Hosting opportunites exist galore, and many of the free hosting sites have annoying popups and advertising. I didn't want that on my website, since it seemed to advertise businesses that were similiar to mine and in my neighbourhood.
So I needed free hosting for two purposes. First I needed a place for my site to live, and second, I needed one that could host an online course I'm developing.
This is what I found:
The first one Key to School, located at http://www.keytoschool.org is a free hosting site for Moodle courses. Moodle is a course management system software title. It is also offered for free, and is extremely powerful. It requires a PHP environment and SQL database. These particular requirements made it very difficult for me to host my courses at my home based web server. I'm a geek but not a supergeek. This service made it possible to host my Moodle course. There were limitations on what kind of theme you could use, but custom themes are now available. If you wanted extra modules installed that could increase Moodle's functionality, a quick email to technical support and it's done. Great service for free, and there is no advertising, spyware or popups.
My rating: 4 stars out of 5!
The other, Megabyet, located at http://www.megabyet.com is also free for Moodle but it does so much more. It offers up to five domain names per account for free, free ftp, cpanel functionality and generous bandwidth limits. You can also have up to 50 subdomains, and up to 5 domain names per account. A built-in FTP function and content editor is really cool too.
My rating: 5 stars out of 5!
So this is where my two sites live for now. I do receive gentle requests from megabyet to upgrade to a paid service, but the free one is so full of extras, I see no need to do so.
Coming soon, I'll start reviewing the tools that I've come across that can help you build the website of your dreams at no cost.
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