Best Free Website Hosting

2007 Best Free Website Hosting Award – MySite.com

Because of their service, reliability, and ease-of-use, we’ve named MySite.com the Best Free Website Hosting Service for 2007. Launched just over one year ago, MySite.com hosts millions of websites, including sites for top internet brands like Netzero, Juno, and Classmates.com. They offer a wide range of features and tools to enhance your free website and your web hosting experience.

MySite.com Website Features

Sitebuilder Tool: MySite’s easy-to-use sitebuilder tool lets you create a website with just a few clicks. The tool offers a variety of attractive templates, themes, and layouts

Simple Text Editing: MySite’s simple text editing tool looks similar to Microsoft Word. You can use it to edit text and add photos, flash graphics, and even YouTube videos to your website.

Simple Photo Editing: A complete set of online photo tools let you upload multiple images, add captions, and create photo albums for your website. The tool corrects the photo’s size and creates thumbnails automatically.

Widget Support: If you want to include a traffic counter, guestbook, poll, or snippet of your MySpace page, MySite supports the ability to cut/paste HTML code into the Sitebuilder.

Blogging Tools: Instead of signing up for a blog account on a blog site, you can start a free blog on your own domain. The blog tool also includes auto-archiving, calendar navigation, templates, and comment management. As with most blogs, you can easily add photos, videos, RSS feeds, and Digg and Del.icio.us buttons.

Email: Unlike with most free website hosting, you can create multiple email addresses using your own domain names (yourname.com), or subdomain names (yourname.mysite.com), and up to 3 mailboxes for friends and family with individual log-ins and addresses. Webmail users can use a shared calendar, contact list, meeting schedule, task list, and more, all using a format similar to Microsoft Outlook. Each account comes with 2GB of storage, enough to rival Yahoo or Microsoft’s LiveMail.

Advanced Options: If you have some website design knowledge, their free and paid web hosting includes HTML editing and an online file manager.

Domain Names: Domain names can be purchased through MySite or you can use a domain name you already own for free. Unlike other services you aren’t required to upgrade to a paid hosting plan in order to use a “yourname.com” type domain name with your web site. Additional domain names are easily managed through the “domain manager.”

MySite Server Features

Scalability: Free sites from most free web hosting services have slower load times if they receive a lot of visitors. With a free website from MySite, you don’t need to worry about traffic spikes or increased popularity. Their unique clustered server architecture is built to easily handle tens of millions of high-traffic websites. Free sites use the same kind of server as their paid site, which means your site will never slow down because of increased traffic.

Upgradability: If you want to upgrade to one of MySite’s affordable paid web hosting packages, you can do so seamlessly. Your site will continue to be fully available throughout the upgrade and you won’t have to deal with changing servers, migrating web pages, or changing your DNS settings. You can also easily add additional features as needed.

Automatic Back-ups: To ensure continued reliability, MySite automatically backs up your data. You can restore files from a previous backup using a simple tool if you accidentally delete a file.

MySite Helps Your Website Grow

MySite is aggressively planning and launching several new and exciting features in 2007 that will make it an even better choice for free web hosting and paid hosting.

Free accounts are supported by banner ads, but don’t have pop-ups. If you’d like an ad-free site, their $1.99/month plan is the cheapest way to get it.

If you decide to take your website to the next level, you’ll find an array of economical hosting plans that include features like FTP, POP/IMAP email, PHP, MySQL, and CGI support. MySite also offers online marketing tools and custom web design services.

MySite’s service takes your website from testing the waters to swimming laps around your competition, which makes it our choice for the best free web hosting of 2007.