Cheap / Free Web Hosts with minimal ads...?

[E.K.Virtanen]

http://www.hostfreeweb.com/webhosting.php
That promises at lots of.

[SJ Zero]

I just bought two years of hosting and domain name from godaddy for like 100USD. 5 gigs of space, 250 gigs of bandwidth. and privacy protection on the whois info. To be honest, I think 4 years of domain and webspace would be a good investment. You'd be shocked how often it comes in handy when you're in school.

Not that it matters. Read THEN post, children.

[na_th_an]

Yeah. Pay for it and it will be good. No cheap hosts are nice anymore.

I use http://www.aruba.it . I got my deal for 35€ (which should be somewhat $42ish) a year and I get unlimited (hahaha) bandwidth and space, with PHP, Perl and five MySQL databases with up to 60Mb (upgradeable). I think this is pretty neat. I think anybody could save $42 a year for something like this. It's like less that $4 a month. Save two cokes and you have it.

[Hard Rock]

Just go to http://www.webhostingtalk.com
There everyone is extremely picky about there host and if it doesnt have 99.999999999% uptime they like to whine, and if support doesnt answer in around 10 minutes they also whine... so if a company actually gets good reviews you know its worth it.

The most popular recommendations these days are:

host gator
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