where to create and upload website for free

[pspmixer]

im looking at setting up my own busniess online and looking to create a website
where is best place to create and upload the website for free

p.s have a little bit of dreamweaver knowledge too

[TheCoder]

There's loads of 'free' webhosts about but they tend to operate with varying degrees of success. Most are either very slow or insist you include various adds within your site or have some other restriction (a common one is you must make a certain number of posts per month on an associated forum).

You may find there's a webhost provided by your local chamber of commerce (or other local organisation, or even pehaps your local council) specifically set up to promote local business. These can work suprisingly well as long as your requirements are fairly simple (no huge 'flash' animations).

Generally though, webhosts are fairly inexpensive usually costing only a few ? per month for a decent service (1and1.co.uk starter pack ?2.49 per month with 1st 6 months free). These will usually allow much greater control and flexibility on your site.

note, that regardless of webhost, you'll likely need to purchase a suitable domain name. A .co.uk domain will cost you ?3 or so per year (usually 2 years min). You can get free domains (.co.cc or .co.cu etc) but nobody would trust a business with these.

[jaws2]

i would buy a cheap domain to start with if your looking at starting up your own business very cheap, and it will look better, say pspmixer.com, than pspmixerfreesite.com, about ten years ago i built a free website for my other hobby, i remember just setting up free websites on loads of free ones, till i liked the best one just uploaded the site i had built then just closed the others down, but trust me the one i picked (yahoo geocities) it closed down. look how much bandwith you get from them, also remember a lot of people use mobile technology to view the net so test it that way as well, lot of online test sites for the mobile world, just put your site address in after building it, it will let you test/emulate it on ipad ect phones, if you want people to visit your site it will be hard to get up the search engines at first i would say unless you pay them ie google etc, so business cards and flyer's may help spread the word. good look,

ps the coder beat me by a minute on my post

[pspmixer]

i would buy a cheap domain to start with if your looking at starting up your own business very cheap, and it will look better, say pspmixer.com, than pspmixerfreesite.com, about ten years ago i built a free website for my other hobby, i remember just setting up free websites on loads of free ones, till i liked the best one just uploaded the site i had built then just closed the others down, but trust me the one i picked (yahoo geocities) it closed down. look how much bandwith you get from them, also remember a lot of people use mobile technology to view the net so test it that way as well, lot of online test sites for the mobile world, just put your site address in after building it, it will let you test/emulate it on ipad ect phones, if you want people to visit your site it will be hard to get up the search engines at first i would say unless you pay them ie google etc, so business cards and flyer's may help spread the word. good look,

ps the coder beat me by a minute on my post

what if i created my website myself then uploaded it would that be free and better option
id be interested in get my own domain name if i couldnt get a free option
but would need help uploading it either way if it was free or not

edit - if i used .co.cc id be only trying it see how it goes and if it kicks off i could consider using a .com etc

[smirnoff_rules]

https://www.123-reg.co.uk is great . buy a name and use there free webpage maker and hoister , pennys for a website http://www.123-reg.co.uk/instantsite/

[pspmixer]

thanks for that put il like to try free one first and as i say if busniess kicks off can then upgrade to a .com etc

[TheCoder]

Free Web Hosting Services, page 1 - 100 Best Free Web Space

try a selection and see which one suits you.

Before you choose one you may need to work out a rough design for your site and decide what kind of content you want it to include as different hosts may include the ability to handle different kinds of content. For instance, most webhosts are linux based and often dont play well with websites designed with Microsoft products.

To get a free domain name for testing try -

http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en

or
CU.CC - Free Domain Registration + Free DNS Service.

Once you register the free domain name you will need to point it to the proper dns server of your webhost for things to work. You will also likely need to place the proper entries into the dns handler of your webhost.

[pspmixer]

.tk and .cu.cc didnt work

[gazz10]

.tk and .cu.cc didnt work

both are working

what you mean they dont work.

[TheCoder]

.tk and .cu.cc didnt work

They both work fine, i'm presently using half a dozen of them for various things. The registration sites sometimes go down for short periods but its rare they would both fail at the same time.

Edit: Just registered a new domain on the .cu.cc site without problem.

What problem are you having ?

Edit2: The .cu.cc sister site www.cuccfree.org seems to work quite well for a free hosting site. The control panel is reasonably standard and the limits seem generous. Just created a site using the domain I just registered and it was up within 5 minutes

[pspmixer]

il give it another go i get back to you
those other didnt come up as free

[pspmixer]

free sites just keep asking me to sign up to other websites

just want one to upload and host website where i can them put create dreamweaver pages on there

how can i upload changes to it then once uploaded to site

[pspmixer]

got a domain from godaddy now what do i do

[gazz10]

need to update nameserves

so what ever host you are using u put there nameserves in will take 24-28 to propagate.

another free hosting is Servers free – free web hosting servers, servers for free, free server

[gazz10]

also with free domains like cu.cc these are banned on facebook, so u cant promote on there, i noticed that when i was messing about creating a ecommerce site