Like most of the new webmasters my first web host was free web host. In year 2000 there was an article in a computer magazine probably PC Quest about how can you create a website without spending a single penny.

That article fascinate me. At that time I was new to internet, but not new to computer. That article contains list of some free webhosts and free redirection services. I visited the some sites mentioned in article and signed up in geocities and tripod for free webspace. After that with the help of redirection services I shorten my long URL which was provided by these web hosting services.

After using few days the control panel provided by them I got the experience of using tools provided by these sites. Then I decided to create my first website. I signed up space at another free webhost 50megs.com and booked a subdomain travelhill.i8.com, I choose their service because at that time they were providing 50MB space and FTP facilities, whereas geocities had discontinued the FTP facilities for free accounts also tripod did not have FTP facilities for free account. After booking the subdomain I developed my site with the help of frontpage and upload it on my server. I booked another space at 1accesshost.com and copied my site travelhill.i8.com to travelhill.1accesshost.com. My both sites are still active but now I do not use them and rarely visit those sites.

ashok

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