If  you have just started learning web design and want to create your first website, it is advisable to use a free web hosting service. You can learn without investing any money and if you build a  successful website, you can also earn enough to purchase paid hosting. A free web hosting service is  usually  supported by advertising  and has limited features. Free web hosting companies will either provide a subdomain (yourname.example.com) or a directory (www.example.com/yourname) where you can upload your files. They allow limited web space, bandwidth and do not provide any customer support or uptime guarantee. Many hosts insert their own advertisements. Paid web hosts will provide space for hosting without any advertisements.

Some free web hosts like Freewebs and Geocities have a basic package for free , and  more hosting space is provided on payment of  a fee.  Some of the large free webhosting companies are Bravenet, Netfirms, Freeservers, FortuneCity, AOL Hometown, Geocities, 50megs, Freewebs, Angelfire, Tripod, ProHosting, GooglePages . Blogger is used to host free blogs but because it is easy to use, many people upload any type of information

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