As Jason says, most free providers offer the free service simply to entice subscribers to take up their paid hosting. The problem is that the free service creates a conflict of interest for their paid hosting; hence they gradually feel compelled to reduce it’s usefulness in order to push free subscribers to coff up. There is one company, however, which offers only free hosting hence has no reason to holdback on any functionality. Check out my review for their service here: http://www.domain.net46.net/the-best-free-web-hosting.html

Try free-whd.com, It is a good free web hosting directory. I am sure you will find the free web host you are looking for.

Regards

I think you’ll find a number of solutions in the comment section of the post. I’ll lay money on the people in charge of your exchange server did not apply the server side fixes. In the mean time, you can use firefox or opera to avoid the problem.

~J. Pisano

Thanks. I think a lot of people start out with a freehost and then do end of purchasing a plan if they “get into it”. I did a very long time ago… do you remember geocities? It’s still around, but it was one of my first efforts… poor at that! I also tried googlepages for awhile and found it too limiting.

I was “messing” around with Freehostia and was able to install drupal, joomla, and wordpress successfully (granted I had to delete the mySQL everytime I changed because you could only have one). They have most of the high end features in their “free” offering that any other provider -provides for cost.

I think most musicians and music educators will find the “EASE” of wordpress.com and blogger.com very inviting and there certainly are enough features for the casual blogger, but if you want to start experimenting with a more powerful feature set, are technical savvy, and don’t want to pay anything -FreeHostia is a REAL bargain at $0.00.

By the way, your “prolificness” at blogging is a real inspiration to all of us! Keep up the amazing work! I was thinking about you today as I was introducing the Jose White String Quartet today… I thought, I wonder if Jason has played with these guys? Funny how the blogging and bloggers are always on my mind now…

I echo your recommendation of WordPress.com and Blogger.com for those just dipping their toes in the blogging pool. Both services are a great way to get a feel for the terrain without a financial commitment.

Yes it does, as a matter of fact they have a free installer that will add it once you sign up. It really is an amazing free service. There does seem to be some problem with generating smtp mail from within an applicaiton, but I haven’t run into it yet… (They state this somewhere…so I’ve read).

~J. Pisano

Thanks for this information…so I could host a wordpress.ORG site at Free Hostia?
That would be great!

-Ken