Free wordpress hosting

WordPress is arguably the most popular blogging platform out there that prolific bloggers prefer to use. The advantage that WordPress has over its compatriots is that it is an open source platform, which means there are thousands of developers who are part of its community and who are constantly refining its various features and adding enhancements all the time. WordPress allows free ad supported hosting of domains which do not allow the flexibility of displaying the ads of your choice or to install custom themes and plug ins. For installing custom themes, plug-ins and go for full customization including a choice of which ads to display on the page, you have to have a hosting space of your own. These hosting services come at a fee and there are many websites that offer these services out there. There are a few free WordPress hosting services which allow you to host your domain for free unless of course you choose WordPress’s own service which has the aforementioned drawbacks.
The two main free WordPress hosting services which allow you to put your files online without charging anything and which also support PHP and MySQL which are integral to hosting WordPress based platform on any server in addition to fantastico and Cpanel. There are many happy users who are using these services and finding them convenient and more over, free. 000webhost supports auto installer facility which allows you to auto install the WordPress platform and associated software like b2evolution, support logic helpdesk, phpBB2, guestbook services from viper, coppermine photo gallery, etc in one click.
This free WordPress host allows for data transfer for up to 100GB and the hosting space is 1.5GB which is comparatively very less than that of paid hosting servers like go daddy etc. There is also FTP support and support for mySQL data bases. It allows 99.9% uptime and also back up services.
Zymic is a relatively new free WordPress host that allows for more data transfer and hosting. is a very popular PHP hosting service among the WordPress community and also offer completely ad free custom domain hosting services. Some of the features of this service are that they provide 5 GB of hosting space and allow for 50GB of data transfer along with PHP, MySQL and PHPmyadmin support. They also offer a control panel, unlimited domains and FTP access. The best part is that these services are advertisement free. Which means that whoever visits your pages wouldn’t be bugged by pop up advertisements or banners other than the ones which you yourself choose for them to see. The user and visitor statistics including daily traffic and other services are also offered along with support. The only drawback is that it does not support fantastic auto installation for WordPress and other scripts.
Ideally using a free WordPress host is not recommended as the demand for such spaces would be enormous resulting in overcrowding and availability of the site or webpage at low bandwidths only. There is also a change that they server might be overloaded by the traffic flow that is generated to your web page or any other page that is hosted on the server. This might cause non availability of your blog. They are however ideal for hosting a personal web log or portfolio and advertisement banners.