The Free Web Hosting Awards is one of a series of featured Web Hosting Awards which review the top 20 hosts in each segment of the Web hosting market. This review brings you the pick of the most popular and highest-rating free Web hosts.

Our gold award goes to the outstanding service offered by Freeservers. It has become an extremely popular service with over 2 million members.
Their free hosting is sponsored by banner ads which appear on every page.
All free Web hosting accounts come fully equipped with features you may only expect to find in paid accounts including; 50 Mb Web space, 1GB monthly bandwidth, 3 email accounts with spam and virus protection, a file manager and an easy to use site builder tool. 
Limitations on their free accounts include; no FTP (uploads are done with their file manager), and no Web site statistics or reporting and no phone support but if you are happy to work within these guidelines this is an exceptionally worthwhile service.

Fortune City is one of the leading free Web hosts and offer an advertising sponsored free Web hosting service with full FTP, 1GB Web space, unlimited monthly transfer and free blog and site builders.
Name options are limited to names like: members.fortunecity.com/username, and there is no provision for email, but if you can work around these limitations this is quite a generous free Web hosting package.

Doteasy offer cost-free, banner free web hosting with more than enough capacity for the majority of Web sites. They offer 100MB disk space, 1GB bandwidth, free website builder, free hosted blog and gallery, 10 email accounts, 24/7 support and full domain hosting.
Their only stipulation is that you register your domain name with them (or transfer it to tham), and with their registration fee of $25 for a .com name this is a very good deal for this service.

These top picks for free web hosts show quite different offerings and approaches to free Web hosting, with what is right for one person not necessarily suiting another. For that reason it can be worthwhile looking through the whole top 20 list of free hosts, because a different organization's offering may be just the niche that suits you best.

If you don't find what you are looking for here, and you are interested to compare what is available in entry level hosting for a few dollars a month, one of the fastest growing segments of the hosting industry right now is reviewed in the Top 20 hosts under $5 a month 

Alternatively, the Web Hosting Awards have a top 20 listing for all segments and price brackets of the Web hosting market.

I hope the free web hosting top 20 takes you to what you are looking for in the growing world of free web hosts. And if it was useful to you please remember to bookmark the page, it may be the only free Web hosting reference you'll ever need.

The Ed