best free web hosting

Bob Z

What are the best way to get a free website(s) or webpages?

Random

do you want templates so you can put your own website together or just space to host your website?

if you want a google and easy solution try googles offering. i'd maintain that you need to pay for hosting to get any kind of proper service though. provides support too when things go wrong. i like www.hostgator.com and it's not too expensive either.

jpl888

Sign up for your own blog at wordpress.com or similar.

It won't be all your own domain name something like yourname.wordpress.com

Perhaps there are some Irish based ones too?

Bob Z

jpl888 wrote: »

Sign up for your own blog at wordpress.com or similar.

It won't be all your own domain name something like yourname.wordpress.com

Perhaps there are some Irish based ones too?

If i sign up for a blog account and set up a website for something temporary (eg something that is only happening once) and then let let the website go do i then have to set up another account?

Bob Z

Random wrote: »

do you want templates so you can put your own website together or just space to host your website?

if you want a google and easy solution try googles offering. i'd maintain that you need to pay for hosting to get any kind of proper service though. provides support too when things go wrong. i like www.hostgator.com and it's not too expensive either.

Its too learn a bit about web design and also to advertise certaain things(more as a favour than as a job)

What do you mean about templates?

jpl888

Bob Z wrote: »

If i sign up for a blog account and set up a website for something temporary (eg something that is only happening once) and then let let the website go do i then have to set up another account?

No. The account will stay live forever, they don't have a way of deleting accounts, but you can use the same email to sign up for a new one.

See http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

Bob Z

jpl888 wrote: »

No. The account will stay live forever, they don't have a way of deleting accounts, but you can use the same email to sign up for a new one.

See http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

Ok i thought i would have to keep creating new addresses so thats good but why do they keep the account alive?

Is word press better than blogger or blogspot? or any of the others?

jpl888

Bob Z wrote: »

Ok i thought i would have to keep creating new addresses so thats good but why do they keep the account alive?

Is word press better than blogger or blogspot? or any of the others?

Read the FAQ link I posted regarding deletion of accounts.

I'm not sure whether Wordpress would be better per se, but it is licensed under the GPL, which means it is open and transparent.

If you wanted to do something more in depth and you have a machine you can use you could also do a complete DIY hosting job from your own internet connection. I'm sure it would be an interesting learning excercise and you could use Wordpress/Drupal/any LAMP compatible CMS.

gearoidof

An interesting free web host offer is www.frihost.net you gotta post once per day on their forum, and they give you free hosting for it.

I used it for a while, but i wasn't arsed posting on the forum, so I gave up.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Google Sites might be worth a look.

Smartly Dressed

http://oatbox.net/

Bob Z

So could i start off with blogger or wordpress o
(or both) and then move onto a free web hosting and then paid hosting? would it be a bad idea to have all these sites with more or less the same content floaring around?

Bob_Harris

Have used this in the past:
http://www.000webhost.com/