Free Web Hosting for 3 years!

[magenta321]

The October 2003 issue of Business 2.0 has a two-page ad at pages 6-7 for 1and1.com. The ad offers 3 years of hosting (500MB space, 5x ftp, 5000MB/mo. traffic, 50 POP3 accounts, webmail, chats, forums, NetObjects Fusion 7.0, search-engine registration, 50 subdomains) free, without any contractual obligations, no credit card required (according to the ad). The ad states domain registrations or transfers are $5.99/year. There's not any coupon code -- just a link to the site www.1and1.com and a note that the offer expires 12/31/03.

Site is live as of 9/29.

Limitations of the site that I am aware of:

The sign up process is a pain. Wait for an email, give them your phone number, wait for a call with a pin number, go to webpage, insert pin number, wait for another email to begin using the site. I don't know why it's that way. I haven't received any telemarketing calls as a result, nor any spam email.

This really is free, unless you choose to do any add-ons to the website. You may choose to pay roughly $5 for your own domain name through them. Or you could go through another site, like www.godaddy.com . If you choose not to have your own domain name, that is fine (and free!) but, you will have a bunch of numbers to remember as your url (see mine below)

Here's my very-much-a-work-in-progress site, so you can see that it is legit:

www.s87307057.onlinehome.us

Don't expect much from my site right now. I'm just posting it as an example.

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

had to see what the website was about, I shoulda known

[magenta321]

Only about the most important thing ever

Did you read the (temporarily) titled "Page 2"?

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

Nah, stopped when I saw pink things with flowers on 'em

[emeleel]

Thank you, Margaret! I've been looking for a good deal for our church, and I would also dearly love to have my own domain again. I'll definitely be checking this out!