I know that not every body can afford good expensive web host like Hostgator, Bluehost, Dreamhost, Arvixe etc. there are quite a number of free good web hosting company with great features you need to setup a medium-scale website. You can use these free webhost to setup a wordpress blog, a personal or business website, name it.
Criteria For Rating
I didn’t just wake up one morning and started drawing up this list. There are some major factors i considered before putting this list of free web host together.
> ✒ Support for PHP & MySQL
> ✒ Size of disk-space
> ✒ Size of monthly file transfer (bandwidth)
> ✒ Good and easy to use control panel
>✒ FTP support
>✒ Top level domain(TLD),
>✒ sub domain and addon domain support.
The list below is in no order.
1. Biz.nf Hosting
This is one of the good free web host around today with great features like; PHP5 & MySQL support, no force ADS, free co.nf and biz.nf domain, 250MB disk space and 5GB bandwidth, 1-click script installer and additional support for CGI/Perl, ASP.NET, Ruby, Python, cURL, and GD library.
2. Awardspace
Great features such as- PHP5 & MySQL support; 250MB diskspace; 5GB bandwidth; 1 domain hosting; 3 subdomain; 1 MySQL database support; no force ADS; Joomla and WordPress Installer.
3. Freehostingeu.com
PHP & MySQL support, No ADS, 250MB free webspace, 4GB monthly data transfer, free eu.pn and me.pn doamin, POP3/Imap, SMTP access, webmail, CGI, Perl and flash support.
4. Byethost.com
They provide good PHP/MySQL support; 1GB diskspace; 50GB monthly transfer(bandwidth); 5 MySQL database; addon doamain and park domain support; Ion Cube and Zend encoder support; 10MB maximum file size; PhpMyAdmin, cron job and 20+ free subdomains.
5. Biz.ly
Offers PHP/MySQL support, 50MB diskspace, 1GB bandwidth, free hosting of own domain, free biz.ly domain, 3 subdomain support.
6. Freehostia
PHP/MySQL support, 250MB diskspace, 6GB bandwidth, 1 MySQL database with 10MB size, 3 POP/Imap emails, easy to use control panel.
7. X10hosting.com
PHP5 & unlimited number and size of MySQL support, unlimited diskspace and bandwidth with cPanel 11, automatic regular backup, with softaculous and fantasticio auto-installer, maximum upload size is 16MB with 64MB PHP memory limit, 2 addon domain, 1 park domain and 2 subdomain option.
8. Appfog
Up to 8 service instances, 100MB storage per MySQL or PostgreSQL instance, 10MB RAM & 6 concurrent connections for Redis, MongoDB, and RabbitMQ instances, 5GB data transfer per month, 100 requests per second, community-based support, Apps limited to *.af.cm domains.
9. Zymic.com
PHP5/MySQL support, 6GB diskspace, 50GB bandwidth transfer per month, native control panel, host unlimited number of websites, NO forced ADS, 3 MySQL database, SQLbuddy for advance MySQL database management, range of subdomains choices and an option to use your own doamin.
10. Xtreemhost.com
2.5GB webspace, 100GB bandwidth, 50MB MySQL space, 4MB file size limit, 1 addon domain, 1 MySQL database, POP mail, webmail and cURL, socket, & Python support.
With the above web host, you can use it to setup your first WordPress blog or any medium-scale website.
Just hope you find this list helpful.