Be careful in your selection of a free hosting provider. Each has their own way of doing things. Some will plaster ads all over your site which can be a great distraction to your visitors. Others will have slow uploading speed and/or very little bandwidth and storage.

Also, the tools they provide for your site maintenance may not be user friendly. If you intend to publish your first website this can make your job more difficult. These are some of the things you need to check out before you sign-up.

- Beginners Guide to Web Hosting

Free website hosting companies

There are many internet companies that offer free website hosting. Not only do they offer free website hosting but they also provide site templates and help in developing your website. This is a great aid to the new webmaster.

- What Do I Need in a Web Hosting Package?

The following links are just a small sampling of the many free web hosts on the web. I selected these because of their unique nature and special value. But, there are a lot of others, search engines can help you to find more of them.

DJ Cafe

The DJ Cafe offers more space and features to web page builders than any other site. They specialize in providing feature rich, high quality web hosting to the music community.

- Choosing A Professional and Reliable Web Host

Fanspace.com

Fanspace-20 megabytes of web space--How much is 20MB? Well, its enough to store about 2000 average sized pages of text, or about 500 good sized photographs. In other words, it is more than enough for most web sites! And it is free!

Angelfire

Angelfire - Build a site for FREE! They supply everything you need. Easy to use tools, personalized URLs, tons of space. It is simple, really. You make the pages. They make it fun.

- The Basic Facts of Webhosts