Any good free webhosts?

since there are so many free webhosters, all with their own do's and don'ts, I've chosen to host my own site and use DynDNS to give it an easy to remember url. My media-pc is never off, so I've put a LAMP-stack on there, and my 'tests' all are running there (also gave me a chance to learn more about virtual hosts and stuff)

The only drawback is that DynDNS has severely limited their free services; I used to have 5 free domainnames WITH wildcards (so I could use testing.pitje.ath.cx, for example), but nowadays you can have 2 domainnames and no wildcards. Still enough for my purposes

i think 110mb.com was good

a friend of mine used to use 110mb.com, but he had a lot of downtime, sometimes for 24h on end.
This was quite a while ago though (about 2 years I guess), so it could be better by now.
On the other hand, it's a free service and if you're not upset by occasional downtime, I guess it's a good host (at least I've never heard any bad things from my friend, apart from the frequent downtime).

If it's not to much content, I don't mind hosting some of your tests on pitje.ath.cx (my home machine). If you can wait until this evening (my evening, don't know what time it is in Ontario ), I can setup an ftp- or ssh for you.

edit: fixed typo

Last edited by pitje (2011-02-28 14:59:04)

I use byethost, it works okay as long as you are not trying to set up a forum or something that uses as much bandwidth as one.

Last edited by Rumpelstiltskin (2011-02-28 15:15:34)

no problem

I also use a paid host for more official projects, http://strato.eu, which has very cheap offers and good service. (It's a european host, don't know if they offer services outside the EU)

I recently signed up with 000webhost. They claim good uptime so I'll be interested to see how it goes.

I guess I should post here.

I found  a good alternative that sit in between 'free and crappy' and 'expensive monthly payments'.

www.nearlyfreespeech.net

You pay for what you use. So if your site is tiny in size, you pay less, and if you only get a few visitors, you pay less.

If you think about traditional web-hosting, you can get plans that are $8/mo. for "unlimited" bandwidth and storage. If your not using very much storage or bandwidth, its not a good deal. They are in effect betting that your site will fail / wont have much traffic. NearlyFreeSpeech works the other way around .

There site is pretty comprehensive, so I'll let them do the rest of the marketing

Not only that, but I think they don't really give you unlimited bandwidth, if your site gets huge, they either up their rate, drop you, or experience massive slowdowns.
So they're betting that you won't use $8 worth of internet and not taking the hit if you do.