Free (or cheap) Hosting Services (including email)

September 28, 2007 6:52 AM

I am looking for a free hosting service as a mirror for my site. It should also have reliable email (pop and smtp access). Any suggestions?
posted by jonjacobmoon to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Byethost
posted by yoyo_nyc at 6:58 AM on September 28, 2007

Barron Hosting
I use them for my site you can get a plan for $25/year
posted by DJWeezy at 7:27 AM on September 28, 2007

I use DreamHost and love them. The overall opinion of DH is more polarised than the old Apple vs PC debates. They had issues a bit over a year ago with some real instability on about a third (a guess) of their servers. All lot of people were bent out of shape and carry a chip. I never had any outage over an hour here or there. Guess I was lucky.

Their current big promotion is their "birthday" promotion, that lets you pre-pay the first year of service for something like $9.30. 500GB of disk space, 5 TB/mo of bandwidth. You have to use the coupon code in their popup.
posted by jeversol at 9:40 AM on September 29, 2007

Response by poster: Thanks for the responses. I will check them all out.
posted by jonjacobmoon at 10:40 AM on September 29, 2007

Did you check freewebhosts.net? I recently did so I'll save you a little time. Most of the sites there that offer e-mail as part of their hosting packages require you to be an active forum poster.

Come to think of it, this should be easy pickins for most MeFi members.
posted by britain at 8:28 PM on October 15, 2007