Free Website Hosts

Free web site hosts offer web site hosting services to users who cannot afford paid web hosting and are looking for the very basic web site functions.  These web sites are often simple, easy to build and display ads.  These ads are how free web site hosts earn money.  Unless you switch to a paid service, these ads may be unsightly or take away from the web site you are building.  Overall, free web site hosting is fine if you are doing the basics but beyond that, investing in a paid service is the key to building something that lasts.

The easiest way to find a free web site host is to examine what services you already use.  Many services, such as Yahoo and Windows Live offer services such as Geocities and profiles.  While Geocities is shutting down, it still was part of the Yahoo family of services.  Window Live offer interactive profiles that you can customize much like a free web site.  By examining what services are already at your disposal, you may find they suit your purposes.  If not, you can begin looking elsewhere, such as utilizing a search engine to find the right type of web site features from a free provider.

When it comes down to it, a free web site host can give you the beginning of a web design education.  You can build something simple, see how it grows and learn how to design something bigger.  It can get you started and fuel the fire to learn more about web design, web hosting and the whole process of building a web site from the ground up.  Once you out grow a free web host, you can find a paid one that will do what you need for your web site.  The key is to know you can grow from a free web site and move upwards.  When it comes to web design, the Internet is the limit and there really are no limits on the world wide web.