Well, here's where I'm at so far, on my quest to see if there is actually a free webhost that provides a normal hosting service, but with maybe a low resource allocation. That's all I'm looking for and all you can ask for - if you need more resources than the minimum (in webspace, monthly traffic bandwidth) then I figure it's fair if you have to pay. But it would be nice to find a standard, normal webhost where you could start a site and see if it was viable.
Standard, normal webhosting = a normal server (LAMP server type), no virtual path to root (doesn't need cunning tricks in the htaccess file in order to run a normal blog or CMS with short URLs), a database or two, FTP, and email. Not too hard, you'd think.
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Doteasy free webhosting
This one's OK for HTML sites, no databases so can't be used for a blog etc. Bandwidth is 1GB monthly, so it's very tight, but maybe OK for start-ups. I think 1GB would be about 100 visits per day or something like that.
110MB free webhost
No FTP so I didn't go any further with this one - it would be impossible to run anything other than a small HTML site.
Mister.net free hosting
No database, so it's a non-starter for a blog etc.
So there we go... No joy there so it's on to the next one, izFree hosting, from Keroff's list.