Readers Respond: What free hosting providers have you used?

There are lots of free Web hosting providers. I have profiles of many of them, but there are certainly ones missing. Which ones have you used and what did you like or dislike about them. Find out about other free Web hosting providers from About.com readers.

Office Small Business Live

Please note that Microsoft are dropping this service for Office 365. This has a 6 month free trial for current users, but is $6 a month.

—Guest CC

Free WebHosting:Knowledgesutra, AstaHost

Following a point system called Mycent instead of the regular post for host, members simply need to post on their favorite topics to earn Mycent. With this Mycent, you can buy any premium web solution from domains, hosting and servers from their sister site computinghost.com I currently got my domain registered through them and have been using logic plan (1 GB space and 10 GB bandwidth) for the last year. I personally feel that their plus point is that you can be members at both www.knowledgesutra.com and www.astahost.com :)

—Guest Visitor X

Better alternative

Byethost.com is the best free web host. No ads. Free 5 GB space and 200GB bandwidth. Great support with PHP and MySQL.

—Guest Shubh

Another free one

Microsoft offers 500MB of free hosting as part of their Office Live Small Business program. I've used it for a couple of dozen clients and it still amazes me that it's free. There are customizable templates; you can even design your site using 3rd party software (like Dreamweaver) and upload your files to a web folder, bypassing their templates entirely. They track visitors to your site and provide free email support and more email accounts than you'd ever want to have to check. There's also a very active user forum where you can get help and tips. What don't I like about it? There's no way to add alt tags to images, font sizes and content layout are limited if you use their templates. More about it here: http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/en-us/pricing

—catinthegarden