The Top Free Web Hosting Companies by Category

Template driven sites are great when you want to get your content online quickly. These hosts have done all the hard work for you. All you need to is choose a template and customize it with your content.

One of the best sites for this type of hosting is Weebly. Recognized by Time magazine as one of the 'top websites' of 2007, the company offers excellent template based hosting. Their online tool allows you to do everything from your browser - no software to download. Every change is previewed instantly so you know exactly what you will be getting.

http://www.weebly.com

Highly Customizable

If you want to create your own pages from scratch, you will need a site that doesn't limit you to templates. Then you might want to try FreeHostia. This highly rated company offers complete flexibility in creating your site. Advanced users can even take advantage of PHP or Perl scripting.

http://freehostia.com/free_hosting.html

Small Business Hosting

Running your own business? You are going to need web tools that the personal user does not.
Microsoft offers free hosting that includes tools specially targeted to business users. You will be able to mange your documents, track sales, contacts and more - all for free. The only drawback is that while visitors will not see ads, you will still have to put up with some advertising while designing and editing your site.

http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/

Niche Hosting

Many companies offer free web hosting for a particular purpose. The most famous is example is likely to be SourceForge. If you are wanting to host an open source software project, this is the site for your.
http://sourceforge.net/

If you want to host a site about your family tree, try:
http://www.heraldry.communityarchitect.com/

If you wish create a website to honor the memory of someone who has Hosting 411 offers a free service:
http://www.hosting411.info/memorial/

Not Covered

Still not finding the right host for you? Then you might want to browse a list of all the free, ad-free spaces offerings available. Free-webhosts provides a list of sites with details about what they offer. Each site's listing includes a rating and customer reviews.

http://www.free-webhosts.com/no-forced-ads.php