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There are hundreds and thousands of providers who are giving away free web space. You can utilise these free opportunities to have a website and open an online store by joining one or more of the affiliate programs.
For your purposes you should select a website which allows to operate your business on their free web space. Some of them allow it, quite a number of them don't. The following providers do allow you to run your own business on the free website.
All of these providers offer different features with their free web space. It is very important to know what type of access you will require and how big a site you want to have. For example if you want the visitors to fill out a form and return to you then the provider must have CGI capabilities. Whether you would need to have a web site editor provided by the host or you can design the site yourself is another thing to consider.
Following is a brief list of some of the free providers and the functionalities they provide. You can either choose from one of these or look around over the net for free web space.
| Provider | Features offered | Free Space | FTP | e-mail address |
| Crosswinds | Mail forwarding and POP emails are provided. Banner on first page. | 25 Mb | No | Yes |
| Express Page | Provides templates for builing web pages | Unlimited | No | No |
| Fortune City | A banner is required on the top of every page | 20 Mb | Yes | Yes |
| Free Yellow | Banne at the bottom of each page | 12 Mb | No | Yes |
| Geocities | Good page design tools, Free cliparts, guestbooks, headlines, Pop-up windows on every page | 11 Mb | No | Yes |
| Freeservers | Free domain name (you can choose from freeservers.com, 8m.com, bizhosting.com etc.) Easy Site builder, File Manager, Instant messaging, Guestbook, Counter, Free stats, Banner on top of every page, No CGI | 20 Mb | Yes | Unlimited |
| Hypermart | Free domain name (your site will have the name yoursite.hypermart.net), Autoresponder, Full CGI and Perl access, Secure server for SSL transactions, Choice of banner on every page or pop-up window | 10 Mb | Yes, you will need ftp software | Unlimited |
| Netcolony | HTML and design tutorials, Free stats, Counter, No pop-up windows | 35 Mb | No | Yes |
| Tripod | Pop windows on every page. Good page design tools | 11 Mb | No | Yes |
| Webjump | Banner on top of every page, Your name first in the site name, Full CGI with your own bin directory | 25 Mb | Yes | No |