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Now that you have your list of needs and wants where are the affordable web hosts? Standard web hosting packages (no e-commerce) generally fall in the $15-25/month range but you can find numerous free and some low cost web hosts. The web hosts listed here give up to 45 MB of space; 5-10 MB is ample for a small, consulting business. The web hosts marked in bold are the more popular, free, web hosts. Free web hosts tend to require some form of advertising to subsidize their services and some provide upgrades to eliminate the advertising.

With free internet access, the cost for your web presence can be unbeatable!

Angelfire, http://www.angelfire.com/
Web space: 5MB. URL format: http://www.webhost.com/subdirectory/yourname/. Cost: pop-up ads on first page. Upgrades: none. See the evaluation on PC Magazine Online.

B-City, http://www.bcity.com/
Web space: 5MB. Cost: ads on every page. FTP: no. E-mail: no.

BizLand, http://www.bizland.com/
Web space: 35MB. URL format: http://yourname.webhost.com. Cost: pop-up ads on every page.

Crosswinds, http://www.crosswinds.net/
Web space: 25MB. Cost: ads on first page. FTP: no. E-mail: yes.

CyberCities, http://www.cybercities.com/
Web space: ? Cost: free--no ads! FTP: yes. E-mail: yes. URL format: http://www.hostname.com/subdirectory/yourname.

Fortune City, http://www2.fortunecity.com/
Web space: 20MB. Cost: ads at top of each page. FTP: yes. E-mail: yes.

Freeservers.com, http://www.freeservers.com/
Web space: 12 MB. Cost: ads on every page. FTP: yes. E-mail: yes. URL format: http://yourname.webhost.com.

FreeYellow.com, http://freeyellow.com/
Web space: 12MB. Cost: ads at bottom of every page. FTP: no. E-mail: yes.

GeoCities, http://www.geocities.com/
Web space: 11MB. Cost: pop-up ads on every page and watermark. FTP: no. E-mail:yes. Upgrades: available. See the evaluation on PC Magazine Online.

Homestead, http://www.homestead.com/
Web space: 12MB. Cost: No ads, only a small link at bottom of every page. Upgrades: none. See the evaluation on PC Magazine Online (Editor's Choice).

HostSave, http://www.hostsave.com/
Web space: 30MB. Cost: $6.95/mo. FTP: yes, unlimited. E-mail: 5 POP, unlimited e-mail forwarding/alias, autoresponder, catch-all. Traffic: 2000MB/mo. Supports CGI and FrontPage extensions. URL format: http://www.yourname.com.

Icom, http://www.icom.com/
Web space: 45MB. Cost: $8.25/mo. FTP: yes. E-mail: 1 POP, unlimited e-mail forwarding/alias. Unlimited traffic. Supports CGI and FrontPage extensions. URL format: http://www.yourname.com.

ProHosting, http://free.prohosting.com/

theglobe.com, http://www.theglobe.com/
Web space: 12MB. Cost: pop-up ads. Upgrades: available. See the evaluation on PC Magazine Online.

Tripod, http://www.tripod.com/
Web space: 11MB. Cost: pop-up ads on every page. FTP: no. E-mail: yes. Upgrades: available. See the evaluation on PC Magazine Online.

Xoom, http://www.xoom.com/
Web space: 11MB. Cost: weekly e-mails. Upgrades: none. See the evaluation on PC Magazine Online.

For an overview, see PC Magazine Online.

For more business web hosting information, see http://www.businessnet.freeservers.com/step1.html.

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