Trap 17 had been the best free hosting experience I've had, by far. There was another really good one, I don't remember what it was called, but you didn't have to post to get hosting and it gave you pretty much the same deal as we have here. It was too good to be true, though, as those sorts of sites usually pack up in the middle of the night and go offline without an explaination to anyone. That happened to me twice befor I got here.

I've also signed up for lots of free space with that place ads on your sites. Tripod's service is good, and they are ok if you've just got a plain html site. You can't get to tricky there. it's just having the top 1/4 of your page taken up by ads and toolbars that is unacceptable. Oh! and the fact that you can't hotlink isn't good.

Many of the smaller places that place ads on your page that I've tried don't offer an awful lot of options for what you can do, either.

i do offer free hosting adide from paid hosting on seperate dedicated servers. Free hosting is somtimes really hard to manage as i have around 200 accounts on one server i keep having to upgrade them toi stop them going down and keeping in with my 100% network uptime. I agree most webhosts are quite scanky by limiting you to like 1 SQL database ect and make you force ads on your site and you dont even chose where to put them. many of them dont even offer cPanel i only know a select bunch including me and trap17 who ofer full features. The only thing i dont allow and the same as trap is shell as i just simply dont trust people - as kid may decide to have a go at shel and mess up the enitre server. I agree with you its so anoying haveing a forced banner or popups displayed.
But trap 17 is probabaly the closest you will find to paid hosting, (there is ahplace but there forums are boring). HTML hosts usually also support php despite what they say as if they didnt support php then there control panels ect would not work.

I agree with most people. Trap 17 is a good free web host. However, I'm not that fond of having to worry about having enough credits to keep my site up and running, but its a small price to pay considering all of my previous free webhosts...

AngelFire-Ads and not enough space

50megs- Was great until they went banner ad happy, without even saying a peep to there members.

AwardSpace- Had a hidden exception. You can't use forums on you pages.

So Trap 17 is kind of like the gold in the fools gold for me, at least for now.

Geocities, Brinkster, and such are okay for small projects, but their ads or text at the bottom can prove annoying and disrupt layouts that you have planned. Trust me. It's okay if you're hosting something small, but an actual site would require alot more thought put forth. Brinkster was okay for me for a while, until I decided it was time to pack up and find a new host.

Trap17 is the best free host, hands down. I'm very glad and thankful that Trap17 offers the services you'd have to pay for with other hosts for free of all things, with no crap that makes the internet annoying like ads, popups, and such. If that's not enough to convince anyone, I'd say the ability to actually talk to mods or admins to get help with any technical issues is pretty sweet, too.

Trap17 owns them all. Many many paid hosts can't say they have half the features and ease of use as Trap17. You can't beat the speed, reliability and Fantastico. Plus the MySql DBs and FTP accounts and many other things you are allowed by the tens. (Not that you would ever need that many, but....)

I've had some scary free host experiences. Like Awardspace, their Cpanel bites. Bad. And their php support is horrible. I use it only for my own quick php testing and stuff. Byethost was fairly slow and had those annoying ads everywhere - other than that, they are quite gracious and give great support and features.

It is kinda tough having to keep up your credits - but it is definitely worth it, for the amazing features.

Let me put it this way... I've been trying to find a decent hosting site for three days now. I've tried SO many and none of them is worth it. One of them actually froze up when I was editing. That's pathetic! Another had an enfoced editor created by the site, and to use it you had to use the widgets tool...but the tool didn't work. The rest? Enforced ads, misleading statements about what you get on a free account, etc...

I'm pretty hopeful about trap17, though. This seems like a pretty solid site and a really cool way to socialize on top of what you get in return for staying active.

The only good free webhost I have ever had, beside trap17 (which is the king of all hosting), was bravenet. Bravenet was a very good host... but I've found something better...!! haha

When i first started with a free host, i wasn't aware about their forced ads, popups and embedded ads in my html code. I hate those sites alot. I've been with at least 3 free hosts on serious projects and all of them sucked, really, they had forced ads everywhere and limited features. They didn't have any php support or mysql. But then i decided to look for a better free host and was searching google for a couple days. Luckily i came across trap17 and i thank them for accepting me and this free host is them. Seriously, i'll recommend trap17 to anyone any day. to tell you the truth i don't think i've come across another fre host like trap17. I don' think any other free host can compare to this one. Really, i love you guys.

*Efrain was here