Yeah, above, its astahost..........But it is pretty annoying that you always has to post in the foums.....dont like that! Same time, i understand, cause they do have to get something to live of..............im looking around for some good host, and so far, this looks to be the best!

thx astahost!

It certainly is.

I actually like the community here, though I hope more programmers and things will end up here also (especially in some of my main development interests), and it can be annoying if you don't have a way to contribute on anything current or things are going a bit slow.

But sometimes I have questions I am unsure of where they could be answered, I just remember that AstaHost is always here, I can benefit from the points, hopefully contribute here and at the same time have my answers questioned or at least perhaps get a better understanding of my predicament.

I'm not sure if it is just me, but things seem so slow lately, it might be because I usually only check out topics listed on the main page per my usual catergories, rather than go right into them, maybe I should start doing that, or I might miss things again lol.

I dont have a favorite. I like Cpanel and other linux programs. Plesk is way cool for windows users. I think that web hosting should be free for everyone. Why not? I have clearwire and I have some free server software that I use. I would like to put a web site on a server thats always on and that has enough connection rate. In my opinion Bandwidth is just a gimic to alot of dishonest people to bill you for providing them with absolutly nothing in return. Besides, how do we know how many people looked at your page anyway?
For all we know, online counters could be altered remotely.
Hit counters
Web statistics
Page views
ect.
A computer program simply counts the amount of data transmited, which on a text based bbs is close to nothing.
Only advanced web pages with embedded rollovers, large images, and flash videos requires a small ammount of bandwidth. Even CGI, PERL and PHP is so small it almost transfers text data instantaniously.
So who determines how much bandwidth you use? So what? keep the server running, if someone finds it interesting enough to come back again, that is when you have an interesting page worth keeping.

I have not registered any free web hosting yet. But surely I will, after I get enough hosting credits here.

I think the question should not be about favourite free host, but try to judge which is the best (fastest, lowest downtime, best packages, or any other measurements).

I really like astahost, but I haven't used it much yet... I have to say Ismywebsite.

astahost, duh! it's cool because i need to talk with lots of people

Astahost, of couse. Geocities is past it's time, it's no longer 1999, Freewebs instantly sets a bad impression for your site, even if it's coded properly without templates, Gatorhost has had bad reviews, 50webs has low specs, haven't heard of the rest. Though I shall give my opinion on my old host, Core-Fusion. They were a perfect host for a period of time, however, they decided to remove their old system, similiar to that of astahost, in favour of one based on postcount. With it, a decent package cost 65 posts a month. I stayed with them for a while, then (for the better, I'll explain later), a hacker attacked our IPB 1.3 boards whilst going through and defacing many other small boards. I removed him, but decided to move to AEF, a different forum system. A day was spent on a temporary board on a very poor free host, in that time, I gained hosting credits here and started an account. A few uploads later, and I was on AstaHost. I was extremely pleased with it, downtime was low, speed was high, and it had a nice community, so posting on the forums wasn't a chore, unlike the inactive core-fusion forums.

So, to summarize what I've said, AstaHost wins my vote.

i only registered a few minutes ago but i really like the atmosphere in astahost, everyone actually wants to help you answer your question, ive never had that before.

Well, I haven't tried AstaHost yet, but since I hear it is very similar to the hosting found at Trap 17 (both provided by Xisto), I would guess it is the best out of the list. I used to have a Trap17 account and the combination of the features and no ad made it my favorite free host. I've tried FreeWebs and Geocities before and they weren't to good of hosts, however, I loved 50webs. The only reason I no longer use 50webs is because of the lack of support it provides for PHP and MySQL since I am trying to create a Forum. I don't think I've ever tried Atspace or Hostlix, or even heard of either.

asta is te best i love it