# What's the best free web-page hosting? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 22, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259 "2002-07-22T19:21:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/1 "2002-07-22T19:21:16Z")
I tried this one about six month ago in GQ and didn’t get many responses, so I’ll give it one more shot. I don’t expect wonderful for free, of course. But Crosswinds keeps losing my stuff, refuses to load my pages on the first try, and gives 2 or 3 pop-ups per page. Anything has to be better. Any recommendations for free personal web-page hosting? Any places I should really, really avoid? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/2 "2002-07-22T19:23:57Z")
Have you tried Homestead? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/3 "2002-07-22T21:50:38Z")
Didn’t homestead stop being free a year or so ago? ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/4 "2002-07-22T22:03:41Z")
I’ve used [www.angelfire.com](http://www.angelfire.com) for a few years. Not perfect, but a lot better than your experiences with Crosswinds. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/5 "2002-07-22T23:52:54Z")
Most of them went to the payment route, its the only way to make it today. 6 months ago the same ones were not out, but if you search the net for free homepage you should have todays list. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/6 "2002-07-23T00:05:52Z")
Wow. That’s the same thing that happens to me with crosswinds. I’ve got half my stuff back at my old previously-abandoned-but-now-partially-reclaimed geocities page and half just sitting in my computer because I can’t make up my mind whether I want to schlep everything back to geocities or go through the trouble of setting up yet another account somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/7 "2002-07-23T04:28:31Z")
Re Homestead: Their price for **basic** webpage service went up to $69.99 for one year! That’s right, I kid you not. There’s no way I’d pay that much money for a site I basically used for storage. Re Geocities: I don’t know if anyone else had this experience, but I discovered that you can’t upload your pages to another site and then delete your Geocities site. I think it has something to do with lack of FTP, but I’m not sure… ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/8 "2002-07-23T07:15:24Z")
I am currently using [http://www.brinkster.com](http://www.brinkster.com) ,which seems reliable so far. [fixed link-Czarcasm] ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/9 "2002-07-23T10:29:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kiz \* > \*\*Re Geocities: I don’t know if anyone else had this experience, but I discovered that you can’t upload your pages to another site and then delete your Geocities site. I think it has something to do with lack of FTP, but I’m not sure… \*\* Yep, no more FTP for free. You can delete your stuff using the Geocities file manager, though. ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/10 "2002-07-23T11:38:55Z")
But at Geocities you can still HTTP for free through Front Page. No flames please. ---
**Author:** ![tirial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@tirial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tirial)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/11 "2002-07-23T15:37:19Z")
I switched to Angelfire from Geocities, and I haven’t had any problems with it. ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/12 "2002-07-23T16:13:38Z")
I wanted to thank everyone for the advice. Thanks, **Hastur** , for suggesting Homestead, but as a couple people pointed out, it is a pay-service now. Brinkster looked okay, though right now I’m leaning more towards Angelfire. I’ll keep Geocities in mind as a third possibility. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/13 "2002-07-23T19:42:17Z")
I use [1dollarhosting.com](http://1dollarhosting.com) one dollar a month. Jury is still out on them. $49 setup. 30 day money back. Not free, but has a cgi-bin. Then I went to [http://www.gkg.net](http://www.gkg.net) & there you can register a name & have it sent to any URL you want, for one year this is $14.99 & free email account too. No ads. Took them less than 24 hours to setup a NEW name & url forwarding for me this week. Cool ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/14 "2002-07-24T15:39:09Z")
I should have done better. Here is what to do, try: [http://www.yabbforum.com/](http://www.yabbforum.com/) click on ‘support’ then ‘community’ then ‘YaBB-Friendly Web Hosts’ Then you can find a list of free hosting places, some have ads & some do not. This depends on the day but this way you get an undated list. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/15 "2002-07-25T19:56:07Z")
Hamish, don’t bother looking - I’ll put your page on the [metrodemontreal.com](http://metrodemontreal.com) server as soon as I get home. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki\_actually](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b2d939/32.png) [@Iteki\_actually](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki_actually)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/16 "2002-07-25T22:49:33Z")
I cannot reveal my excellent free, no-ads, php, cgi, multiple subdomain, ftp, multiple mySql databases server… BUT, I will give you the biggest hint I can, and that is look outside the english speaking realm. There are plenty of online translators that will help you through the sign-up process. Another tip is, ring your ISP. Half the time you have 20 megs storage sitting unused on their servers that came with your account. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-free-web-page-hosting/120259/17 "2002-07-26T13:35:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Iteki(actually) \* > \*\*I cannot reveal my excellent free, no-ads, php, cgi, multiple subdomain, ftp, multiple mySql databases server… > > BUT, I will give you the biggest hint I can, and that is look outside the english speaking realm. There are plenty of online translators that will help you through the sign-up process. > \*\* What happens? If you tell us you have to kill us? Boy was the hint unhelpful. I know a place where you can live rent free with all the free beer you can drink. I can’t tell you where it is but I can give you a hint. Here it is: It’s green :rolleyes: