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The following sites all offer free webspace. There are always rules about acceptable content. Most sites insist you put their banner or a credit to them on every page. Increasingly the free webspace providers pop up an advertising window or banner every time somebody accesses your page. CheapSkate found this so annoying that he stopped using his free webspace at Tripod. (Mind you we've had a report that you can get rid of them by simply by deleting the <HEAD> command from the HTML.)
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EasySpace
You can have 25Mb free webspace from EasySpace. Upload is by FTP so it's a bit more usable than Spree's unlimited space. A banner ad is placed on each page by EasySpace. There are a number of extra-cost options ranging from FrontPage support to full web hosting. Business sites are allowed.
Geocities
Geocities have been around a long time and are now part of Yahoo. now offer 15Mb of free webspace and a free email account. Note though that the free webspace suffers from the plague of popup windows and the mail has to be collected within 7 days or it may be deleted. Sites are in themed areas (such as EnchantedForest, the children's area) which are in fact directories (folders) on the server. As areas expand subdirectories are added with suitably relevant names (eg EnchantedForest/Dell). Your free webspace is allocated a number which works like a street address so the URL of a real webpage might be something like www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/7599. File upload is by FTP.
Tripod
Tripod, now part of Lycos, offer 50Mb of free webspace. They're a friendly bunch but, in common with many other free webspace suppliers theirs suffers the plague of the popup window. You can opt to join a "Pod", which is a group of sites with a common theme. CGI-bin. File upload is by FTP.
Freeserve (UK only)
Freeserve provide completely free internet access to anybody in the UK. (Apart from the cost of local-rate phone calls to their number.) You must use the service at least once every 30 days or your account will be deleted. As part of the deal everybody who signs up gets 15Mb of free webspace with few limitations as to use. Business sites are allowed and there are no tiresome banner ads or popup windows to drive your traffic away. Uploading is by ftp although is only possible when connected to Freeserve (so no uploading from work!). There's also a full POP3 mail service. Freeserve is run by Dixon's Retail Group, who own Dixons, Currys, PC World and mobile phone shop The Link. Funding is by a cut of the local-rate call charges, advertisements on their portal site. Oh, and a 50p/minute charge for the tech support helpline (email support is free). Just pick up a CD-ROM in any of their shops!
Webspace Nirvana! UK users can get unlimited webspace with proper FTP access. Initially you are limited to 100Mb but can have more on request. Note though that you can only FTP by dialling into Free-Online. Like Freeserve, they make their money from a share of the phone call revenue. For once the off-peak rate of 1.5p/minute doesn't seem like too much of a ripoff! Tech support costs 39p/min off-peak 49p/min peak. Users must use the service at least every 30 days to keep their account open. You can signup online if you already have a connection set up and can handle the changes. Otherwise call 0870 70 60 504 for a free CD-ROM.
FortuneCity, previously UK based, now operate a source of free webspace and free email services out of New York City, USA. You can have 100Mb of free webspace. Sites are arranged into themed areas like Geocities.
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