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 Escalix Free Web Space - This speedy new Web page provider offers six megs of space. Here, you upload and edit your Web page with their easy-to-use "Homepage Manager." Access is quick, thanks to their OC-3 (155 mbps) connection. Members are required to display a standard-sized (88-by-31 pixel) button on their pages. No porn sites allowed. Escalix recently upgraded their servers and service has greatly improved.
 Uncut Productions - This free space provider offers a nice package: two megabytes of space, free counters, free E-mail forwarding, free form mail and (for a limited time) free guestbooks. Here, you get instant access to your new account. There's also a online page builder to help you get up and running quickly. This service doesn't burden your site with any ads (a nice change of pace) and they offer free tech support.
- Internet Trash - Unlike many free Web host providers, which place restrictions on content, these guys say they welcome "offensive, tasteless, useless, trashy, crude, rude, lewd, adult (etc.)" content. What's more, they don't clutter your site with banner ads or pop-up ads. Definitely a change of pace. Here, you get 10 megabytes of space and you upload your content via E-mail or through your Web browser.
- Zy.com - A major, speedy free Web hoster and free graphics provider, Zy.com offers users a "trial" account that gives you four Web pages, with a choice of up to 10 template design styles. It's fairly easy to create professional-looking pages here and they offer a nice variety of graphics for use on your pages. Your Web site address here will be: www.ZyWorld.com/(YourSite). Zy.com also offers users a free E-mail service. Technical support here is above average, our visitors report. (Note: they place their banner on all user's pages).
- Fast Free Webs - Promising new free Web hosting service that offers you 10 megabytes of space (or 30 megabytes, if you get more than 5,000 visitors/day). Offers "unlimited" upload access, data transfer and Web page traffic. (Most free Web hosters that make this claim eventually retract it: here's hoping that Fast Free Webs can break the pattern.) Fast Free Webs also offers a fast server and 24-hour monitoring. You're required to place their banner on your pages.
- Family Point - This cool free service lets you set up a "meeting place" for your family in cyberspace. Just sign up and set up your own space on Family Point and then you can take advantage of features like a calendar for keeping everyone up to date. There's also a place to post your photos, an address book, chat, discussion groups and E-mail.
 Angelfire Communications - A major free Web space provider, Angelfire recently decreased the amount of free Web space it offers from 10 megs to 5 megs. However, if you use graphics from their stock collection, they're not counted against your space limit. This service is paid for by sponsored annoying pop-up banner ads (Thankfully, you can opt to switch them off). You may advertise your business, but you may not have paid advertising banners on your page. Angelfire offers lots of helpful advice for getting you up and running with your own Web site, even if you're new to Web site authoring. This is one of the most reliable free Web hosting services. Note, though, that you can only upload one file at a time and that Angelfire lacks subdirectories.
- Basic Ministries: Free Web space - Here's a free Web space service that is mainly oriented towards Christians. You get five megs of space and there's no pop-up ads to contend with.
- CONK!World - This speedy free Web page provider offers a refreshing change of pace: they display no ads on your site (although you're allowed to run ads yourself). You get one megabyte of space and may use your Web site for any legal purpose, as long as it's not a porn site. With this service, you update your content via your browser, rather than by FTP. Note: CONK!World sites have their own CONK! domain name (for example, if your account name is "user", then your site address here will be http://user.conk.com). Note: CONK!World works only with Netscape 3.x or higher and Internet Explorer 4.0; it does NOT work with IE 3.X. Some visitors report difficulties with getting customer service here.
- Crosswinds Internet Communications - This site offers free ad-free personal Web pages, with "unlimited space," free E-mail and other goodies, like free Majordomo mailing lists. Free Web space for businesses is also available, although for these types of sites, there's a 25-megabyte limit and you must display a banner on your main page, "above the fold." You may upload your page via FTP or with their upload service that you access through your browser. No porn, "warez" (pirated material) or spamming allowed.
 Fortune City.com - Stake your claim at this major free Web space provider that uses a city theme. Some people will probably find this concept appealing; others are annoyed by it, judging from our feedback. Fortune City.com offers 20 megs of space and they've added subdirectory support, making it easier to manage your files. (However, although you get 20 megs, no individual file may be larger than one megabyte). Note: like many services of this type, you must display their banner on your page. We've received many complaints lately about downtime, slow servers and access woes. Many users report difficulties with updating their pages and a lack of tech support.
- FreeDrive - Here's a unique, pioneering free service that gives you your own personal Web hard drive, available anywhere. With FreeDrive, you can easily upload & download any files you choose from anywhere. File uploads can be done with almost all Netscape browsers and Internet Explorer 4.0. (If your copy of IE is before version 4.0, you'll need to upgrade to use FreeDrive.) FreeDrive recently increased the amount of space it offers to 20 megabytes. They've also upgraded their servers and service is much speedier than before.
- Free Sites Network - These people offer 20 megs of Web space and "unlimited" data transfer. You also get server side includes, nightly backups of data, FTP uploading and 24-hour monitoring. No files over 100 kilobytes allowed and no "warez" (illegal software, cracks, serials) allowed.
Note: we've had a few complaints that this service is slow in issuing new accounts. Also, you're required to display a large, slow-loading banner at the top of each page, as well as two smaller thumbnail banners at the bottom of each page.
- FreeTown - Free Web pages available ``for personal or commercial use, providing the content is legal and rated for general audiences.'' Has a Web page creator form that lets you build your page online.
- FreeYellow.com - A fast-growing free Web site provider, Free Yellow offers you a hefty 12 megs of space. There are a number of free Web page enhancements available as well: free animated graphics, a free counter, FTP uploading, free E-mail order forms, a free autoresponder and a "WebSite Wizard," to help you build your pages. FreeYellow.com is also CGI capable (as long as you use their scripts). On the downside, the process of signing up for FreeYellow.com's service is time-consuming and cumbersome. We've recently received complaints from FreeYellow.com users who report problems in updating and accessing their pages at times.
- GeoCities - The largest free Web space provider, GeoCities offers you 11 megabytes of space. You start out by staking your claim in a GeoCities "neighborhood" that offers pages with similar themes to yours. You then submit an application and are given a password for use in creating your own personal home page. You are then able to use GeoCities' file manager utility to create your home page. Or, you may submit your custom home page and GIFs/JPGs graphics files using the "EZ File Upload Utility." You can also upload your Web page and other files using an FTP client such as this. Like many free Web hosters, GeoCities requires members to either display an annoying "pop-up" banner, or a regular banner at the top of their pages.
- GeoCities has encountered some problems lately. Some of our visitors report access woes. We've also had complaints that support is difficult to obtain.
- GeoCities offers a WYSIWYG online HTML editor, which makes it easier for beginners to make pages. They also launched their own search engine, to make it easier to find members' pages.
- In August, a federal agency accused GeoCities of misusing children's personal information by making it available to third parties. In response, GeoCities agreed to settle the case, promising to modify its site.
- The Globe - This major free Web space provider, which claims 600,000 members, offers six megs of space, along with free E-mail and chat. You may create your Web pages here by writing the HTML coding yourself or you may use this service's "PageWizard" to write the coding for you. This service also offers fun, free multimedia Active X objects called "Things" that you can easily place on your page. "Things" come in several varieties, including games, Web site navigation and holiday themes. The Globe reports that it has recently undergone a $20 million upgrade. Coming attractions include more chat rooms, a buddy system with site-wide user searches and an instant "Flash"
messaging service.
- Note that buried in the fine print of the their membership agreement, The Globe requires that you give them a "royalty-free" copyright on your site's content.
- Hypermart - This service offers you a generous 10 megs of space and "unlimited bandwidth" for your non-porn business-related Web site (no personal sites allowed). Hypermart offers you CGI-bin access and supports Microsoft Front Page extensions. We've had complaints that tech support is not easy to obtain here.
- The Icestorm Network - This is a reasonably fast, free Web host service that doesn't burden your pages with annoying ads. You get three megs of space, online Web editing & uploading, E-mail forwarding and free tech support. However, you don't get FTP or Telnet access. No porn or spamming allowed.
- InfoTeam - This site provides free Web space for nonprofit organizations. You get five megabytes of storage space and 200 megs of data transfer per month. However, you're limited to one update per month. Your URL will be http://www.infoteam.com/nonprofit/yourname/ Files must be sent via FTP. E-mail attachments not be accepted.
- MYSP.com - This free hoster offers seven megs of free Web space, with instant activation. Features include free form processing, a free secure sever, free installation help and a free guestbook. They do not display annoying pop-up ads. No porn, "warez," or hate sites allowed. Your URL here will be http://mysp.com/p/yoursite. FTP and FrontPage support coming soon.
- Nettaxi - This service that bills itself as a full-fledged Web "community" offers you a free personal Web site with three megabytes of space, a personal FTP "outbox" and an E-mail account. Nettaxi recently introduced annoying pop-up ads on members' sites. Your Web site address here will be: www.nettaxi.com/citizens/youruserid. Note: some of our visitors report that this service is inaccessible sometimes. We've had complaints about their security features (or lack thereof).
- Ostriches On Line - Free home pages to worthy people and organizations. No commercial sites. They prefer small, (under 150K) heavily-used sites.
- ProHosting - This free Web space provider offers a generous package. Here, you get 10 megs of Web space, one POP3 E-mail account, an FTP account and CGI access. Your E-mail address here will be [email protected]. Prohosting has run into some problems lately. Some of our visitors report access woes from time to time. We've had complaints that it is difficult to get a new account set up here. We've also had many complaints about non-responsive customer support.
- Spree.com - A fast-growing free Web space provider that also offers MLM-type money-making opportunities (we're exploring this ourselves and will be posting a report on our results as soon as we get data). Note: click on the "Your Free Website" link to get your free page. Spree offers other goodies, such as a guestbook, a counter and a directory manager. Spree is also offering a partners program, in which they claim they'll give you commissions for sending traffic their way. We've had a number of complaints about Spree. Visitors have reported access woes. Spree is now posting their pop-up banners on all members' pages.
- Towne Square - Towne Square 2000 is a free on-line publishing system where you can create all sorts of Web pages -- without programming and without any HTML applications running. You can create Web pages just by using your browser. You get three pages as a "guest" here. Towne Square 2000 recommends Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer to take advantage of all of Towne Square's built-in interactivity.
- Tripod - The second largest free Web page service (after GeoCities), Tripod unfortunately subjects its visitors to annoying pop-up advertising buttons, an increasing trend among free space providers. You get 11 megabytes of space for your site. You have two options: if you're a beginner, you can use the "Quickpage" option if you want Tripod to write your page's coding. If you know HTML coding, you can do it yourself through the "Custom" option. Once you've signed up with Tripod, be sure to check with Chris's HTML Tutorial Center for a great step-by-step guide on HTML and Web page making. Tripod now offers support for Microsoft FrontPage extensions, which means that if you own this commercial Web authoring package, you have more flexibility in what you can do with your site, such as the ability to easily add text searches.
- Web International - Another free Web page service. Personal home pages only; no commercial sites. You can build your page via their easy-to-use online page generator.
- WebJump - WebJump offers a generous 25 megabytes of space. It's easy to get set up at this speedy hoster. They also appear to take tech support seriously, although we've had a couple of recent complaints (and WebJump has removed their 1-800 number from their support page). You must display their 150-by-75 pixel banner on each page.
- WebJump strips out your META tags, (meaning that your site cannot be indexed by search engines).
- Your external links will be modified and the page they point to be displayed under WebJump's banners.
- We've had complaints of periodic outages with WebJump.
- WebSpawner - WebSpawner is a free online Web authoring system that lets you design and develop customized Web pages in a matter of minutes - without having
to learn HTML.
- Xoom - Xoom, the people noted for their extensive clipart collections, also offer a very popular (3 million members) free Web page service. Xoom recently increased the amount of free Web space they offer from 5 to 11 megs. You may use your free Web space to build your personal or small business home page. You also get free clip art, chat rooms and E-mail. Note: although Xoom doesn't mention it in their terms of service, they do not allow multilevel marketing (MLM) business pages here. We've had visitors report that their MLM pages were yanked off the system abruptly. Xoom has recently been doing a major upgrade of their servers, which has posed some access problems for some sites lately. Also note that you may not display paid advertising banners on your Xoom pages (although, on the other hand, they don't burden your pages with annoying banners or pop-up ads). You will need an E-mail account to sign up. You can get a free E-mail account here.
- Xoom members have reported recurring access problems lately. some visitors report that they have not been able to update their pages for several weeks.
International Free Web Page Providers:
 The Internet is Easy - (in Chinese) This service offers a whopping 20 megs of disk space, as well as a POP-3 E-mail account, counters and guestbooks. You may upload your pages via an FTP client. Coming soon: VRML, for you virtual reality fans.
 MujWEB - A Czech free Web page provider that offers 250 kilobytes of space.
 Netby - A free Web space provider from Denmark. They offer two megs of Web space, but don't offer CGI access. They don't place banners on your site. Our Danish visitors might want check out Stone's WebWriter for creating their Web pages. It's a fine freeware HTML editor from Denmark.
- PI-Web - A Danish free Web space provider. They provide 300 kilobytes of space, with no CGI. You must place their banner on your index page. Your URL here will be http://www.YOUR-NAME.person.dk.
 Le Village - This is a French free Web host provider. This service also offers free E-mail ([email protected]), a free mailing list, free support, a NetMeeting channel (to chat with other users). Site must be in French.
- MultiMania - This French free Web hoster offers 20 megs of space for your personal or commercial site. FTP access is available. A pop-up banner is displayed every 30 minutes on your pages. Tech support is provided through newsgroups.
 Green Cedars - Here's a free Web page provider for the Lebanese community. They offer three megs of space, with FTP access, stats, counters and more.
 Polbox - This Polish service offers free E-mail and Web space. You get two megs of space for your pages and your site's address here will be: http://www.polbox.com/x/xxxxxxx/
 TerraVista - This service is hosting free Web pages for Portuguese-speaking people across the world. It is sponsored by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. Users are allowed up to seven megs of space and file uploading can be done either via FTP or from your browser. No porn allowed.
 TacoNet - A free Web space provider from Taiwan. They provide you with 6 megs of Web space and free POP3 E-mail. You also get free clip art and CGI scripts (which they provide). Note: you must put their logo on your page.
 MarketNet - U.K. based free Web page service. No graphics or Link Exchange banners allowed here.
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