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I got started through freedom2surf who did my broadband last year, and gifted me 25Mbs of PHP/mySQL space for nothing extra. Very nice.

Thank you i will cheek it out, i am currently hosting with Btopenworld. I cannot get my PHP to work or ASP.

It is a Pain

I use wiserhosting.com and find them really helpfull, with a good support system - for when you get stuck !!, and they do a budget hosting package for £20 per year with php, my sql etc or £27 for Chilli Soft ASP.

I'm still a bit of a html-er and ain't really used the other stuff yet, but I'd have no problem recommending them for being all round good eggs !!

Thank you for the tips,

Regards
Rees

maybe try this website... http://www.freewebspace.net/ good luck as I guess you get what you pay for (as they say) :?

I'm using 1and1.com. 3 years free, 500mb of space, supports all of the web technologies etc. Still not sure if the deal is that great because I'm new to the hosting world.

Kenny

That is a fantastic deal, 3 years free hosting with those kind of specs anywhere is good! I'm trying to sign up myself but hit problems with the sign-up form; I'm not from the US or Canada... The price of the professional package is a bit pricey (imho) to keep up after that, but then that's gonna be 3 years before you have to worry about it!

Yeah, there was a long discussion about it at another forum where everyone was trying to poke holes in the deal - but no real show stoppers emerged - so I signed up. So far it's not bad - although the admin screens take forever to load - but now I'm skipping those and going command line FTP.

Here's my take. They are going to sign up a whole bunch of people, and like sands through the hourglass, time will eventually expire. If you've invested heavily in development and get a strong site going, you're not likely to bail just because it's no longer FREE. So, they'll end up filtering out all the riff-raff and end up with a handful of new customers.

Not a bad approach if that's what the underlying theme really is.

I do have one question though - with my limited experience in hosting services etc. is the spec below any good?

5,000 MB/month traffic ($.99 per GB for additional traffic)
No limits on simultaneous hits/bandwidth

Thanks,

Kenny

It's free. Of course it's good. And $1 for another Gig? Sounds good to me. Don't know the price of bandwidth with other places.

There is a catch to signup of course - you've got to be resident in America / Canada. Damn.