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I just did a quick search for "free web hosting" and got a few starting 
points...

Many/most such services rely on some sorts of banner advertising, 
sometimes restricting your site to be in a frame even, with the 
advertising always showing.  Others will perhaps annoy with multiple pop 
up windows.

But given the price, it would be worth checking out several of them 
before you decide which might suit you.

I just created an account on the first hit I had, just to try it out. 
Though I'm sure there might be some fish hooks further down the road, it 
was pretty painless signing up, and the facilities provided were quite 
full-featured, IMHO, for a free service.

But like I say, I don't have any recent specific experiences with these 
services, just enough to know that they do work, but that "free" doesn't 
necessary relate to "freedom" in this instance...

Nick


On 30/09/11 06:53, Tom Kupp wrote:
> According to Nick Walling ford, "There are a number of free hosting services
> that you could use" since Gramps no longer hosts user sites.  Does anyone know
> who these services are?
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For a personal genealogy site you might want to look a Rootsweb 
Freepages. You have to put up with an Ancestry banner across the top, 
but it's not terribly intrusive. Here's a link to the Freepages terms 
page so you can get some idea hat's allowed and not allowed:

http://accounts.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index.cgi?op=show&page=freagree.htm

Here's my Freepages site so you can see what you get:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~billie0w/index.html

It's nothing fancy, just a basic page/site. That's by my choice, not 
theirs. You can get about as fancy as you wish. Many sites have much 
more "bling" than mine does.

On 09/29/2011 01:37 PM, Nick Wallingford wrote:
> I just did a quick search for "free web hosting" and got a few starting
> points...
>
> Many/most such services rely on some sorts of banner advertising,
> sometimes restricting your site to be in a frame even, with the
> advertising always showing.  Others will perhaps annoy with multiple pop
> up windows.
>
> But given the price, it would be worth checking out several of them
> before you decide which might suit you.
>
> I just created an account on the first hit I had, just to try it out.
> Though I'm sure there might be some fish hooks further down the road, it
> was pretty painless signing up, and the facilities provided were quite
> full-featured, IMHO, for a free service.
>
> But like I say, I don't have any recent specific experiences with these
> services, just enough to know that they do work, but that "free" doesn't
> necessary relate to "freedom" in this instance...
>
> Nick
>
>
> On 30/09/11 06:53, Tom Kupp wrote:
>> According to Nick Walling ford, "There are a number of free hosting services
>> that you could use" since Gramps no longer hosts user sites.  Does anyone know
>> who these services are?


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Hi Tom,
The best one I have found is Rootweb.com.
Unlimited web space, open to the web, all the search engines find it, so
deceased only.

You have to write a begging e-mail to say why you should have one.

A small low key banner ad for Ancestry.com, who own Rootweb, at top and
bottom of the pages.

I have 1600 people on mine.

Others I have seen, some only allow 1 page or have a small Mb limit.

All the best,
Les

On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 13:53 -0400, Tom Kupp wrote:
> According to Nick Walling ford, "There are a number of free hosting services 
> that you could use" since Gramps no longer hosts user sites.  Does anyone know 
> who these services are?

I've used byethost.com (that's not a typo!) for many years, for several
sites. I've had no significant down time, and the support is excellent
with an active user forum which often gives an answer to any problems.

You can have a domain name if you wish, and there are no ads on your
page.

If you need more than the base package, I've also used the monthly
package - no minimum length of contract, just pay US$2.99 monthly.

Dianne