When you plan to create a website, the second thing (first is Domain name !!) that bother you is where to host the website..
I just recently passed through this phase. I rattled around the internet to find some free web host to host my word press blog. I found many but not satisfied with almost all. Some of them put ads on your site as they host your site for free. Some of them don’t let you use your own domain name and force to use some thing crappy like yourname.theirname.com!! I asked some of my friends who already have websites. They suggested me bluehost and 3ix.

The cost for www.bluehost.com charges 6.95$ per month and provide you with unlimited storage with PHP, MySql. All the contents and services are more then you require. bluehost is also known for very good service.

One of my friend suggested www.3ix.org. charge for basic account is just 1$ per month.!! This is called Excite Plan. In this plan they provide 40 GB of storage and 100 GB of monthly bandwidth. This is also standard PHP, MySql type of hosting so contain all the standard facility. The management of the account is done by famous cPanel. They allow 20 sub domains and 1 parked domain, 0 addon domain. Fantastico! Auto Installer is provided to install web scripts like wordpage, PHPBB automatically.

The only bad thing I found as of now is only 2-mysql databases!! I sent mail to them to increase the number of the dataset but I was told that you will have to upgrade your account to do that and that I don’t want to do. But what else you can get in 1$!!
I recommend this site instead of free hosts. Also you do not get SSH access !! which some times can be needed to use.!!

One more web host www.000webhost.com I found which is free. It allowed more to use your domain name, more number of databases, and also sufficient amount of storage and bandwidth. After registering I found that their Fantastico does not work and they do not know when it will start working. That’s why I move to 3IX.

If you know some good web hosts then let other people know by sharing.