If you Google “free hosting”, you are likely to see Bravenet in top 10 results. They have been proving both free and paid webhosting for many years now, as well as dominating part of free online services for webmasters such as polls, guestbooks, and many other web tools.

I personally used Bravenet for a few weeks… but honestly I was fed up with the ads on the first day already. Most web hosts place ads on your website, with frames and pop ups, but Bravenet will just shower you with them. The Adsense Leaderboard placed across your header takes up some extra width due to amazing configuration of the frame, as a result most sites are only viewed properly on 19″ monitors. Forget the rule about no horizontal scrollbar at 800*600 resolution if you decide to host with Bravenet.

Among other disadvantages is the little space and bandwidth provided - 1.5GB transfer and only 50MB disk space. Then again, some websites never use this much even during one year.

Then again, if blinking, flash, animated and enhanced with sound advertisement do not bother you, look at the bright side of the deal - the host is free, allows up to 5 Hosted Domains, online site builder (pretty easy to use, by the way) and an FTP account. Myself, I’d not recommend using Bravenet for any monetized website, as having 2 leaderboard ads by the host leaves you with a framed site and ability to add only one advertisements place  yourself. Scripts and SQL and nor supported, so hosting a forum, blog or any dynamic (php based) site is out of the option.