Need a website for my company, any exceptional free ones?

[TheWorks]

I need good design and free hosting.

Anyone know?

[noob]

First thoughts come to mind are wordpress.com and blogger.com although you're better off paying for some basic shared hosting service and installing wordpress on there with a custom domain name. It's much better than using a free service and it won't cost you a whole lot extra.

[RayJones]

I would use wordpress. Its really simple to use and you can change a lot to make your own. Good luck, cheers.

[bestill]

Unless you want the godaddy banner at the top of your page you're going to have to pay for hosting. I mean you could do a wordpress dot whatever dot com. I would recommend just setting up through wordpress, lots of great themes.

[CGM]

If you want to be taken serious as a 'company', then you need to take serious measures and get your company name bought as a dot com, dot net, or dot org.

Free webhosting generally sucks. Its sluggish, unsecure, limited, and your web presence directly represents your company image.

Do you want to look cheap, like you don't take your company serious, or not trust-worthy? If not, I would say spend the $10 a year for a domain name, and buy some cheap web hosting from a reputable provider.

Just my $0.02

[TheWorks]

If you want to be taken serious as a 'company', then you need to take serious measures and get your company name bought as a dot com, dot net, or dot org.

Free webhosting generally sucks. Its sluggish, unsecure, limited, and your web presence directly represents your company image.

Do you want to look cheap, like you don't take your company serious, or not trust-worthy? If not, I would say spend the $10 a year for a domain name, and buy some cheap web hosting from a reputable provider.

Just my $0.02

Ok I'll spend 10 dollars a year for domain name and buy web hosting from a reputable provider. Any suggestions of where I should get these things.

[noob]

I recommend Bluehost. It's $6.95 per month for hosting and you get your first domain with them free. They charge 2 years up front but overall it's worth the cost.

[CGM]

If you're just hosting a blog, or a small website, most hosts should be fine for you. Just be sure to research them first, because there are a lot of poor-quality hosts there that end up not providing any or good technical support when you need it, bad uptime or slow servers.

Its also wise to stay away from hosts who offer "unlimited space, bandwidth, etc". Why? Its a shady gimmicky business tactic and a false promise. Their is no such thing as "Unlimited web space and bandwidth". If you're site is small, and you plan on keeping it small, one of these hosts will be okay for you. But beware that you're on servers that are way oversold (meaning many many people have sites on that server, sharing the same resources). A lot of these "unlimited" hosts are known for suspending accounts once that account begins to use too many resources. Its like going to an all you can eat buffet, then the manager comes out and tells you to leave after you had three plates of food. His reasoning would be that everyone else in the restaurant has to eat from the same buffet and just because you're a 650lb giant, that you can't have "all you can eat". Get what I am saying? I'm going to have a detailed blog post about it tonight.

One hosting company I know to be very reputable, fast, and have super friendly support is InnoHosting - Web Hosting cPanel 24x7 Support - E-Commerce Optimized Business Hosting USA and UK Web Hosting While their plans are in fact limited, ask yourself, "Am I going to use all of that space?" And then ask yourself again, "Will I really?". Chances are, 1gb of space is PLENTY for most people. Chris and Rameen run the company, and they have a tight ship over there. Great customer service, just overall good quality web hosting.

In fact, I am starting my own hosting company soon. My servers will be leased from Innohosting as they honestly have a great track-record, I have read a countess number of real-user testimonials at WebHostingTalk.com that all praise the company and their services.

But as stated before, if you plan on just hosting a blog or something, any average host with PHP+MySQL should work for you. Let me know if you need help with anything in particular.

[bigwillwws]

Cannot be cheap when dealing with your business. Do it right or don't do it at all. register your dotcom on Godaddy, hire a wordpress professional for like 100 to 500 bucks and your running harder than 80 percent of e-businesses out there. play it right nigga

[CGM]

Terms of Service regarding "Unlimited Hosting" from one of the largest in the game, "HostGator"

Violations of the Terms of Service will waive the refund policy.

7. Resource Usage

User may not:
a) Use 25% or more of system resources for longer then 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
b) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
c) Run any type of web spider or indexer (including Google Cash / AdSpy) on shared servers.
d) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
e) Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client. You may link to legal torrents off-site, but may not host or store them on our shared servers.
f) Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
g) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942, etc
h) Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes. -- A setting that can often be changed from the admin panel of a lot of popular scripts. Always be aware of what your host will and will not allow.
i) When using PHP include functions for including a local file, include the local file rather than the URL. Instead of include("http://yourdomain.com/include.php") use include("include.php")

7b.) INODES -- Important Read This section.
The use of more than 250,000 inodes on any shared account may potentially result in a warning first, and if no action is taken future suspension. Accounts found to be exceeding the 100,000 inode limit will automatically be removed from our backup system to avoid over-usage. Every file (a webpage, image file, email, etc) on your account uses up 1 inode.

Of course, it would still be suitable for some, but not most. And it also goes to show that "Unlimited Hosting" is not in fact unlimited in any way shape or form,

As mentioned above, you can't be too cheap when it comes to your business. You can be on a budget, but if you rely on your website for sales, leads, anything directly related to your business or company than that is your "store front", thats what your visitors see. They shouldn't have to wait for slow page loads, see a boring website or not even see it at all! (If it doesn't load quickly, they may just search another site real quick (I do), if your experiencing downtime (out of your hands, choose a reliable host), etc)

You can learn a lot about how to make a good site, how to good rankings, etc all from here. There are a ton of free resources available to you that you can apply to self-teach yourself a lot of this.

Good luck man.