Free Servers

There are many companies like Yahoo, Excite, or Geocities that offer free space on their web servers. You are allowed to post a few pages that can be accessed through a URL like "http://www.geocities.com/mypage". In exchange for that service, the hosting company will display a banner add on your web site, through which it obtains revenue. Typically, those banner adds can be removed by paying a small monthly fee.

Free servers have an unbeatable price, but you do get what you pay for. Banners tend to be annoying to your visitors, even direct them to your competition (after all, the competition is paying for the add, and you are not paying for the web service). Disk space is limited, unless you pay for the extra space, and bandwidth is "throttled", meaning that download times from your site will not be very good at peak times.

Free servers can be attractive for  a starter site, where budget may be of paramount experience. We can combine a free server hosting solution with some of our web design packages. Please contact us for a free consultation.