I am excited to let you know about the new feature we are now offering in my Lorelei Web Forum. We are giving away blogs for free. What does it mean “blogs for free”? In exchange for your participation in the forum, we want to reward the members with blog accounts, which will be hosted on LWblogs.com subdomain.

WordPress blogs is the most popular CMS for websites nowadays, easiest for making money online and unbelievably simple to maintain and use as a publishing platform, as well as secure, reliable and easy to customize for your needs.

• The Free blog account includes:

» Free UNLIMITED Disk Space Your Blog (including UNLIMITED uploads facility)
» Free UNLIMITED Traffic (Bandwidth)
» Latest Version of WordPress 2.3, PHP5, MySQL 5 Reliable Database
» Free Sub-domain Hosting
» Instant Account Set Up
» Private and Commercial Blogs are Welcome
» Easy to use WordPress Control Panel
» Stable Hosting Platform
» Ultra Fast Servers with 99.9% Uptime
» No Hidden Fees or Charges
» Publish Your Own Monetizing Methods, Ads and Banners
» NO FORCED BANNER ADS, FRAMES OR ADVERTS FROM US!

• Total Cost - $0.00 Forever.
  

How free is “free”?

As said above, the blog accounts are given away in exchange for our member’s valued participation in the forum, hence we accept applications from members with minimum of 50 posts and in order to maintain your blog online you need to make around 30 posts in each calendar month once your blog is provided.

• What are the benefits for You?

1. Extra Exposure. LWblogs.com are aggressively promoted on many blogs and sites, and once you set up your account, you will be featured in LWBlogs.com official blog.
2. Infinitely Free. No need to pay for domain and hosting!
3. Free Uploads and Thumbnail generator. You can upload as many images as you want and hotlink them to other servers and forums.
4. Highest Quality Servers — 99,9% Uptime. You are going to be hosted on the save server as toptut.com (this blog), therefore you will enjoy maintaining your fast loading blog that doesn’t go offline like most free hosts do.
5. Pay 0.00$, and Make Money! While the service offered absolutely free, you are allowed to display your own ads of any kind (as long as it’s legal) and make money with ZERO initial investment.
6. NO ADS. No frames, no pop-ups, no Adsense, no ads whatsoever.

• Okay, why is it free then?

It may sound too good to be true for some, but this offer, since we already have a huge hosting plan for our own websites, does not drag us into any additional fees and except domain expenses, promotion and time, we do not investment anything that has to be covered, hence we don’t need to place ads or offer additional services at a cost to cover our own expenses.

Moreover, your participation in Lorelei Web Forum is what we value and seek to encourage, therefore as you can see, it’s your form of paying back for the service.

Although this website is mostly related to hosting, I know many people also use their hosting space online to back up files. Hosting plans are not designed for backing up files as they mostly provide little space and more transfer, assuming the site is visited and not only there to store data. Therefore I’d want to introduce you to online backup, provided by IDrive-E.

This online backup solution is not a hosting plan, it’s designed to protect your MP3s, photos, videos, emails and financial documents, which you can put online absolutely secure (the data is encrypted with 256 bit AES) and fast, using the drag and drop interface. IDrive-E is a leading industry in consumer online backup service and the best advantage is that up to 2GB of your data can be stored absolutely free of charge. You may not always have CD’s to copy the data to or a USB stick handy, however, wherever you have internet access, you can put your files online or, download them to your computer. Let’s say you have material which you’d not want your colleagues or family to see, putting the files online means they will not gain access to these important files, yet you can pull them back into your PC or any other computer, from your IDrive-E account at any time. 2GB of online storage is a pretty impressive starting plan, not forgetting it is free and not a trial, however, if you need more - there are many flexible plans you can purchace and guarantee a bigger amount of GB’s which will wait for you anytime online. Recent enhancements also include ability to create and manage multiple accounts for a small business.

IDrive-E’s mission is - “to save the world, one computer at a time”. I’d highly recommend it, backing up files is so important, and if it’s also free, better save then sorry if you have such a great opportunity!

The following was a sponsored review.

AwardSpace is the free web hosting service provided by ZettaHost solutions. They provide both free and paid hosting, and the main advantage of their free host over others is that they put no ads whatsoever on your website. They allow you to host your domain with them (does not have to be registered with their service), i.e. you get a professionally looking site for 0$ a month. The free plan includes

200MB Disk Space | 5GB Monthly Traffic | 2 Domains Hosting | 5 Subdomains | PHP, Perl/CGI-BIN | 1 MySQL Database | FTP/FrontPage Access | 5 POP3/IMAP E-mails

And some other features… I used this free host ages ago, and know a few people who use it still. I must say that despite some disadvantages of AwardSpace (such as lack of ads, FTP, loads of BW), the uptime guaranteed for free server, never really gets to the promised 99.8%. Your site hasto be images-free, optimized for fastest loading in order to load reasonably fast on this server. If you have huge images, background or downloads, you might face timeouts and very slow server speed often. That is if we don’t mention quite accurate downtimes every once in a while. The server is really down quite often (compared to paid hosts, of course) and since the support is only via forum, I must say you can’t really get your problem solved unless someone in the hosting team will actually bother to fix it. Hostlinking to your own images is disabled.

However, if your site is not business oriented, and downtime does not automatically results in dramatic losses, AdwardSpace could be a great solution for a clean, ads free website, forum or blog.

The service is provided free, and is not supported by ads only because they hope that with time you will upgrade to paid hosting, which is quite cheap yet provides a lot more features and guarantees a better uptime and support.