Free hosting options...

Both of the above are good. But nowadays, if you can't afford the $5-$10/month for hosting, and want to actually establish a business, you probably shouldn't be doing this.

If instead you are just trying to tinker around and figure things out, then both options are good. Just google 'free hosting'.

- J

Yes you can use them for AM, but guardedly. The TOS for Wordpress, Blogger, and Google Sites have set the standard for providing content and a good user experience and not affiliate marketing as the primary objective.

Again, you can pull it off just be selective in your plans.

Giles, the Crew Chief

Free hosting sites tend to attract spammers who expect to get shut down pretty quickly. Ditto for places that offer really cheap hosting. They also frequently give you very limited disk space, bandwidth, and serve up ads with your pages.

I interpret questions like this as follows:

"I really want to start my own business, but I can't find two nickels to contribute to it. Does anybody know of anyplace that I can set up shop for free, make some money, then move into a better spot when I make some money?"

It's like wanting to start a limo service and asking to borrow a stranger's 1978 Chevy Malibu and hoping you'll get some business.

It just makes no sense!

You don't start building a house by saying you can't afford to pour a foundation.

You don't go on a vacation where you plan to sleep in homeless shelters.

Why do you want to start a business when you cannot even afford the single most critical part of the business -- basic web hosting in this case???

What's most amazing about this is ... we're not talking $1000! TEN BUCKS A MONTH is like ... the price of one Happy Meal or a hamburger or even a movie these days. (Cheaper than a movie if you include munchies!)

Most people pay more for their annual car registration than they'll need to spend on GOOD web hosting for a year.

I just don't get it....

If you've got no money for hosting, write articles on EZA and redirect the domains to your affiliate offers.

Not ideal, but better than building a business on free hosting. At least with EZA you get SEO benefits, and if they approve your article, its not likely that they will pull it from underneath you later down the track.

Gavin

there are plenty of FREE hosting there is one I know of called freehostia.com, I never tried it, but heck it out it may help you...

I agree with a lot of these guys - If you don't have the extra $5 to $10 a month for hosting, then I would question the longevity you may have in internet marketing. Not trying to be negative, but IMO, $5 to $10 is incredibly easy to obtain by anyone. If hosting was $50 to $100 a month, then I could see where you're coming from.

When it comes to the game of marketing online and building a busiess (or anything, for that matter), you get what you put into it, plain and simple. If you're not willing to make an investment that is so small (and truly essential if you're in it for the long term), then this may not be the thing for you.

Find a good host and sign up for it. It'll be the best investment you've ever made.

It's pretty tough to make money online if you have nothing to invest/lose but I would say blogger is the best choice out of those. I messed around with a few affiliate things on there and never had any problems. And I DID get hits as well. WP seems to shut down any affiliate shenanigans really fast.

Well, thanks guys for your answers.

Im thinking instead of just jump and try to make something with free hosting, i will invest in some hosting (probably hostgator), and try to make some bucks.

I already had make one sale with clickbank but i couldn't withdrawl the money, and one month after the sale the buyer ask for a refund. So the main question here for me is not the money i didn't have but see that i can make sales.

Now im just gonna start workings, and when available i will get a host.

Once again thank you all.

Weebly offer free hosting for 2 websites, and are reliable in terms of minimal downtime in my experience.

You cannot place ads on the free wordpress blogs either, if i am not mistaken.

Just spend five bucks a month and get a package at Hostgator.
Free hosting means your content is controlled by someone else.

And Wordpress.com will remove your site if you are promoting anything. With Hostgator you can do a 2 click install of Wordpress.

If you are serious about your business then you need to spend a little money in the right places.

Try 000webhost.com. They will also allow you to use your own domain name.

Normally I'd recommend paid hosting, however...
I believe that the FREE hosting option on Weebly is actually *better* than most hosting options where you pay $5-10 a month.

Here are some of their highlights:
Source: Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog

Blogger or Google sites are part of Google Company.
From these two you can use blogger seems to be nicer.
But i recommend the paid hosting. Why?
Because you must have a support in case if something goes wrong and to not "wake up" next day looking at your work destroyed.