwan. They provide you with 6 megs of Web space and free POP3 E-mail. You also get free clip art and CGI scripts (which they provide). Note: you must put their logo on your page.