There is a big difference between the two things you have mentioned in your post: hosting and a domain. Hosting is the actual disk space and features you get to put a website onto. A domain is a convenient way for people to get access to your website.
When you apply for hosting here at Trap17, for 10 credits you receive 20MB of space and 500MB of bandwidth. For 30 credits you get 500MB of space and 10,000MB of bandwidth! This is much better than any other free hosting service. As for the many other features you get with either package, check out the
feature list on the main Trap17 site. Once you have hosting, you need to keep posting on the forums, as each day you will lose 1 credit. Trap17 do not place adverts anywhere on your site, and you are free to put your own adverts on your site if you want. The help and support from the community is also great, and something you wouldn't get from any other free hosting provider.
With you hosting account you get a subdomain, in the format
http://USERNAME.trap17.com/. For many people this is a bit too long and slightly unprofessional. For 250 credits you can get a domain (in the format
www.sitenamehere.com) from Trap17. Alternatively you can pay a company a yearly fee and get a domain.
ComputingHost offer pretty cheap domains.
If you have any other questions about either the hosting or domains, feel free to post them and we will do our best to answer them.
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